D'epog is a platform for contemporary performance art. The group of artists has been active since 2010 on the domestic scene in Brno. Their long-term activity includes the creation of regular productions, one-off performances, borderline art projects and educational activities in the form of practical workshops and specialized workshops. D'epog is a collective of authors Lucia Repašská, Matyáš Dlab, Zdeněk Polák, Janet Prokešová, Radim Chyba and Zuzana Smutková.

The group's activity is laboratory in nature, exploring the possible means of live art beyond established generic and genre categories. D'epog programmatically develops research into theatricality, actorly expressivity, and formal and compositional strategies, with attention to the physical and contextual qualities of the spaces in which it performs its productions. The work strongly emphasizes the role of the spectator, the degree of their interpretive freedom and their contribution to the creation of the semantic structure of the work. The key starting points of the activity include the integration of the thinking and means of other artistic fields into the language of performance art, sustainable self-destruction as a continuous process of denial of the author's own cliché, a permanent redefinition of the status of the author and the reason, relevance and lifespan of artistic communication, total aesthetic plurality and the courage to formulate a new artistic language that we do not yet speak.

The repertoire of productions consists of regularly reconstructed scenic forms of various profiles, ranging from ensemble-wide productions to monodramatic projects, usually performed in non-theatrical spaces. Each individual production is usually installed in its own space in collaboration with exhibition houses and halls, cultural centres or very specific spaces. The production titles are not linked by a coherent aesthetic practice, but rather by conceptually driven formal and content heterogeneity. The characteristic features of the production are the original authorial background and radical materialization of adapted materials, targeted work with and questioning of aesthetic expectations, deconstruction of the representativeness of theatrical reality and testing the boundaries, limits and possibilities of artistic communication in shared time and space. The group's work is characterized by the search for new narrative compositions through the simultaneity of means of communication and acting, the exploration of new forms of dialogicity, the sovereign manifestation of the presence of authorial identity, the layering of autonomous semantic structures, the combination of sign, metaphorical, associative montage with civil personal acting, and the integration of spatial qualities through the means of scenography. The ensemble pays concentrated attention to the search for new models of relations to the audience as a co-responsible subject in the process of artistic communication in the form of interpretive freedom as a commitment to the work.

In addition to fixed staging, a series of para-theatrical projects – long-form performances in which ordinary reality is intervened and colonised, on the basis of which a new reality is created, formulated by completely autonomous performers. The primary goal of these productions is to find the authentic existence of the actors in the performative work outside of fictional frameworks. Individual performances are based on continuously deepened training strategies, on clearly articulated formal and compositional procedures that are revisited again and again, but the concrete form is quite different with each realization – the productions do not start from any fixed structures. The individual performances are united by a simple radical challenge – to be, to exist within artistic communication – to be, to exist in front of an audience. The group of performers brings their own motivic and thematic structure and narrative content. In this free interface, the actors guarantee their own existence instead of the production team, theatre technology or the author of the text. Authorship as a manifestation of their own existence, their own existence as a manifestation of authorship.

Parallel to the movement between theatricality and parareality, D'epog conceptually develops interdisciplinary contacts in the form of practical seminars that explore and practically test the possibilities of performative works to express themselves through the means of other artistic fields. As part of its continuous educational activities, D'epog regularly organises specialised workshops and seminars and, since 2014, an annual Summer School.