Metro D
6/2020, 24h Performance, Prague, CZ
The original plans for the fourth line of the Prague metro – metro D – were conceived even before the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution in 1989. Postponements of its construction became notorious in recent years, similar to the infamous Blanka tunnel. Prague activists were “officially opening” the non-existent metro D with a parodic action already in 2010 (!).
In my performance Metro D, I followed the planned line from the existing station “Náměstí Míru” to the hypothetical end station “Depo Písnice” and back on a bicycle. This urban ritual aimed to secure the successful finalization of the metro D construction. I started symbolically at midnight and the whole route took me 4 hours. To increase the power of the ritual, I collected sacrifices from the co-performers and audience members. By coincidence, I gathered exactly 10 offerings and therefore it was possible to leave one of them on each of the visited “stations”.
Performance Metro D was presented under the framework of the event 24h Performance curated by Darina Alster and streamed nonstop to the visitors of the event at Prague’s SWIM Club and online through the Zoom platform.