Pia Mačerol

Who are you as a performer/artist?
What a considerable and confronting question to begin with. It’s difficult to find a satisfactory and complete answer, but I’ll give it a go.
Who I am as a performer and artist isn’t exactly the same—though both roles emerge from the same physical being. To simplify: I am a body who was named Pia.
When I perform, I become, or transform myself into, a performative body whose given name isn’t what matters anymore. Neither to me nor to you. When I perform, I don’t introduce myself as Pia to you. You firstly and foremostly experience me as a presently performing body. As a performing artist, I’m drawn to the relational experiences between the performing and spectating bodies. Within my performative research, I’m currently researching the colourfully grey liminal spaces between the verbal and non-verbal communication.

What are your ambitions?
My ambition is to create spaces where shared performative experiences, (non-verbal) discussions, (physical) discourses and (verbal and written) feedback can happen, on and off stage.

Where do you find inspiration?
In people and their stories. In nature, on the streets, in bars and clubs. In my imagination. In the way people walk, talk and express themselves. In human and animal behaviours. In what I see, smell, hear, and sense. In how I look at, experience, and perceive the world around me. In (daily) objects. In your smile and in her midnight laughter. In crying, pain, injustice, loneliness and fear. In beauty, aesthetics and colours. In relationships. In overthinking and observing. In what’s within me and around me. In life. In the night sky. In the universe and in cosmic energies.

What did you do at your internship & what did you learn?
I started to freelance.
Participated in many different projects.
Collaborative, performative and research-based work.
What an enriching and fulfilling year. I’m humble, grounded and incredibly grateful. I learned that what you fear to do at first teaches you the most at last.
Lie down, allow yourself to go where it hurts, and breathe through it.
Life gives and takes. Sadly, and luckily.
Number is 8. Return to the body for magic release.

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