FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL: Performance - This is not a representation

Name: FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL: Performance - This is not a representation
Start: 2025-10-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Tempo, Nádražní 1272/15, 150 00 Praha 5-Smíchov

Schedule

Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Tempo, Nádražní 1272/15, 150 00 Praha 5-Smíchov | Prague, PR

Come to Leire de Meer's public performance as part of the Fotograf Zone festival, which will take place on October 8 at Tempo in Smíchov! 💙
During their two-month residency (1. 9. – 31. 10. 2025) at MeetFactory in collaboration with Studio ALTA, Leire will continue developing an ongoing research project exploring how a common body can emerge through collective artistic practices. Rooted in questions about the material and emotional conditions that allow such a body to exist and endure, the project approaches artistic collaboration as a site of shared living, creation, and mutual affect. Leire’s methodology is embodied and situated, blurring the line between researcher and subject to embrace a deeply affective mode of inquiry.”
Artist Leire de Meer (they/he/she) proposes a form of non-verbal dialogue in "This is not a representation". This participatory ritual explores the physical and political labor of holding bodies, reclaiming a sense of interdependence.
The audience will receive a set of instructions. The audience will be invited to gently wrap another participant in a vast white cloth, lift them together with others, walk in a circle, and lay them down. You may choose to be wrapped, to help lift, or to bear witness. Through this silent, repetitive cycle, the audience transforms into a community, practicing a direct act of collective care and responsibility. The large white canvas, both tool and witness, becomes a shared membrane, a cocoon, a shroud.
No prior experience is needed. The artist will facilitate a safe and respectful environment for all to participate at their own comfort level.
Please note that photography and video recording will not be permitted during the performance. Thank you for your understanding!