Throughout the early evening on Thursday, June 25, there will be three screenings of Nina Davies’ video Haters Will Say I’m Real (2024), each expanding into a seven-minute performance within the accompanying installation Bystander Assembly (2024), , which is part of the exhibition DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign. The performances begin at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 7 pm. The event is part of Galerie Rudolfinum’s Art Sounds series, which bring musical, movement, and literary pop-up events directly to the exhibitions.
Haters Will Say I’m Real is a nine-minute film whose narration takes the form of a podcast-style conversation between two unseen speakers. As the dialogue unfolds between an actor describing a film role and an interviewer, it becomes clear that the work is set in a fictional near future, in which they discuss changes to the legal system driven by automation, technological development, and their resulting ethical consequences.
The film posits a hypothetical reclaiming of image rights: an assertion of control over one’s likeness through dance-based rituals and coded movement that situate the performer within their real environment. In the dance, performers weave through an installation of devices that appear to engage in a kind of do-si-do.
Nina Davies is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present by observing dance in popular culture and how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. Previous research projects have included the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Moving between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices. Her work has recently been shown at Aksioma (Ljubljana), FACT (Liverpool), Henry Moore Institute (Leeds) and ArtSpace (Sydney).
Nina Davies will be participating in her performance at Galerie Rudolfinum.
Agáta Jarošová Perez is a Czech-Spanish-Uruguayan dancer, choreographer, and instructor. She works in the fields of contemporary dance and dance education for both children and adults; in 2025, she became an Associated Artist at SE.S.TA (Center for Choreographic Development). She studied at CNDC Angers (France) and La Manufacture in Lausanne (Switzerland), and in 2020 she earned a master’s degree in Paris. She is part of the teaching team for the Škola tančí programme and the Lusk association. In her work, she explores the body as a mutable entity in dialogue with the imagination and visual art. She has collaborated on socio-artistic projects (for example Bepart) in the Czech Republic and Iceland. She is the creator of solo and site-specific works (Sa présence, TAM, Les Habités), a dancer for diverse multidisciplinary projects, and has also participated in projects connecting art and science (for example Became Machine and Memories). She currently leads workshops in the Czech Republic, is involved in Alban Richard’s INSEIN project, and is preparing a new dance-visual work Entre (Mezi) with Lara Gouix (France).
Marialena Souli was born and raised in Zakynthos (Greece) and began her journey in dance and the arts at a young age, taking classes in dance, freehand drawing, and line drawing. She later graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Ioannina, having taken classes at the BRERA Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She then graduated from the Rallou Manou Higher Professional School of Dance in Athens, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. Since 2024, she’s been based and working as a dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor in Prague. Her creations and co-creations have been presented in Athens, Prague, and Berlin, and her first solo project was selected in the Czech Republic in March 2025 and is currently in progress. She recently collaborated as a dancer/performer on the project The Silence of the Mole, which is being presented at the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
The DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign project is co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe programme.
More information about the event can be found on the Galerie Rudolfinum website.
Galerie Rudolfinum