Slovak artist Miriama Kardošová presents the audiovisual piece I Tell Her To Speak that combines a club show with an avant-garde performance, adding elements of cabaret and featuring several international guests. In it, Kardošová tells the story of Victoria Oren, her alter ego, an imaginary pop star on the brink of collapse, whose unsettling appearances often generate situations of discomfort and intentionally disrupt the audience’s personal space. The extreme forms of stylization and bodily modification that Kardošová employs through her handmade masks and costumes reflect the transformation of a world in which a personal crisis becomes political and serves as an indicator of a broader social crisis. 

Miriama Kardošová’s performances have a strongly distinctive language, formed by interdisciplinarity and collaborative elements that add new tools for worldbuilding. They are highly expressive and in tune and constant dialogue with the real world, connecting a critical perspective on patriarchal social structures and the frustrations associated with them, the stigmatization of mental health, corporeality, and the sexualization of female bodies. 

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