Organisms Democracy Prague

A performative walk emerging from the workshop Organisms Democracy explores the plant, animal, fungal, and microbial life of Prague's Libeň neighbourhood and its relationship to urban development and the city's social history. Over ten days, the workshop collective maps sensitive locations where ornamental and invasive species coexist, "wild" and deliberately planted vegetation, industrial environments, and remnants of allotment colonies threatened by developers.

The walk translates these layers into voices, situations, and images - individual species become actors in the story. These include plants associated with developer aesthetics (cherry laurel, bamboo), nettles along the Vltava riverbanks, and so-called non-native inhabitants like box elder bugs and nutrias, whose presence disrupts conventional ideas of "proper" urban order.

The performance understands the urban environment as a network of interconnected species and relationships - not as a backdrop, but as an active, shared space where human and more-than-human agency meet.