Alžběta Trojanová

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Czech Republic °1977
research interests: performative walk, Non-Place, environmental art, land art, Site-specific;, non-site, singing
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Alžběta Trojanová has graduated from Masaryk University with MA degree in Environmental Studies. She is a Ph.D. student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the program Theory and practice of theatrical art carrying out arts-based research on the phenomenon of walking as a medium of environmental theatre. She has been a member of the alternative physical theatre group “Alternativní pohybová scéna Propast” in the 1990s and has cooperated with Polish Theatre Węgajty. She performs vocal and instrumental arrangements of historical and folklore music with her Celtic harp and occasionally joins the Javanese gamelan orchestra in Prague. She has worked as a teacher and educator in NGOs focused on environmental education and in Waldorf schools.

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  • Performing the changing landscape (2024) author(s): Alžběta Trojanová published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    This exposition refers to arts-based research on simultaneous performative walking and singing practice in a changing environment. The act of walking is put in the context of landscape and singing representing two aspects of relation to the environment – inner and outer landscape. The object of research is traditional and authorial songs and their bodily and sensual interconnection with the process of experiencing landscape. This experience is gained with a group of artists and environmentalists who have over the course of more than a year repetitively walked through the landscape of the natural park Prokop Valley in Prague and its adjacent urban areas. Qualitative research is taken within the project “Walking as a liquid constant in urban space and landscape”. The method of data collection uses mental maps, inspired by the concept of Kevin Lynch, as a means of documentation. The exposition has three parts 1) the opening video essay, 2) Opus caementicium, autoethnographic reflection of the site, where the project takes place, and 3) Fugue of the vanishing world – an essay on the musical aspect of the project. Chapter titles are inspired by musical terminology that has content connotations in the text or mirrors the structuring of text and musical compositions.
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