Třetí ruka

In the project Třetí ruka, Handa Gote returns to the puppet theater and follows up on her own production Safírová hlava, which was a reconstruction of a forgotten puppet project from the 90s. Now Handa Gote are continuing their efforts to reconstruct, this time with a genre that maybe wasn't a genre and probably didn't even exist at all.

This is research into the specific visuality of experimental puppetry of the 90s and an attempt at a sort of revival of this forgotten micro-genre surrealist puppet theater. He is particularly inspired by Petr Niklo's experiments with the Mehedah theater, the puppet work of František Skála and the BKS group or Čestmír Suška or Petr Šoch, but also the works of Milan Grygar. One of the inspirations is also the unattainable Czech puppet legend - the production Piškanderdulá and through it the tradition of variety puppet performances, the tradition of "different" puppet aesthetics, which are represented, for example, by the puppets of Paul Klee and also the work of many Art brut artists.< /p>

The Third Hand creates a puppet microcosm that can be entered from different sides and that does not offer any story - only small fragments of situations and images, open to the viewer's interpretation. Here, Handa Gote works with a number of energetically charged objects, often found in special circumstances or from the possessions of their ancestors, and assembles these powerful objects into fragmentary compositions referring to the theme of souls or paintings with the theme of vanitas. The artistic inspiration was the aesthetics of Vietnamese markets, Chinese stores, the visuality of Mexican altars and Day of the Dead celebrations, or the Japanese mobile kamishibai theater or dogugaeshi stage technology. The group collaborates on the visual form with the artist, who creates sub by the kosmo_nauty brand.

Suitable for viewers aged 12 and over.