With every blow, they sink deeper and deeper. How long this descent lasts depends on the degree of aggression: the fiercer the struggle, the more compelling the movements. They descend ever faster, unaware of the abyss slowly swallowing them.

All the scenery that no one ever cared about forces its way, raw and without warning, through old and new intrigues alike. Beneath the surface of ownership and land speculation, another current is stirring. It floods the agora of debates on identity. At the roots lie molecules, reactions, mutations and cocktails. But how is the surveyor supposed to measure any of this? After all, the village belongs to the château. And the mist enveloping it is called the Anthropocene.

The force of material reality is an uncomfortable message for intellectuals who remain convinced that any reference to reality inevitably carries the scent of reactionary fantasies.

Performed in Slovak.

Robo Švarc (*1983, Bratislava) is a visual artist, curator, writer and translator. Between 1992 and 2002, he played football for ŠK Slovan Bratislava. In 2015, he graduated in Painting from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Since 2013, he has been developing Lecture Art, a project fostering dialogue among those concerned with the current cultural, social and environmental condition.

In 2021, he published the book Non Exit and translated Milo Rau's The Congo Tribunal. He is currently completing a translation of Florian Malzacher's Not Just a Game: Contemporary Political Theatre (Czech title: Společenské hry. Současné politické divadlo).

He is a co-founder of the civic association Beznádej a zúfalstvo (Hopelessness and Despair), which is dedicated exclusively to utopian-realist projects, including the ongoing Remediation Sculpture in the orchard of a primary school within the former Istrochem industrial complex. In 2025, he began his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM).