Traces of Human Presence

By Debora St.

Site specific meditative performance, 2023

Concept, direction: Debora St.

Performers: Mara Ingea, Marie Anna Václavek Krušinová

Space dramaturgy: Debora St., Mara Ingea

Visuals: Darja Lukjanenko

Sound: Huyen Vi Tran

Production: Debora Štysová & Studio Alta

Photos: Darja Lukjanenko, Magdaléna Fedorková

Come with us to a place once abandoned. See the walls that still keep standing? Touch them. Feel their breath. Let them take you deeper within. 

Traces of Human Presence is an intimate site-specific piece of encounter. It doesn't search to explain nor educate. It explores, recalls, remembers. It is a visit. 

We believe a physical environment carries memories of beings that shaped it with their lives. "The still" recalls "that which moved". Have you seen the person that left the room just before you did? Touch the chair. It is still warm. 

You will come and go, just as people did for generations, while their enviromnent and their ways of life keep changing. We invite the visitors to observe the space and for a brief period of time inhabit it with us.

The project travels from place to place exploring and forwarding the history of each building it is hosted in. We research the natural way how people orient themselves in space and how they influence it by simply living there. It consists in a long term exploration of psychology of space in artistic context.