Present: Perfect

"Do not cast the statues of the gods" (Exodus 32 14)

From the Byzantine soldiers charged with removing the portrait of Christ from the Bronze Gate to the Imperial Palace, to the Suffragette attacks on art in British galleries, to today's activists tearing down colonial statues in the West. Alongside the dominant images, icons and narratives, there have always been alternative competing ones, ready to take up the slack at the appropriate moment. And alongside the fanatical iconoclasts uncompromisingly destroying all signs of a hostile ideology, there was a parallel crowd of equally fanatical iconoclasts who defended the existing symbols to their last breath.

Present: perfect is a performance that explores the iconoclastic gestures by which we relate today to the symbols of our own past as the source of our cultural identity. The original performers Irina Andreeva and Tinka Avramova will guide you through our museum, which has many valuable historical objects in its collection - but these only commemorate different versions of important historical events and it is already difficult to distinguish which ones are important, which ones are good to remember and which ones are better to forget. The representative spaces of the venerable memory institution are slowly turning into a bizarre "rage room", where events long past are transformed into the most current present, and forgotten history becomes a rocket launcher for the present.

WARNING: STROBOSCOP is used in the show!
Performing: Irina Andreeva, Tinka Avramova
Cooperating artists: rina Andreeva, Tinka Avramova, Táňa Švehlová
Sound: Matouš Hekela
Light: Václav Hruška
Production: Táňa Švehlová

With support from / acknowledgments: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture, Život Umělce Foundation, SixHouses z.s.