What happens when a gallery doesn’t shut down after closing time but instead starts to fill up with stories of surreal characters who have a life of their own? Farm in the Cave, the in-house ensemble of the DOX Centre, has created a unique evening performance that takes place in the middle of the exhibition David Lynch: Up in Flames.
Premiere: 16 October 2025, 8 pm
A performative surprise by Farm in the Cave as part of the David Lynch's Up in Flames exhibition opening. At the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, 18 June 2025 shortly after 7 pm.
Three people cross paths while on the run. Bound to each other, they overcome obstacles and navigate limit situations on a difficult journey to freedom. Anxiety, courage, failure, joy, compassion. How does our world actually see the value of people who “have no territory of their own”? The production not only reflects on current events but above all portrays the human quest for self-discovery and the personal transformation of each of us.
Mind if I ask you something?
Why are you lying?
Movement, live music, dynamics, energy, exaggeration, and a few words. The movement satire Czech Hero features a woman determined to meet those she does not understand.
Premiere: 26 April 2024
Oscillations... A performance by Farm in the Cave collective about the uncatchable everydayness...
Premiere: 18.12.2023
1. reprise: 19.12.2023
Within the educational part of the Online Hero project, Farm in the Cave holds various public lectures, workshops and discussions.
In the Youth in the Cave programme, Farm in the Cave will introduce to young adults its performing method Immerse Performing that they teach regularly in their workshops for professionals in the Czech Republic and abroad.
The program will be held in Czech language only.
Over its more than twenty years of existence, Farm in the Cave has been passing on its way of working with physical and musical expression in international workshops which are based on their experiences from their research, training and performance creation.
One evening - two art forms. One topic - two worlds. Audiovisual projection with child actors - and physical theatre with adult performers. The online radicalisation of children vs. juvenile behaviour of our society. The dynamic movement of the performers, the pulse of live music and disturbing images create an unusual insight into the digital darkness that most of us are – perhaps intentionally – unaware of.
What if children spoke to each other as if they're chatting? What if their dialogues weren't fictional but taken literally from neo-Nazi chats? The film Commander publicly reveals what has so far remained hidden behind the digital curtain. It illuminates the contours of the present world in which some children live their second lives.
Get on. We’re not stopping. We’re in this together, but separately. Moments, when we could understand, but we missed out.
Film version of the project Ephemera.
Get on. We’re not stopping. We’re in this together, but separately. Moments, when we could understand, but we missed out.
What lies beneath the marketing created images of the corporations whose products we consume daily? And “who is” this corporation?
Fragments of an absurd mother-daughter relationship appear in a kaleidoscope of situations from other lives lived without recognizing their sense and direction, between fun and powerlessness, narcissism and fear of death. The present alternates with the past, and rejection with the desire for closeness. Time passes, the elevator is rising, and the party has to end sometime. We’ve grown old. Does it surprise us?
They’re disconnected. From “normal society”, from necessary failure in the everyday struggle with “the world out there”. Withdrawn into themselves, (in)voluntarily imprisoned in their apartments and rooms, which they don’t leave for months, years, sometimes even entire decades. There are hundreds of thousands of them. In Japan, Brazil, Scandinavia, in the Czech Republic, and in other parts of the world. A generation in crisis? An disease of contemporary society? Hikikomori.
The composed evening; Farm in the Cave gives the audience a chance to not only look inside different cultures, but also into the life of an ensemble thought-out a period of ten years.
Performance The Theatre is a way of searching for human freedom within a social system. Freedom, however gradually becomes merely a game, theater. For whom and why do we play?
The show speaks about memory versus the presence of a place. In the waiting-room, a place in-between, „accidental“ travellers meet and the dead return, not by accident.
The performance Dark Love Sonnets views the changes in the world and its ways during one life time through the prism of poetic vision and the philosophical background of duende.
The architecture and history of the railway station Žilina – Záriečie. Studying Slovak Tango. Researching the historical and political influences on this tiny region in the 1930’s and now – nationalism then and now.
The scenic composition is based on field research the Farm in the Cave did in villages of eastern Slovakia, on old Ruthenian and Ukrainian songs, on letters of Slovak emigrants, and on the story of Karel Čapek ’s Hordubal.
Searching for themes in the villages of Eastern Slovakia. Emigration then and now – stories, songs and letters. Researching intonations and melodies of Ruthenian, Sarisin and Ukrainian origin.
concert
Three choirs, three conductors, and forty voices on stage at Švandovo Theater. This is a unique meeting of original interpreters like the actress and singer Mariana Sadovska, the Derevjanky Trio and others.
The international theater project Journey to the Station concluded with a performance of the same name which brought the building of the small railway station together with 62 participants from varied cultural backgrounds.
In order to create a project with the working title “Lorca,” a group of young actors under the direction of Viliam Dočolomanský were invited on a trip to Andalucía along with filmmakers J & J Jakubisko Film.