The performance A Small Movement in a Lava Field by Johana Šulík Bártová draws inspiration from the format of a travel slideshow. It is based on records from her journeys to Iceland, where she spent time at artistic residencies. During these stays, she repeatedly experienced fear in the presence of the island’s imagined inhabitants: “At night, in the fog, a formation could always suddenly emerge before me, hidden within an impenetrable cloud of the unseen. What astonishment and terror seized me when, while collecting small stones on the shore of Lake Mývatn, I was startled by the appearance of an enormous mountain emerging from the fog within just a few seconds.”
The combination of image and storytelling invites the audience to follow in Johana’s footsteps and navigate through the memories and stories with which she maps distant places. She is accompanied by live musical interventions from Jakub Šulík.
🪞 Johana Šulík Bártová
Director and dramaturge, photographer, and educator. She studied Photography and Applied Media at the Secondary School of Graphic Arts in Hellichova Street, and later directing and dramaturgy at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre of DAMU in Prague. In 2019, she co-founded the collective FRAS, which primarily focuses on puppet theatre production. Alongside her theatre work, she is also active in photography and educational activities. She regularly works at the Skautský institut in Rybárna and at the cultural centre Vzlet, where she leads analogue and digital photography courses for children and adults. Since 2024, she has been working as an art teacher at ZUŠ Černošice.
🪞 Jakub Šulík
Jakub Šulík is a visual artist, musician, and performer originally from Slovakia. He is a co-founder of the collective FRAS and a graduate of the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU. He works in scenography for both drama and puppet theatre productions. He also creates illustrations and artists’ books. In addition, he performs in several bands, including Holinky, Hubnutí řízené počítačem, and Rotten Hands. He has also composed music for several computer games and theatre productions.