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now.here.this.

2019

Yanira and Kathy kneel on cobblestone holding their mylar banner in front of the Industrial Palace of the Prague Exhibition Center. Photo by I-Chen Wang.

Yanira and Kathy stand together, their mylar banner draped between them, overlooking a river and bridge in Prague. Photo by I-Chen Wang.

Kathy Couch shouts while marching in Prague with a mylar banner. Photo by I-Chen Wang.

Yanira crouches while marching in Prague with a mylar banner near a busy road. Photo by I-Chen Wang.

Two performers stand stoically holding long poles attached by a large rectangular piece of mylar in a cemetery. Photo by I-Chen Wang.

now.here.this, created and performed with Kathy Couch, consisted of four multi-hour meditative marches through Prague, Czechoslovakia, honoring acts of resistance. Each march began at a site of resistance and ended with an intervention at the Exhibition Grounds of the Prague Quadrennial. The four sites were the Jan Hus Memorial, the grave of Karel Hynek Macha, the Jan Palach and Jan Zajic Memorial, and Cafe Slavia.

now.here.this was part of Formations at Prague Quadrennial 2019.

Funding

now.here.this was selected and presented by The Formations Project, curated by Chase Angier and Serge von Arx, a program of the Prague Quadrennial.