Priestor definuje možnosti pohybu. Definuje módy bytia. Je tvárny; veríme, že ho dokážeme vytvárať a meniť. Priestor je geometria, objem, vzdialenosti a orientácia. Koľkými priestormi prejdete každý deň? Koľko z nich si všimnete a koľko sa mihne okolo, nepozorovaných? Priestor je vec dennej (s)potreby. Vplýva na to, ako sa máme, na čo myslíme, ako nad tým premýšľame. Pre mestského človeka je architektúra scénografiou bežného života. Tu sa odohrávajú naše príbehy, drámy a radosti.
V rámci podujatia pssst: PRIESTOR sa mestský priestor stáva miestom pre umenie. Scénou sú fasády ODA, Okruhového domu armády v centre Trenčína – schodiská a balkóny smerujúce do Vajanského ulice, zadný trakt ukrytý mimo hlavného pohľadu. Peter Mazalán a Eva Šušková tu vo svetovej premiére uvedú nové performatívno-hudobné dielo FINE / Death Speaks, inšpirované hudbou amerického skladateľa Davida Langa.
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Eva Šušková is a concert singer and music educator. As an artist, she has long distinguished herself in the field of chamber music spanning all stylistic periods and cross-genre collaborations, but particularly in 20th-century and contemporary music. She has performed at numerous opera houses and at international and domestic music and theater festivals in collaboration with renowned conductors, orchestras, and ensembles. Her recordings feature signature projects as well as diverse cross-genre artistic collaborations. She is the recipient of the Tatra Banka Foundation Award for Art, the Radio Head Awards, and the Frico Kafenda Award. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Education at Comenius University and the non-profit organization Superar Slovakia.
Peter Mazalán is a director, scenographer, and singer. He studied opera singing and set design at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He also graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Slovak University of Technology. He has performed at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Theater Kiel, the National Theatre in Ostrava and Brno, as well as the Slovak National Theatre. He has performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Theater Kiel, the National Theater in Ostrava and Brno, and the Slovak National Theater. He has collaborated with musical ensembles such as the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, the Münchner Symphoniker, Chorwerk Ruhr, and the Brno Philharmonic. Currently, he primarily creates original intermedia projects that blend classical song literature with contemporary performative and visual techniques. His projects It Is Enough/Ich habe genug (2022) and the performative project Swan Song/Schwanengesang (2024) were nominated for the Divadelné dosky awards. In early 2026, his new project for the SND Drama Company, Etudes on Life with Autism Spectrum Disorder, received positive reviews. In addition to his artistic practice, he teaches at the Department of Scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) and serves as an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Slovak University of Technology (STU).
David Lang (1957) is an American composer and one of the leading figures in contemporary music. In 1987, he was one of the founding members of the New York collective Bang on a Can, which became one of the most influential platforms for new music at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lang’s work straddles the boundaries of minimalism, experimental music, and music theater; it is characterized by direct expression, the use of repetition, gradual processes, and a sensitive relationship between music and text. He is the author of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and stage works performed by leading ensembles and festivals around the world. His composition has brought him international recognition. He is a professor of composition at the Yale School of Music, and his music is regularly performed in concert halls as well as in interdisciplinary art projects.
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FINE / Death Speaks
Peter Mazalán and Eva Šušková will premiere a new original performative music project in the pssst series as part of Trenčín 2026, drawing on the cycle Death Speaks by American composer David Lang. The themes of death, silence, and human fragility intersect with tangible human and spatial boundaries. FINE examines the inner image of a person while also exploring the body at the limits of its physical capacities – the body as a site of exhaustion, resistance, and inner strength. Despite its dark starting points, the project opens up space for hope. The word FINE is used in both its familiar English and Italian meanings. “I am fine” appears here not as a given or a cliché, but as a fragile, consciously spoken decision to continue, and not to define fine as “the end.” Within the tension between exhaustion and inner energy, a possibility of renewal emerges, a quiet acceptance of life despite its finitude.
Performers
Peter Mazalán – stage concept, voice, performance
Eva Šušková – music concept, voice, performance
David Danel – violin, performance
Miloš Slobodník – electric guitar, performance
Fero Király – piano, performance
50 min.
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The ooo collective was founded in the spring of 2020 out of a need to create space for exploring the world through sound, contemporary music, and intermedia art. Its founding members are musician, educator, and intermedia artist Fero Király, and dramaturge, cultural manager, and performer Eva Vozárová. The collective’s artistic and curatorial focus lies in projects that delve into the complex relationships between human and non-human beings, embracing the fields of acoustic ecology, deep listening, environmental and social issues, as well as disciplines such as anthropology, philosophy, mathematics, and other branches of knowledge. ooo favours considerate artistic interventions.
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The pssst series is an activity of the project New New Music, which is part of Trenčín 2026. Trenčín 2026 is financially supported by the City of Trenčín, the Trenčín Self-Governing Region and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. Partner is the European Union.