Hana Magdoňová (CZ, 1989) is an artist and researcher in the field of performance. The basic method of her work is shamanic ecstasy, creation of liminal experiences that are inherent for both: the performative aesthetic as well as the ritual of passage. The visual outward experience is here relegated to the background at the expense of bodily inward experience (whether it is the performer’s own body during a performance or a collective body within participatory happenings). The resulting effort is to expand our phenomenological experience with mythical/posthumanist realities that are always present in the wider reality.

Agronauts* Collective was founded by Hana Magdonova, Otto Kauppinen and Lea Spahn in 2019 as a platform for artistic projects with an interest in posthumanist theories, multi-species entanglements and embodied research. As a collective, Agronauts* position themselves between art and activism for livable futures. For the past 5 years, they invited artists and educators from different fields for collaborative research symposia in a specific landscape to live, create and reflect together. Agronauts* is an imaginary species that resists societies based on economic growth, survives ecological damage and reclaims co-existence in more-than-human collectives. In their work, Agronauts* Collective connects performance art, dramaturgy, relational aesthetics, arts education, (post-)phenomenology and political ecologies.