Performance Art

Artist Biography

Helena Eflerová is a professional multidisciplinary artist who employs direct dialogue between artist and viewer, utilising physical engagement and non-verbal language as communication. Her Fine Art Masters Degree research explored the fusion of underwater live performance, video installation and human prenatal theories by combining five disciplines: Live Art, Butoh, Prenatal/Peri-natal Psychology, Bio-science and Apnea.


Eflerová has shown work in universities, art galleries, off-site, non-gallery/heritage and site-specific environments. Acquiring numerous commissions and exhibitions in the UK and abroad including: ‘Trimester’ at Para Haus Contemporary Art Exhibition (Parallel to the São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil 2010); ‘Hunter/Hunted’ at Mottisfont (National Trust and Arts Council England 2012); ‘Anima/Animus’ at Winchester Cathedral (10 days Winchester Creative Collisions and Arts Council England 2013); ‘Faces’ at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (The Portsmouth Festivities, National Royal Navy Museum and Arts Council England 2014) and ‘Embodied Vistas’ at A.P.T. Gallery and GalleryMuse (Arts Council England 2014).

Aquatic Performances and Poetry Anthology Videos

Lightness & Flow Duet 1

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Lightness and Flow 2018 with Manuela Blanchard Russi and Helena Eflerová

Photography by: Hugh Greasley

Editing by: Hugh Greasley and Helena Eflerová

Lightness & Flow Duet 2

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Lightness and Flow 2018 with Manuela Blanchard Russi and Helena Eflerová

Photography by: Hugh Greasley

Editing by: Hugh Greasley and Helena Eflerová

Lightness & Flow Duet 3

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Lightness and Flow 2018 with Manuela Blanchard Russi and Helena Eflerová

Photography by: Hugh Greasley

Editing by: Hugh Greasley and Helena Eflerová

Lunar Walk (1/8) - Falling

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The Lunar Walk is an anthology of 8 poems developed by the collaboration between a performance artist - Helena Eflerová and poet Hugh Greasley - based on a walk at full moon down the river Itchen in the UK, down to the sea. Falling is about the brief feeling of being suspended above the surface of a river as you jump in on a warm evening.

Lunar Walk (2/8) - Laminar

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The Lunar Walk is an anthology of 8 poems developed by the collaboration between a performance artist - Helena Eflerová and poet Hugh Greasley - based on a walk at full moon down the river Itchen in the UK, down to the sea. Laminar is inspired by the laminar flow regime of water - so tranquil and ordered - and by a wild swim at midnight.

Lunar Walk (4/8) - Hidden Heart

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The Lunar Walk is an anthology of 8 poems developed by the collaboration between a performance artist - Helena Eflerová and poet Hugh Greasley - based on a walk at full moon down the river Itchen in the UK, down to the sea. Hidden Heart is inspired by the depths of the river under a waterfall.

Gills

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A Poem Film by Hugh Greasley and Helena Eflerová about Identity - how we share so much DNA with fish and birds.

Embodied Vistas

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Embodied Vistas sees Wilson-Eflerová (Kye Wilson and Helena Eflerová) use video installation and performance to offer audiences an embodied experience, blurring the distinctions between place, oneself and other.

Embodied Vistas (Exhibition)

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Embodied Vistas sees Wilson-Eflerová (Kye Wilson and Helena Eflerová) use video installation and performance to offer audiences an embodied experience, blurring the distinctions between place, one self and other.

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