Dramaturgy: Eva Koťátková, Lenka Vráblíková

Kafkárna, The Corporeal Way is a collection of scripts, exercises, proposals and invitations from Czech and international authors in the field of art and eco-critical thinking, who view the body as a perceiving sensory ecosystem through which we feel, act and relate to the world within and around us. The body as an ecosystem is also for us a primary tool for learning, which seeks to cultivate the sensitivity needed to disrupt the deeply rooted boundaries separating the so-called human culture from non-human nature. The venue for this learning, which is based on individual and collective exploration, is Kafkárna: Centre for art and ecology, Umprum. But Kafkárna is also an organism whose functioning we will try to connect to through our own bodies; and a teacher with whom we learn skills such as cooperation and sharing.

Kafkárna, The Corporeal Way draws on the practices of contemporary art, critical pedagogy, system and ecological thinking to experience - and thus realize not only intellectually but also physically - that humans are inextricably connected to the environment and non-human organisms. It shows us how important it is - in light of multiple crises - to develop an ecological imagination: finding ways to be a critical and responsible part of a network of more-than-human relationships with the intention of collectively creating a more just world.

Kafkárna, The Corporeal Way takes inventory of our bodily ecosystems with the aim of starting a two-way process that can help us:

unlearn deeply rooted harmful patterns and habits such as a sense of human superiority (anthropocentrism) or competitive individualism.

and at the same time learn skills that are key to living in a systemic collapse, such as openness to one's own vulnerability, curiosity, critical self-reflection and imagination, the ability to care, share and collaborate.