Multividual

A performative non-solo.

Don’t consider this a synopsis. I no longer want to pretend that I know what I’m doing. The creation of Multividual was initiated by me, Lucia Kašiarová, but despite this, “I” do not feel like an individual (jedinec) – I feel like a Multividual (mnohodinec). What does that even mean?

The starting point for my life and work is “multividuality.” I am interested in how we can approach the permeation of personal and general experiences. Where does one end and another begin? Through my body, voice, and imagination, I search for and apply methods to materialise and consider this permeation – how to retain one’s own autonomy and yet permeate each other in multividuality. Chance, error, superposition, dance, physics, the universe, and movement are starting points for action. Through words and through the body.

How many squares must I draw to create a circle?

How far must I be to see myself?

How close must I be to see the whole?

Multividual is a collective work by a group of artists, using the specific body of Lucia Kašiarová to bring to the stage facts that might be impossible to grasp, creating a space in which past and present do not exist. A space in which they wish, for a moment, to face the unutterable, the unfinished, and the ungraspable together. The meaning, however, is in this facing together, not in a message or conclusion we have arrived at or will arrive at together.

Audience: Adult, Children 10+

The Ufftenživot group has been active on the independent theatre scene since 2013. They create unique projects on the borders of theatre, performance, slam poetry, and puppetry. Their productions are regularly presented at important venues in Prague, the Czech Republic and abroad, as well as at international festivals.

Ufftenživot’s style of work combines disciplines, searching for new paths of scenic expression and pushing the boundaries of theatre as such. The process always begins with a topic. Through research, improvisation, and experimentation, the form of the resulting production gradually crystallises. In addition to a combination of expressive means (movement, speech, puppetry, projections), their work is characterised by an emphasis on the presence of the audience member and the performer, their relationship here and now and a particular nakedness and simplicity of message.