Jana Orlová
Jana Orlová is a Prague-based performance artist, poet, and researcher. Orlová has been involved in performance and border art forms in her critical and curatorial practice. She also publishes her studies abroad. Orlová has released three collections of poetry in Czech Republic and five abroad, her poems have been translated to several more languages, for example also into Chinese, Arabic or Hindi. She has taken part in many performance art events over Europe, also in Canada, and the US. In her practice, performance art is living poetry, and she perceives her body as a field of event, working with ritualistic and holistic approaches. Her work is marked by a combination of a minimalistic form and a raw statement.