Performative Reading: The Power of a Collective Voice

The performative reading brings together six voices carrying experiences of systemic oppression, repression, crises, and genocides from different parts of the world. Each of these voices represents a distinct form of resistance, survival, and search for dignity within the destructive mechanisms of states and power structures. The project draws on Stuart Hall’s concept of conjuncture — understood as a historical moment where multiple social, economic, and political crises intersect, yet simultaneously open up new possibilities for solidarity, collective action, and shared experience. At this intersection of struggles lies the potential to recognize that our experiences are interconnected — that they are shared vessels, shared struggles.

The reading will take place on the last day of the exhibition within the installation Prone to Dreaming, which creates a space for pause, listening, and sharing of voices.

Dreaming and imagining another, more just world is a crucial act of resistance. As Robin D. G. Kelley writes in Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (1992), this approach inspires us to think about inclusion and solidarity with all those who have been labeled as “others”, and who strive to rewrite this otherness and transform it into strength. Our long-term struggle for equality and justice carries an experience that today’s world needs to hear.

Concept and curation: Kvet Nguyễn and Marek Hudec

Invited Voices
Marek Hudec – LGBTI+ community
Nawras Rashed – Palestinian community
Oliver Mako – Roma community
Les Paskarenko – Ukrainian community
Jana Juráňová – “unsupported voice” (FPU)