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ELIS prostoTak

elisELIS (miss e.) prostoTak is known for blending conceptual precision with intuitive performance to explore body autonomy and ecology, mixing mutual reality, autobiographical fragments, erotism. She is a multifaceted professional with 15 years of experience in cultural and artistic practice. Her work draws from embodied practices, psycho-sensitive states, post-Soviet aesthetics, Japanese philosophies (wabi-sabi, ma, ikebana), and the mess of everyday life. It is guided by emotional urgency, poetic transformations, and a commitment to the raw and unresolved.

elisELIS looks for beauty in the absurd things in her surroundings — and then she kicks that beauty in the crotch…

Creative Genre

  • location-based performance-happenings, collage, video art / digital art, ikebana, still life photography, poetry, installation, experimental theatre, else...

Work Undertaken

  • She co-founded Kyiv Collage Practice (2019–2021)
  • the first platform for contemporary collage art in Ukraine
  • and holds a BA in Contemporary Photographic Practice from the University for the Creative Arts
  • UK
  • and recently finished a Masterschool Software Engineering program in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and is held in private collections across Europe and USA. She received the Presidential Scholarship of Ukraine (2022–2023) and directed two interdisciplinary performances at Hamburg’s Lichthof Theatre: feel my goosebumps (2023) and #ukrwarbody (2022)
  • exploring physicality
  • memory
  • and war. In 2023
  • she participated in the Yokohama Performing Arts Market in Japan with the premiere of Tryptophylia
  • a collaborative performance reflecting on weaving
  • memory
  • and care.

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