Reality Surfing
devised by PYL collective
2021
Reality surfing is non-narrative visual performance, which proposes to the audience to experience an alternative model of coexistence of people and inanimate entities. it discovers new relations between daily objects through care and engagement with their materiality. Things gain an equivalent value as human bodies. Scenography of the piece comprises a system which exists and functions according to its own rights. It serves and requires a service; it absorbs and triggers; it’s geometry is meaningless as well as a feeling of destruction. Collective PYL invites the public to forget about rational logic and surf into a new reality composed in collaboration with sponges, oranges, machines, ghosts and other unexpected species.
Each of us assemble our own small worlds with the available things and knowledge, using random fragments of reality as stones for building the wall against the wind. When the wall falls, we find ourselves in a vapour landscape which unites collapsed pieces into the new creature. Where we can surf from the cardboard box to the dolphin’s fin by accepting the terms and conditions. Where are moments of entropy and freedom, no matter if we are locked up, locked down or just among ourselves and our surroundings.
“The PYL ensemble creates a free scenic world in which anything can happen. A highly imaginative project about a world that is broken, full of waste and defects. Spatial and almost dance-like and static composition, a field full of possibilities and spontaneity presents play, rather than a direct critical commentary. Reality surfing is a landscape in which people and things coexist without the necessary anthropomorphic principles…” (Terén)
CREDITS
devised by PYL: Světlana Silič, maryia kamarova, Anna Romanova, Theresa Schrezenmeir
Music: Theresa Schrezenmeir
Dramaturgical consultations: Cristina Maldonado, Sodja Zupanc Lotker
Production: Motus, z.s., Alfred ve dvoře, Terén—Pole performativního umění
Special thanks to: Tomáš Procházka, Lukáš Jiřička, Judita Císařová, Matyáš Dlab, Andrey Dabrakou, Michal Mitro, CEDIT
Support: hlavní město Praha, Ministerstvo kultury České republiky, statutární město Brno, Státní fond kultury České republiky, MČ Praha 7 / Art District 7, DAMU
Premiere dates: Praha: 7. 10. 2021, Alfred ve dvoře, Brno: 18. 11. 2021, OC Dornych
photos by Martin Špelda, Alfred ve dvoře
maryia kamarova 