‘We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project’, is a new programme from Live Performance Bazaar (Prague, Czech Republic). It brings together artists, arts managers, producers, and scientists with the aim of inspiring creativity and innovation to protect and restore nature, and to connect artistic and scientific communities through conversations across Central Europe and beyond.
This year’s programme began with the ‘(Re)Wilding Waters Residency’, which took place in Finland and introduced participants to events such as the ANTI Festival in Kuopio and the Wild Trippers programme with a focus upon restoration of original landscapes and conservation of aquatic ecosystems.
The ‘Soil Re-imagined Residency’, in collaboration with the Czech Centre Cairo and the Fayoum Art Center in Egypt, focused upon the artistic use of soil and mud, highlighting the connections between ceramics as a craft, sustainability, and architecture.
Finally, the residency at Cove Park will bring together artists and scientists to explore the intersections of food ecology and artistic food practices. Participants will explore the performative aspects of food, with a focus upon working with local ingredients and ecological practices. The artists will engage in hands-on activities, including a group fermenting session led by Suraia Abud. Heidi Hornáčková will give a lecture on seaweed, covering its uses both theoretically and practically.
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We, the Landscape Residency sharing at the Argyll & Bute Springboard Assembly for Creative Climate Action, Cove Park, 2024
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We, the Landscape Residency sharing at the Argyll & Bute Springboard Assembly for Creative Climate Action, Cove Park, 2024
Suraia Abud Coaik
Suraia Abud Coaik is a culinary researcher through food anthropology and food actions and field work. She is interested in food cultures and the diversity of knowledge related to agriculture, cooking and spreading the emotions and memories connected to alimentation.
In the last years Suraia has been involved in fermentation and bio art dimension as a very practical and poetic way to spread scientific researches related to health, food ecologies and food politics. She has been studying and presenting her works in countries like Spain, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Nigeria, Lebanon, France and Czech Republic. In 2024 Suraia is based in Montevideo where develops a brand of fermented drinks articulated with artistic projects in order to highlight human collaborations and critical production.
Heidi Hornáčková
Heidi Hornáčková is an artist, performer and curator focusing on searching for intercultural and transmedia connections while working with different communities, diverse environments and performance art. She investigates conscious and unconscious realms rooted in contemporary visual art and experimental theater. She understands performance as a shared experience in time and space that allows for expanded opportunities for exploring perception and collective memory. Her multidisciplinary projects engage such topics as time, place, language, ritual, dream, color, food, music and human experience in the natural and social worlds.
Magdalena Malinova
Magdalena Malinova is a dancer, researcher with a lot of experience with producing. In her practice she focuses on exploring themes of rest and morning rituals with emphasis on somatic experiences. She’s interested in how to use the sensorial and fictional means of the body and of touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. She invites audiences to engage with the world beyond vision, using touch, taste, smell, and sound to foster deeper connections. She emphasizes creating intimate spaces of care and resilience, offering an alternative to the fast-paced, consumer-driven world.
Marketa Hrdlička Málková
Marketa Hrdlička Málková is a cultural manager and director of REZI.DANCE, an artistic residence house for performing arts in a village Komařice. She studied contemporary dance and theater in Norway and New Zealand. In her work she focuses on the Czech and European independent culture scene. Since 2010, she has been living in the rural area of the South Bohemian region and in 2015, she and her husband founded REZI.DANCE and has been running it since then. Marketa has received the Manager of the Year award (2021) and the DNA Theater award (2022). She serves on grant committees and boards, and since 2023, she has chaired an umbrella organization for contemporary dance Vize Tance. Her work explores the intersection of dance, architecture, and community engagement as a tool for rural development.
Tobiáš Nevřiva
Tobiáš Nevřiva is studying directing, dramaturgy, and civil society in Prague, where he also attends lectures on social and cultural ecology. Tobiáš creates compelling documentary and socially engaged projects and is a producer of @divadlosetkani. Recently, he’s been engaged in participatory community initiatives, such as Christmas Eve Czech-Roma-Ukrainian Community Feast in @nesedimsousedim and Students for Ukraine initiative.
