Performance art in Slovakia (1960s-2000s)

Artists

Milan Adamčiak (1946), Ivan Štěpán (1937-86), Róbert Cyprich (1951-96), Peter Bartoš (1970), Ján Budaj (1952), Ladislav Pagáč (1949), Viktor Oravec (1960), Milan Pagáč (1960), Vladimír Kordoš (1945), Ľubomír Ďurček, Peter Rónai, Michal Murin (1963).

Groups

Labyrint Theatre (1978-?, theatre + body art + performance, Adamčiak), Temporary Society of Intensive Living (1979-81, Budaj), Artprospekt P.O.P. (1979-85, performance + body art + happening, L Pagáč, Oravec, M Pagáč), Transmusic comp. (1989-96, Adamčiak, Machajdík, Murin..), Disk Theatre (Uhlár, Karásek), Stoka Theatre (1991-2006, Uhlár), GUnaGU Theatre, Balvan (Murin), Spoločnosť pre šírenie a pestovanie patafyziky, HUBRIS.

Festivals

Sound Off music festival (1995-2002, Bratislava, Šamorín, Nové Zámky, Nitra), Transart communication intermedia art festival (*1987, Nové Zámky, at the peak period 1990-92 performances by Jana Želibská, Milan Adamčiak, Július Koller, Juraj Bartusz, Stanislav Filko, Anna Daučíková, Miroslav Nicz, Ľubo Stacho, Peter Kalmus, Anabela Žigová and others), San Francisco Performance Art Festival (1991, Bratislava), IFEM music forum (1992, 94, Dolná Krupa Castle), FEM music festival (1995, 96, Bratislava), ...Medzi... (1996, Skalica), Multiplace new media culture festival (*2002), Evenings of New Music (*1990, Bratislava), Next music festival (*2000, Bratislava).

Works

Sisyphus' works, 1960s. Milan Adamčiak.
Igelitový zábal, 1968. Ivan Štěpán. Performed at Nocturno Danuvius. Theatre and dance elements.
Music sytola for 6 tape recorders, 2 gramophons and Orpheus' instrumentary, 1969. Milan Adamčiak and Róbert Cyprich. Performed at I. Evenings of New Music in Ružomberok.
zoo-manifests and zoo-actions, 1970s. Peter Bartoš. Used fish, pigeons, chickens.
Water Music, 1970. Milan Adamčiak, Jozef Revall, Róbert Cyprich. Performed in covered swimming pool of a college of JC Hronec in Bratislava.
Dislocation II, 1970. Milan Adamčiak. Performed at the III. international seminar for New Music in Smolenice.
Family Sunday Lunch, 1979. Temporary Society of Intensive Living. At the public space in plattenbau neighborhood in Bratislava.
Kazimír, 1984. Artprospekt P.O.P. with Róbert Cyprich, Vladimír Kordoš, R Matuštík, and Peter Meluzin. Ritual in open country.
Pocta Munchovi a Przybyszewskému, 1987. Michal Murin.
Výkrik pod röntgenom, 1987. Michal Murin.
Sebaexhumácia, 1989. Michal Murin.
Hommage à F. X. Messerschmidt, 1989. Vladimír Kordoš. Performance consisting of Kordoš' lecture on Messerschmidt, projection of his works, preparation for the action and live interpretation of his head-sculptures. Recorded on video. Performed at the Transart Communication festival in Nové Zámky.
12 Minutes, 1989. Peter Rónai. Performed at the Transart Communication festival in Nové Zámky.
Sebaukameňovanie, 1990. Michal Murin.
Try Your Luck, 1992. Peter Rónai. Performed at the Transart Communication festival in Nové Zámky.
Luxus-fluxus, 1994?. Peter Rónai. Antiperformance. Accompanying program to the exhibition Fluxus in Germany 1962-1994 at the House of Art, Brno.

Elements of performance in theatre

Tanap. Disk Theatre.
Impasse. Stoka Theatre.
K.P.B. Stoka Theatre.
Pasole. Stoka Theatre.
Rysavá Jalovica. Stoka Theatre.
Hommage à Fredy Mercury. Stoka Theatre.
Dance of Hypochondre. Balvan.
Archeoteater. Balvan.
Object and Wind. Balvan.
HLT, 1991. GUnaGU Theatre.
K.P.B Recitation of Texts by Viliam Klimáček, 1991. GUnaGU Theatre.
Rekonštrukcia mašiny na myškovanie mozgov. Spoločnosť pre šírenie a pestovanie patafyziky.
Predávanie televízora na nám. SNP. Spoločnosť pre šírenie a pestovanie patafyziky.
Burlaci na Volge pred SNR. Spoločnosť pre šírenie a pestovanie patafyziky.
Krikľavé trúbky ničoty, 1991. HUBRIS.
Odysseus, 1992. HUBRIS.