Effugio volume 2

This work is based on a collection of authentic stories of people who have undergone or are undergoing some forms of conscious self-injury. It maps the causes, possible triggers and stressors provoking the feelings of intense sadness, loss of one’s own value, and the feelings of insufficiency, and inducing the urge to punish oneself or simply escape these thoughts and have an empty head for a while.

Some of these people have a one-time experience, for some self-harm has become a ritual to which they resort every time they are confronted with the outside world, just to feel better. What kind of experience do you get when you harm your own body? How much pain do you feel, if any? And what happens next?

The origin dance installation Effugio was focused generally on causes and circumstances that evoke certain emotions which influence formation of self-esteem and lead to self-harming. Effugio volume 2 goes deeper to feelings and emotional changes right before, during and after the self-injury.

Escape, flee, run away – effugio. Have you ever escaped your own mind? Have you battled obsessive thoughts? Or run away from very intense psychological pressure? Do you know what it is like to live in a world where everybody judges you because you cannot do all that?

Dočasná company is a collective of young artists who create a platform for a diverse contemporary concept of art focused mainly on dance and physical theater. Its goal is to change the boundaries between creation for the general public and intellectual art for professional audiences. Besides the traditional work in a theatrical environment Dočasná company brings the art out to an atypical environment in the sense of street art and site-specific projects.