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OBJECT:SHOWCASE

July - October 2022 (Prague, Czech Republic)

OBJECT:SHOWCASE was our summer series where we hosted two performance artists, Adam Ritzke (PL), and Viviana Druga (ROU) to perform a live action under the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.


July 13, 2022 with Adam Ritzke (PL)




One of the most extreme actions enacted from the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto happened on July 23, 2022 at Přístav with action artist Adam Ritzke as part of our OBJECT:SHOWCASE series.

Adam stood naked atop a mound ducked under the canopy of Přístav trees and pierced his body with 50 surgical needles. Each needle was secured to a red string that was then attached to a large tree adjacent from him.

A group of fifteen or so people gathered to witness the performance. And although it began to rain shortly after Adam began piercing every part of his body, the public crowd watched in awe. Before Adam's makeshift stage, the action was screened live on a small TV as it was being filmed.

Once each of the fifty needles were pierced through Adam's body, a smile unfolded across his lips and he gently began to sway the distant tree, with the red string, with the fifty needles, with his naked and contorted body.

The day before the performance, we interviewed him for an episode of OBJECT:VAULT. The interview was strangely calm and warm, juxtaposing greatly with what we would witness the next day.


Materials Used:

1 naked body
50 chirurgical needles
8 mounds of coal
1 small bush
1 medium bush
1 low hanging tree
9 separate species of wildflower
1 projection
1 happening



October 1, 2022 with Vivana Druga (ROU)


Corona stripped off the masks of the world, taking a bit of flesh with the mask in the ripping process. It also put a lot of people into survival modus which is activating the more primitive part of the brain which was maybe more latent during the last decade. Some developed more compassionate skills, others quite the opposite. We are in a process of purging all out what is not working and it very often feels like we don’t get nothing back to fill us again. This is because the emptiness needs to be felt before anything new can be consolidated. The performative ritual is an invitation to let it all out. To learn to purge.

See more of Viviana’s work at her website ︎
/ OBJECT:PARADISE IS THE INDUCTIVE SEDUCTION OF THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT / USE THE LANGUAGE THAT THE PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE CREATE IN THAT MOMENT / CONTEXT IS COTEXT / EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE PERFORMANCE / THE AUDIENCE IS THE POET / DETHRONE, THEN DEMOTE THE POET WHO CAME KNOWING / ELIMINATE THE EGO / DEPLATFORM THE STAGE / ORCHESTRATE THE CHAOS / LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY IN A SINGLE MOMENT, THAT MOMENT /  DOWN WITH DENOTATION /  CELEBRATE THE PARTY THAT LANGUAGE IS / THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER DOES NOT EXIST / LET ALL PLANS GO WRONG / DEMONETIZE LANGUAGE / EMBRACE MISCOMMUNICATION /  PROMOTE THE CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD TO BE EXPERIENCED IN THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT