Performance
Nicole Sabella: Will you be my witness?

We warmly invite you to Nicole Sabelly’s performance Will you be my witness?, which will take place on Tuesday, 9 December at 8:00 PM at G99. The event is part of the opening of the exhibition Trigger Witness.

In this performance, visitors take the role of witnesses and hold space for the performer‘s unfolding stories of emotional triggers while sharing a relaxing herbal foot bath.
Capacity is limited.

EXHIBITION OPENING PROGRAM 

18:00 opening of the event, introductory remarks
18:30 exhibition talk of Aeris Chronos by Kryštof Brůha
19:00 exhibition talk of Disk Cannot Be Read at Vašulka Kitchen Brno
19:30 exhibition talk of Trigger Witness at G99 with Alžběta Bačíková
20:00 performance Will you be my witness? by Nicole Sabella at G99
21:00 end of the event

ABOUT EXHIBITION

Trigger Witness explores emotional triggers as a key to unseen circumstances. Instead of understanding triggers as something negative, the project sees them as a way of revealing narratives that tend to be culturally distorted or ignored. The exhibition concept welcomes artistic forms characterized by shock – that are fragmentary, non-linear, or impossible to communicate. The poetics of the exhibited works thus results from the tension between their aesthetic form and the reality that shapes this form. The exhibition aims to not just uncover the image of reality hidden behind these works, but also to explore the tools used by the artists, so that we may better understand the works, culturally classify them, and avoid reducing them to their attractive formal or aesthetic features, which would mean denying the reality they depict.

G99 presents two original artistic explorations. In Nicole Sabella’s Trigger Happy, emotional triggers become a tool for seeing in the sense of activating a zone in which the body reacts before we can say anything. The installation’s performative and digital elements, which were created in collaboration with Joanna Zabielská and Bilal Alame, open up a hybrid field for a parallel, multiphonic reading (shaped in part by the viewers themselves) of traces left in somatic memory. In her installation made during the Brno Artists in Residence program, Alžběta Bačíková combines recordings of performances with drawings and embroidery as imaginative – but, more importantly, faithfully rendered – places where taboo events pulsate beneath the surface. Her autofictional gesture explores motifs such as family memory, healing, and the impossibility of escaping one’s origins – motifs that become triggers for storytelling.

The exhibition project Trigger Witness thematically continues research conducted in 2023–24, which focused on addictions and escape strategies under the motto Your Addiction Is the Message.