Embodying Health – 2025
Embodying Health presents the results of a ten-day residency of individual and collective experimentation between artists from France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Netherlands and Hungary, exploring mental health through transmedia creation.
Just before
Celebration of inner poetic
Ritual design: Kathy Hermanns Body voice circle: Pauline Gil Meditation: Karolina Fafinska
A ritual designed for the whole group to celebrate their inner poetic. To slow down time, to connect to one another and transform to bring out their inner poet.
Cycloserenity
Franciszek Wantuch
Cycloserenity is a collective series of photographs based on interviews and visits to local homes in Cornac, France. In this publication, I aim to explore the correlation between nature and communities, examining both their similarities and differences.
Coming Home
Director: Clément Lafon Placette Projection artist: Monica Efimov Choreographer of objects : Yannick Stasiak Choreographer of bodies : Javier Mansbach Performers: Monica Efimov, Lydia Patra, Krisztina Bogó, Eliza Rajsz Music: Klaskie
With this piece, we explore how trauma healing enables connection with others, and vice versa, how connection with others supports healing, becoming a virtuous circle. In the performance, the presence of trauma is first prominent, represented by video projections as well as a play with objects covering the main protagonist. The interaction with the group (other dance performers) progressively improves until the group helps the person let go of the trauma-infused objects.
Peek-a-hide-out
Krisztina Bogó
This installation is created by researching the topic of “serious playfulness”. I wanted to create a place which brings back instantly the feeling of being a child. Having a dreamlike safe place to hide, which makes you feel comfortable, where you are not seen -feeling invisible – but lets you notice the surroundings and do playful secret things.
Warning: Only children allowed to enter! (but maybe you lie about your age).
Nest out of wood and rope
Language of love
Klaskie (Klaske Duin)
This soundscape explores the experience of suddenly being filled with all-encompassing love and how we humans can materialize this love and give it shape, texture, names and details. Klaskie recorded over ten participants talking about love in their own languages, including Dutch, French, Polish, Greek, Uzbek, Turkish, Georgian, Hungarian, Romanian, Catalan, Croatian, Arabic, Farsi, Persian, Yoruba, Bambara and Slovakian. Relax, close your eyes and listen to the language of love.
The day when I was many and we were only one
Director : Yannick Stasiak “Puppeteers” : Mariona Rios, Zvončica Kučanda, Eliza Rajsz Support: Valentina Viettro
Proposition 1 : Once Upon a time , my hand appears. She was alive, I saw a human being, a spider maybe? Suddenly, my arms are 10 meter lang… Am I 3? Are we 1? How much are we?
Proposition 2 : I wanted to explore puppetry without any puppet in relation with spaces
How can we have different puppets with “parts of bodies”, How can have one “big puppet”
How can we transform space ?
Process papers
The bluenest
Mariona Rios Pauline Gil Francesca Gualino Karolina Fafinska
How can the body express the waves of mental health’s metamorphosis? In this performance we will travel from the individual struggle to the collective healing nest.
Chairs
Deconstructed Treasure Hunting Game
Lydia Patra (Monfort) Zvončica Kučanda Clément Lafon Placette
With Treasure hunting Game we would like to create a narrative between the different artworks and give some clues that will lead from the one to another in order to enhance the playfulness and the sense of exploring both of the surroundings and of oneself. During the procedure is not only about finding clues or treasures to win a race, but also to build trust, to explore senses, to come closer and to finally find something exciting about ourselves.
Diversity Universe
Painter: Nargiza Özgüzel Video maker: Nino Gvamberadze Weaving Connection: Elif Öztürk
This video captures a peaceful yoga class held in the charming village of Cornac, surrounded by stunning natural beauty. As the group moves in harmony with the landscape, a sense of calm and connection fills the air.
Alongside this, a unique artistic expression emerges: a painting depicting the same yoga class, where each participant has represented themselves using yarn. This collective artwork speaks to more than just physical presence—it reveals the deeper bonds formed between individuals.
The shared web we weave with our unique threads becomes a living painting of connection, solidarity, and emotional strength.
The beginning
Monica Efimov
A short animated video that offers a visual representation of the first signs of trauma forming inside of an individual, serving as the introduction to the “Healing Communities” performance.
Soothing Candies
Norma Nardi Ivana Kamenska
Soothing Candies explores finding comfort as collective wisdom and as a relational practice, with oneself and with one another. Each candy is wrapped together with a small printed note that comes as a gift from another participant of the workshop: one of their own ways of finding comfort in everyday life.
Once Upon a Time in Cornac
G.S.
A story that reveals the wild secrets hidden beneath the idyllic veneer of a village in the South of France.
Unspoken Strokes
Konstadina Fratzeskou
With “Unspoken Strokes,” I wanted to explore how silent, embodied painting can become a collective practice for expressing unprocessed emotions. By painting all together without speaking — using different parts of the body in an intuitive, spontaneous way — we create space for emotions that words cannot express.
