Lake Studios Berlin

Embodied Violin – Jana Kubánková 

Embodied Violin is an experiment of using the instrument beyond traditional playing format in sound making and movement. 
What changes in relationship and roles between me and violin does this process bring? What sound elements can support this path? 
I invite my violin in this performing process not as an instrument, but as a partner body.

seeping – selma leo sandhagen, paula behrens, lina kattThe performance is an investigation of collective intimacy and how to understand the erotic in new ways. What are the conditions for pleasure to emerge? Is it something we need to fight for or surrender into? Through actions such as carrying, leaking, circluding we explore the body as an unstable unit, porous and permeable. With inspiration from texts by Audre Lorde, Bini Adamczak and Astrida Neimanis we explore areas of pleasure like the pelvis and our mouth, how to soften our fists and how to let the transformation of liquids be a mode of connection.

Katya Volkova

Video material: Anna Pronina

My ongoing project is began with curiosity to rethink  the medieval Danse Macabre, which depicted death as the great equaliser. I’ve been reinterpreting this concept through the lens of today’s world, shaped by toxic -ISMs and distorted by hyper-capitalist logic. In this context, death is no longer a shared fate, but one mediated by wealth, power, and necro- and biopolitics—where stark inequalities define who lives and who dies with privilege. This historical symbolism deeply resonated with me, prompting a speculative exploration that has since evolved into a more focused practice.On the Unfinished Fridays, I will present a piece centered around the creation of some haracter that emerged from this inquiry. The work draws on experimental use of historical symbols—particularly the bell  singing—as well as the attribution of ritualistic elements.