jak evom

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A theatre-dance performance about externalized authority, dispersed power and the way it inscribes itself into bodies, relations and everyday life.

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2026 / theatre / dance / performance

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SHALLOV. REFRAIN

A video-performance around body ownership, domination, ideology and the fiction of private consciousness.

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2023 / performance / video / text

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Consciousness of Object

A performance built around collision between body and object, where material resistance becomes a way to read control and exhaustion.

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2023 / performance / object / video documentation

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Mathereal

A work about status signs, labels and the pressure to become an original author while being shaped into uniformity.

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2022 / performance / object / text / video

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Carrying Boundaries

An experimental work on boundaries carried by bodies, image, movement and the pressure of shared space.

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2023 / video / experimental theatre / performance

ISN’T IT BEAUTIFUL? AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU CAN SEE?

The performance explores the gradual merging of the human body and technology through an intimate dialogue between a light source and the dancer’s body. Their relationship raises questions of closeness, control, and dependency. Who adapts to whom, and to what extent does the body remain autonomous? Technology is not presented merely as a tool, but as a partner whose presence shapes both our actions and our perception of ourselves. The work reflects on our everyday relationship with technologies that expand our possibilities while simultaneously requiring us to adapt to their logic. Rather than treating the human and the machine as opposites, the performance follows their gradual convergence. Through the encounter between light and the living body, it considers how human identity is changing as technology becomes an inseparable part of our lives. Concept and authorship: Jak Evom Performance: Anja Naňová

A work by Jak Evom (Jakub Užovič)

2025 / performance

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Painting 11

Chemtrails as a painting motif: traces that spread, overlap and disappear into further layers.

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Painting 12

A child’s kite tears into fragments. What was meant to rise and hold together falls apart. With it, childhood dreams unravel.

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Painting 13

Small figures gather into something shared, yet the relationships between them remain unclear. Each holds on to its own outline. The whole consists of separate parts that seem to be seeking a place beside one another.

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Pressure Memory The body is enclosed in a casing that both protects and restricts it. It resembles a spacesuit: separating it from its surroundings while keeping it alive. Pressure builds up in layers of form until the boundary between the body and its support disappears.

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Painting 05

A yellow field connects scattered motifs. Forms transform, overlap and lose their firm outlines.

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Painting 07

A hand and a head in the upper part of the painting mingle with butterfly motifs. It is a moment of summer rest, when the body relaxes and attention can wander freely.

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The circle evokes both a target and part of a control apparatus. The surrounding forms arrange themselves in relation to it, as though it determined where the body could move and where it had to stop.

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Portrait of Bernard Marcel. The face appears and disappears beneath layers of paint. The figure of the philosopher remains present, yet both his recognisable features and the notion of a fixed, rational order fall apart.

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