Devised / PYL
PYL is the international group of artists working in the field of theatre and interdisciplinary arts.
The theater group was founded in 2018 by graduates of the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theater in DAMU (Mariya Kamarova, Svetlana Silich, Theresa Schrezenmeir, Anna Gumbold-Romanova). Later, Veronika Svobodová joined. The group operates on the principles of devised theater and approaches staging practice through application of DIY methods, recycling and compilation principles and with a hint of irony.
The group develops its own visual language, which extends the meanings of scenography far beyond the theatre stage. PYL’s works are trying to shift cultural codes, contexts and origins of regular things, while transforming objects to beings and beings to objects. Working in PYL is almost like writing poetry, with no words but objects.
Thank you. Спасибо, 2017
Post-apocalyptic object circus.
Maria Komarova, Anna Gumboldt-Romanova, Ondrej Menousek.
It had been made before PYL was founded, but actually it was the anticipation of PYL.
Photos: K. Hudačinová
Dead End, 2019
A theatre performance that presents a collage of situations inspired by childish ways of listening and observing the city and its environment.
Reality Surfing, 2021
A hybrid project, that combines elements of artistic research, performance, installation, participatory playground, and is open to any kind of visitor — from humans to insects. The project is activating attention towards non-human worlds, discovering new relations between daily objects through their materiality and presence in one space, which gain an equivalent value as presence of a human body.
Materiality on vacation (workshop), 2023
Workshop, presenting strategies that lead to rethinking the view of the materiality of everyday objects and reveal the diversity of narratives that lie behind them. Participants had chance to explore other ways of communicating and being together through collective play with objects.
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