Tetiana Kytsenko

The Body After: Landscape is a fictional documentary performance exploring how people learn to live in bodies transformed by war, violence, and aesthetic pressure. The project juxtaposes two experiences of bodily change: the severe bodily trauma caused by warfare and the damaging cosmetic interventions driven by media-shaped ideals.

Through text, sound, video, and immersive staging, the performance investigates how contemporary humans negotiate shame, resilience, desire, and survival when the body no longer matches social expectations. It asks whether the body must be changed—or whether we can learn to inhabit it anew.

The project aims to create a space of empathy where physical loss and aesthetic crisis can be perceived not as opposites but as parallel landscapes of vulnerability and strength.

As a social and artistic project, this performance tells the story of Antonina Romanova, a theater director and non-binary person. Being on the front line as an artillerist, she shares her own experience gained in the war and compares it with World War I. The staging will combine Antonina’s videos from the front line, VJing, contemporary music, and choreography.