We Have Stopped Communicating with the World Long Ago, 2021
We Have Stopped Communicating with the World Long Ago, is the second part of the research performance-educational project The Transversal Navigation (TTN).
Hands and other limbs are considered as parts of the body. Why then couldn’t all beings who possess a body be considered as parts of a single being? There is no such thing as a disabled body, only disabled sociopolitical systems.
From the perspective of the other, being slow needn’t be considered a weakness, and the weak/weaker needn’t be slow/slower – they merely achieve a different speed than the speed of the medium which they inhabit at a given time. Sickness does not go away, and that is why it needs constant care. To accept one’s vulnerability and fragility in order to reorganize – reprogram relationships, not only towards oneself, but also within a broader social context.
Are our bodies this dangerous biological factor? Is the body itself at the core of this cri- sis? Do we only start paying attention to bodies once they become sick? Are there more types of invisibility? What does it mean to stand next to or near an invisible one? Try to imagine.
Project author: Aleš Čermák Guests: Roman Radkovič Collective Theoretical support: Jakub Albert Ferenc Supervision: Jindřiška Křivánková, Jakub Gottwald, Petr Skala, Matouš Hejl Graphic design: Terezie Štindlová Sound design: Matouš Hejl Translation: Vít Bohal Kurátor Technical support: HAMU Project coordinator & curator: Petr Krátký (GAMU)
Website: The Transversal Navigation (TTN)
External resources:
Accompanying texts to the second part of TTN.
Aleš Čermák, We Have Stopped Communicating with the World Long Ago