Jana Gazdagová

Chitin

Performance Studio

The thesis consists of a work on the boundaries between performance and installation, exploring the limits and contrast between a neurodivergent person’s external expressions and their inner world. Against the background of the social situation, the artist uses a narrated story. Recordings of family testimony lead us to ponder certain questions: to what degree is our own character a defense mechanism formed by stereotypes of thought and movement? How does a society which rejects an individual also form them, and why might that be frightening?