PERFORMANCE, LECTURE | Gutta

GUTTA is an interdisciplinary performance by Polish artist Ludomir Franczak based on the historical figure of Gutta, a Yoruba woman who performed with the "Dahomey Amazons" in Prague in 1892. Tragically, Gutta died shortly after her arrival to Prague, and her remains were later exhumed by anthropologist Jindřich Matiegka and placed in the University collection, later transformed into what is now the Hrdlička Museum of Man in Prague.

Concept, text, scenography, performance Ludomir Franczak Performance, text: Sára Märc

Collaboration: Zuzanna Berendt, Petr Dlouhý, Marcin Dymiter, Ludomir Franczak, Agáta Hrnčířová, Anna Majewska, Sára Märc, Ida Ślęzak

With the help of: Sára Arnstein, Johanna Berg, Dominika Czarnecka, Filip Herza, Ewan McLaren, Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak, Clemens Radauer, Tim Sandweg, Louise Steinman

Partners: Cross Attic/Praha, Studio ALTA/Praha, Pracownia Kuratorska/Cracow, Bazaar/Praha, Labyrinth Gallery/Lublin, Schaubude/Berlin

Free entry

The event will take place in the Czech language.

In the lecture following the performance, Josef Řičář will focus on the comparison of indigenous populations of various regions of Africa to non-human animals, which was used situationally to express the sense of superiority of Europeans during the period of high colonialism and in the context of racial theories. This is part of research focusing on the issue of representations of non-human animals in Czech travel literature about Africa during the period of high colonialism. Řičář is completing his PhD at the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. He also spent part of his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna and at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.