Fotograf Zone – Sensory belonging

I don’t speak, the things are spoken through me.

I don’t act, the things are acted through me.

I do not have to feel responsible for what I said,

and I don’t have to have feelings for what I did.

Beginning of therapeutic practice in collaboration with the weather.

Focus on each instruction closely, but while it can be concentration-heavy,

there is invitation for misunderstanding.

(excerpt from the manual of guidelines for performative play "Sensory Belonging.")

Natália Sýkorová, 2022

Selected by Luboš Svoboda

#44 Empathy

The ability to empathise with others is a construct that has only been around for a few centuries. This does not mean that such a skill did not exist until then. However, the concept of empathy creates a field in which this ability oscillates from understanding the other party to understanding the self. And because such a playground can be quite expansive, and the playing balls of empathy can be ping-ponged from one side to the other, we decided to dedicate an issue of the magazine to this field.