Eszter Koncz

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Komarice
 Bestiary



Step carefully and listen closely, and wonders are waiting for you behind the trees, in the grass, under the ground. If you watch closely, you might even get as lucky as grandmother Kubátová and see a Pytlíkač!*

Komarice Bestiary is a site-specific installation, guiding you into the South Bohemian landscape repopulated with creatures that don’t exist (anymore). These animals are collaged from local legends, pets of the village , and extinct species that once stood exactly where you are now. On another level, it is a collection of more recent memories: all creatures are recycled from fabrics that belonged to the actual inhabitants of Komarice.

A new species goes extinct roughly once every hundred minutes.** (more or less the time this walk takes.) The playful, friendly creatures of Komarice Bestiary add a new layer to the landscape evoking long forgotten stories and reminding us that “the familiar human scale is always only one possibility among countless non-human others.”***
concept & design: Eszter Koncz
sound design: Kirstine Hupfeldt Nielsen 
dramaturgy: En Ping Yu

 prepared during a residency at REZI.DANCE, Komarice
for  Harvest Festival 2025.
*local newspaper article from 1930
** Elisabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction
***Augusto Corrieri: The Rock, The Moon, The Butterfly and The Cloud.
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