Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
Map
Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
Alternativa Festival
Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
Map
Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
free with a ticket to the exhibition
Concert of the Prague Quiet Music Collective.
Address
GHMP Dům fotografie
Revoluční 1006/5
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
Map
The building is barrier-free (elevator – call the phone T (+420) 702 283 922)
free with a ticket to the exhibition
Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
Map
Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
Contacts
Alice Lenská
T (+420) 725 811 936
E vzdelavani@ghmp.cz
Lucie Haškovcová
T (+420) 606 612 987
E edukace@ghmp.cz
free
Screening of the silent film Faust (1926) with live music by the Nauzea Orchestra.
Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
Map
Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
stable
The BioTroja program and Prague City Gallery present the last concert in the Sonic Garden season series, this time inside the castle stables and including video projection. The dramaturgy of the evening is focused on different kinds of the ambient music, using the acoustically specific space of the room with a long echo. Besides the art of ambient, the evening is dedicated to and features two important personalities: Miroslav Posejpal (1952) one of the founders of Czech ambient and improvised music, and the work of the composer, experimental filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock (1933), who celebrated his 90th birthday at the beginning of October. Together with the saxophonist and clarinetist Jiří Durman and the percussionist Miroslav Kodym, Posejpal released in England in 1985 the album Hidden Voices, considered as important until today, and in 2012 the label Polí5 released a two-disc compilation In the Circles of Time with a selection of recordings from 1977 to 2012. Niblock is one of the prominent personalities of the so-called drone music, in which long duration tones are layered in microtonal tuning, creating immersive soundscapes and soundclouds.
Miroslav Posejpal is a significant personality of the Czech music scene in the field of improvised and ambient music. From 1972 he collaborated with Jiří Durman, where the sound of his bass guitar and double bass were complemented by the tones of Durman’s saxophones. Later, he worked in the electroacoustic trio ParaNeuro, in the improvisation group IQ+1, in the musical performance group Tonton Macoutes and other groups. In recent years, he is focusing more on solo electro-acoustic work and he has returned to the guitar as his first musical instrument. The Blue Lizard label released his solo guitar work on the albums Stellar Voices and Songs of the Ocean and also the titles Call for the Angels and Urban Prayers (from the period of Posejpal’s collaboration with Jiří Durman). Samples from both guitar albums will be played at the concert.
https://bluelizard.bandcamp.com/album/album/stellar-voices
https://bluelizard.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-the-ocean
Georgij Bagdasarov is an audiovisual artist, he lives and works in Prague. In his work with film, he mainly focuses on the material processes of creating a photochemical image or on generative algorithmic structures. Besides his engagement with images, film and digital processes, he is as well involved in acoustic or electronic experimental music.
Ranter’s bay aka Niet F-n (*1978) is an Italian sound artist, musician and founder of Kaczynski Editions and Pulsioni Oblique. He is involved in various musical projects such as Zero23, ranter’s groove or 23RedAnts. He often collaborates with visual artists and with theatre companies, for example in Spain or Taipei. His music has been published by Crónica Electronica, Setola di Maiale, Creative Sources, zeromoon, ManyFeetUnder and on his label Kaczynski Editons. Stefano builds his own bended instruments and often uses his field recordings. A supporter of free culture releases, his music under a Creative Commons license. In Prague, he will play samples from his latest album I Will Destroy Everything I Love (2023).
http://nietfn.weebly.com/
Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
château garden
free
These four entities never collaborated live, in physical form, in this combination. However, they connected together via extrasensory communication within uni.Sol_ project.
Four Sonic Entities are roaming gardens, each following its own trajectory, looking for a connection with the surrounding sound environment, trying to fit in in their own unique way. They do not interact by purpose; each holds to its own individual character. Will they collide together, tuning to each other the same way as tuning within the environment of the gardens? Experiment with “how to be together” while staying true to ourselves, and how to co-exist in other ways.
Slavek Kwi is a sound artist, composer, and researcher interested in the phenomena of perception, the fundamental determinant of relations with reality. From 1991 Slavek has operated under the moniker of Artificial Memory Trace. Then, gradually he evolved into sound-entity alfa00. Since 2018 alfa00 is acting as an ambassador of uni.Sol_. An intention to explore and implement the idea of freedom, to enhance awareness of human relationship with the surrounding environment through the practice of listening. A vision of an all-encompassing universe welcoming unconditionally all Sounds regardless of origin, a system of thinking and beliefs.
artificialmemorytrace.bandcamp.com
unisol.bandcamp.com
alfa00.bandcamp.comJena Jang is a Korean audiovisual artist based in Prague. She’s interested in sound storytelling and its visualisation on a spiritual level, which she creates using extended technique on instruments, and so her vocal improvisation varies from chanting, humming, and screaming, which focuses on purifying herself, removing negativity, and transforming it into lightness. This energy circulation is the main repertoire of her pieces, and she adds ambient recordings from the streets, nature, and all kinds of coincidental harmonies from the universe.
soundcloud.com/purplearsoundVlastislav Matoušek (1948) studied Composition and post-gradual courses in Musical Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts, the Faculty of Music in Prague where he has been teaching ethnomusicology since 1991. There he received his Ph.D. degree in theory of composition. Six months as a fellow of Japan Foundation he studied shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) playing at Master Kifu Mitsuhashi and Japanese Traditional Music at Prof. Osamu Yamaguti in Japan. In his ethnomusicology research he focuses on Extra-European Cultures, exotic and folk musical instruments, rhythm and kinetics. He has been active as a musical journalist, especially with the Czech Radio in Prague. He is the author of extraordinary original art-music compositions, often with the participation of exotic instruments and electronics. He prefers non-traditional means of expression and compositional procedures.
www.shakuhachi.cz/dilo/en/biography.htm
Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
Map
Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.
château garden
free
Anna will discuss audio and radio art works that explore earth elements such as fog, the land transformed by fire, and the parallels between human and more-than-human transmissions. Focusing on states of change (such as condensation, evaporation, incineration, recuperation), these works listen across cycles of drought and flood, consider risk and regeneration, and tell a few ghost stories along the way. How can listening, understood as a quality of attention, reflect on the changing land in this time of urgent climate crisis? Together with field recording practices, she composes observation-based scores in response to the real-time movement of the fog or the rhythm of tides at the mouth of a river, and uses an eclectic instrumentation of electronics, voice, found objects such as lung-powered boat horns, and radiophonic instruments. The talk will include excerpts from recent durational radio art works including Fog Refrain and Water Line/Estuary Almanac.
“The environmental crisis we are experiencing calls for immediate action, as if the ship was sinking. Planet Earth is our home ship, and she needs all citizens to take action to save her. The nautical flags used on ships to communicate symbolize a visual messaging that transcends countries, boundaries, and governments. We need tools to communicate to and with our surrounding nature to understand our role as humans to steward this Ship.“
Prepared in cooperation with ArtMill, CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) and Mlok Association
Anna Friz is a Canadian sound, transmission and media artist, and media studies scholar. Her work reflects upon media ecologies, infrastructure and environment, time perception, radio and transmission art histories, and critical fictions, with a focus on listening, improvisation, site-specificity, and repurposing technologies. Since 1998 she has created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also creates large-scale audiovisual installations and composes for film, theater, and contemporary dance. Her most recent works include the outdoor transmission sculpture Solar Radio (with Absolute Value of Noise) at Wave Farm, NY; the 22-hour live radio performance Fog Refrain, and We Build Ruins, a series of media art works expressively considering mining and industrial corridors in the high altitude deserts in northern Chile. Anna Friz is currently Associate Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://nicelittlestatic.com/Barbara Benish is a California-born artist, who moved from Los Angeles to Prague in 1992 as a Fulbright scholar. She founded ArtMill (est. 2004) in rural Bohemia, an international eco-art center. From 2010-2015 she served as Advisor for U.N.E.P. in Arts & Outreach, and since 2015 is a Fellow at the Social Practice Arts Research Center of University of California, Santa Cruz. She has taught at universities for over 30 years, including co-founder of the Experimental Graphics Atelier at the Academy in Brno, Czech Republic. Benish has co-authored two books on art and the environment (Routledge), and has an upcoming visual collaboration book with political philosophers Michael Shapiro and Sam Opondo (University of Manchester Press, 2024). Her mixed media work has critiqued historical tropes that have kept unsustainable systems operating, and most recently reflects and celebrates non-human living systems. Benish’s art has been shown in hundreds of international exhibitions including alternative spaces, galleries and museums such as P.S.1 in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles, Stadtgeschichtliche Museen in Nürnburg, Germany, and the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic.
www.barbarabenish.com
Five Uncertain Situations is the first collaboration of the Prague Quiet Music Collective with the Prague City Gallery. PQMC approached five contemporary composers who were inspired by five artworks from the GHMP collections, and in response, composed new pieces.
Curator Jitka Hlavackova met composer, musician, and dramaturg Ian Mikyska in 2021 in the café of the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, when he approached Prague City Gallery (GHMP) with the idea of setting to music part of the collections of the GHMP. This marked the beginnings of a remarkably interesting collaboration not just with Ian and his ensemble, the Prague Quiet Music Collective, but also with other young professional composers whose numbers, we hope, will continue growing regularly. The “composer’s team” for this pilot edition included the Slovak percussionist and composer based in Oslo Michaela Antalová, the American composer Jordan Dykstra, Sylvia Lim from the United Kingdom, and Czech composers Michal Wróblewski and Ian Mikyska. The aim of the collaboration inaugurated here is to gradu-ally develop an interdisciplinary dialogue between composers and works of visual and acoustic art of the 20th and 21st century and the creation of an open collection of original pieces of music related to artworks from the GHMP collections. The intended product of this collaboration is a cycle of concerts and exhibitions spread across several years, with Five Uncertain Situations being the first of these. In addition to the opening live concert, the project also includes presentations of the scores and recordings of these newly composed pieces, along with an exhibition of the selected artworks from our collection. The intended product of this collaboration is a cycle of concerts and exhibitions spread across several years, with Five Uncertain Situations being the first of these.
“The process of selecting the works Ian and I then presented to the invited composers as sources of inspiration for this edition was remarkable. We intuitively reached for works of an abstract or structural nature (though not exclusively); works that are related to existing forms of graphic notation; and, most importantly, processual pieces, or pieces whose conceptual makeup concerns temporality or impermanence. The resultant selection thus included kinetic sculpture, photography, video, performance documentation, and proces-sual or gestural paintings and drawings. The composers then made their decision based on this broader selection (following discussions with the curators and encounters with the works themselves), selecting as their sources of inspiration works by five Czech artists of various generations and aesthetic positions: Slovenian-born photographer Aleksandra Vajd, Czech sculptors active in the second half of the 20th century Stanislav Kolíbal and Radoslav Kratina, the sculptor Pavla Sceranková, and Marie Kratochvílová, a Brnoese photo-grapher mostly active in the 1970s and 1980s who was virtually unknown until recent years,” says Jitka Hlaváčková.
The opening live concert took plane on 9 December 2022, the project also included presentations of the scores and recordings of these newly composed pieces, along with an exhibition of the selected artworks.
Aleksandra Vajd, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations / Sylvia Lim: Overlapping Transformations
Radoslav Kratina, Frame in the “L” Shape / Michal Wróblewski: Variabily
Stanislav Kolíbal, Unstable Position / Jordan Dykstra: Unstable Position (5)
Stanislav Kolíbal, Unstable Position / Jordan Dykstra: Unstable Position (3)
Stanislav Kolíbal, Unstable Position / Jordan Dykstra: Unstable Position (7)
Pavla Sceranková, Collision of Galaxies II / Michaela Antalová: Kolize galaxií
Marie Kratochvílová, from the Snows cycle / an Mikyska: Tři sněhy pro čtyři – I.
Marie Kratochvílová, from the Snows cycle / Ian Mikyska: Tři sněhy pro čtyři – II.
Marie Kratochvílová, from the Snows cycle / Ian Mikyska: Tři sněhy pro čtyři – III.
Address
GHMP Dům fotografie
Revoluční 1006/5
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
Map
The building is barrier-free (elevator – call the phone T (+420) 702 283 922)
koncertní sál
Zdarma ke vstupence na výstavu
On Thursday January 26 at 6 pm you’re welcome to attend a concert by a folklore band Horňácká muzika of Petr Mička. The band will be performing at our exhibition Prague Pallas and Moravian Hellas, playing music that may have been heard by the ear of Auguste Rodin himself. The concert, which was originally scheduled to take place at the Stone Bell House, has been moved to the House of Photography.
Address
GHMP Colloredo-Mansfeld
Karlova 189/2
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
Map
The building is not barrier-free.
Accessibility
Sub A (Staroměstská station)
trams n. 2, 17, 18 (Karlovy lázně or Staroměstská stop)
zdarma ke vstupence na výstavu
Meeting in the exhibition with artist Erika Bornová and guitarist Pavel Steidl.
The event will be held in the Czech language.
