While most people have art experiences in the gallery, some might have Unexperiences.
During the opening night there will be a performance by Florin Flueras. Unexperiences are inserted in “inappropriate” contexts where something else is already happening. Unexperiences are activated by performers who shift their attitudes and moods, embodying and slightly distorting various emotions. Sometimes their hyper-embodied abstract reactions seem to be related to the space, other people, objects, or to shared expectations and conventions.
Performers: Eliza Trefas, Martina Piazzi, Flori Flueras
Unexperiences happen at random times during the opening evening and then during the opening hours of the exhibition, also they are scheduled on July 21 & 23 at 4 pm.
Florin Flueras
Florin Flueras: Unexperiences
Address
GHMP Knihovna
Mariánské náměstí 98/1
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město Map
Barrier-free access is provided via the entrance from Valentinská Street (elevator).
While most people have art experiences in the gallery, some might have Unexperiences.
During the opening night there will be a performance by Florin Flueras. Unexperiences are inserted in “inappropriate” contexts where something else is already happening. Unexperiences are activated by performers who shift their attitudes and moods, embodying and slightly distorting various emotions. Sometimes their hyper-embodied abstract reactions seem to be related to the space, other people, objects, or to shared expectations and conventions.
Performers: Eliza Trefas, Martina Piazzi, Flori Flueras
Unexperiences happen at random times during the opening evening and then during the opening hours of the exhibition, also they are scheduled on July 21 & 23 at 4 pm.
Florin Flueras
transparadiso: Internacionální Togetherhood
Address
Internacionální, Prague-Suchdol
The Austrian art group transparadiso, i.e. Barbara Holub and Paul Rajakovics, has prepared an artistic performance “Internacionální Togetherhood” in cooperation with the City District Prague-Suchdol and the Czech Agricultural University, for Suchdol citizens, students and teachers of the Czech Agricultural University, and general public. After the thorough assessment of the current situation, both transparadiso and the Prague City Gallery decided to delay infinitely the final artistic intervention, formerly scheduled for March 23, 2022.
This being said, the ideas that gave birth to the performance are still alive and get stronger. The main mission of the long-prepared event was to support the ideas of solidarity, vicinity, cooperation and communication – i.e. timeless values that are now, when war has illuminated all our actions by a completely new light, more important than ever. The ability of coexistence and tolerance and the willingness for mutual support and cooperation is clearly the key not only for better quality of our lives but for the mere survival.
The “Internacionální Togetherhood” project was based on the open call of the Prague City Gallery (program “Art for the City / TriangulUM”) to create a temporary artwork in the public space. The initial aim was to open a public debate on the communication of the Prague-Suchdol Municipality and the Czech University of Agriculture; they have been living in close proximity here for seventy years, in mutual respect but without any visible connection.
After a series of meetings and the thorough survey, international authors became truly interested in the situation, which inspired them in terms of social and spatial (urbanistic) relations. The results was the project of artistic performance attended by the representatives of both communities (City District and the University) and artists. During a symbolic allegoric procession from the Suchdol Townhall to the rector’s office and back, existing physical obstacles were to be overcome, and speeches and artistic interventions were to be made. The procession was to be lead by a group of participants with the “Blanket of Knowledge” – a wide strip of fabric that could “clothe” up to 20 people. To walk and overcome physical obstacles in this “collective body” requires good mutual coordination and cooperation of all participants – in symbolic contrast to everyday behavior that favors individual interests.
The artists were inspired by the metaphorical situation of two squares in Suchdol, connected by the symbolically named Internacionální (International) Street. The aim of this “celebration of solidarity” was to ask important questions: What does the full circle and semicircle of both squares symbolize? Can the semicircle in front of the university open the space for unplanned visions to connect both areas and communities? What can be done to support these visions and struggle for their expression in the physical space?
The English name of the intervention is an intended pun – the idea and the form of the “Blanket of Knowledge” are based on shared actions, so the blanked is symbolically fitted with twenty hoods referring to hidden knowledge, inevitably present in the community. The idea of connecting a group of people, sharing the same interest, to a single “collective body” was realized, for example, by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape in Rio de Janeiro in 1968. Her essential work “Divider”, using a similar textile object, was reperformed several times in various social and political contexts (such as in Hong Kong in 2013). Divider is based on the shared experience, but also on chance, improvisation, and experiments; it blazes the way to appropriate any public space, introduce creative changes into urban lives, and disrupt the space between the art and the audience. The approach of transparadiso was a bit different: the “Blanket of Knowledge” is site-specific and context-specific, as it creates the space for shared activities and for overcoming borders in both physical and metaphorical sense, as Utopian visions of coexistence.
On a personal level, both artworks explore ambivalent emotions we experience when deciding between personal individual comfort and solidarity with collective interests through shared activities. The importance of this level has grown exponentially in the context of the political and humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The current events prove that the idea of Internacionální Togetherhood was fulfilled and realized in this critical moment – not in the artistic context but in real life. The Czech Agricultural University now provides accommodation and other care for hundreds of Ukrainian women and children, while the Suchdol Townhall funds their meals and schooling. In the terrifying set of unspeakably cruel reality, the ideas of solidarity materialize to the extent no one could ever imagine. Let’s hope we can return to the original idea and capitalize on the energy invested into the project by international artists and local realization team, when we’re finally able to focus on beautifully ordinary everyday joys and worries. Let’s hope together these times will come soon.
transparadiso is a transdisciplinary practice founded by artist Barbara Holub and architect and urbanist Paul Rajakovics in 1999. It implements projects between art, artistic urban interventions, architecture, and urbanism. In addition, they research and develop (but also teach and publish) artistic strategies for “Direct Urbanism”, a socially engaged process-oriented urban planning. In their projects, exhibitions, and urban interventions, transparadiso deals with current social and urban issues, especially the search for shared values of coexistence. They create performative situations that encourage the city inhabitants to act, to return responsibility to the individual and to address the conflict between personal interests and common welfare. Barbara Holub and Paul Rajakovics received the Austrian National Art Prize in 2018, the Urban Design Prize (2006) and many other awards. Barbara Holub was President of the Secession Vienna (2006-2007) and member committee of the Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich (2005–2007).
Silent /within the TANEC PRAHA festival/
Address
Václav Havel Square / piazzetta of the National Theater
SILENT is an audio performance for a group of audience members in public space that consists of movement/workout instructions for body and thought over the course of 35 minutes. The audio is started by one voice and continued by the next to create a series of voices that together develop one landscape of thought and movement.
SILENT responds to the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on the public space, on closed borders and the inability to travel, on exposed vulnerabilities of our bodies. How do we as individuals in such a world connect with each other? What does the body remember and what does it forget? Can we create new bonds? Can we experience closeness in such a world? How have our bodies changed in this time? The body in the main role – in the space between loneliness and sharing. Explore a new experience with us!
The performance takes place with headphones, which will be available for everyone to borrow on site.
The performance follows up on other activities of the international research project DANCING MUSEUMS, of which SILENT is a part.
The organizer is TANEC PRAHA in cooperation with the Prague City Gallery and the National Theatre.
The Tea Ceremony is an ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of landscapes. When you taste the leaves of the slow-growing ancient trees, which are mostly wild but cultivated tea trees that are almost 100 years old, you can activate many blocked sensors. As a result, there may be a moment of silence that can make us think of the power of non-image memory.
Achieving a spiritual state of selflessness and peacefulness through the preparation and sharing of one bowl of tea, I emphasize that I am sharing something that is both dear to me and so familiar from everyday life.
Iva Polanecká (*1990) is an audiovisual artist interested in the invisible areas of the world. Her relationship with nature, which she tries to communicate to the viewer, is mirrored in the inner and intimate feelings of a person. She abstracts the given reality, but still leaves room for the imagination of the human mind. Her works are often site-specific sound installations, audio works, field recordings or performances.
9 pm — No Man Steps into the Same River Twice / Auxig
(aprox. 35 min)
An audiovisual performance by the international collective Auxig responds to the Baroque garden in a contemporary context with relation to the change in the environmental perceptions. The artistic group turns the focus of the viewer towards the topic of water, reflecting and questioning the relationship to water as a tamed element. Through their site-specific intervention, the artists highlight the unsustainability of this position, perceiving this isolating attitude as problematic.
Therefore, the artists embody the perspective of the river and abandon their usual way of perception – the audiovisual materials used for the performance are taken in direct contact with the river (hydrophone, underwater camera). The collective brings the river back into the garden environment with the help of field recordings and site-specific projections, thus drawing attention to the interconnection, even dependence, of the entire site on the water of the Wild Vltava.
Auxig is an international collective of sound and visual artists based in Ústí nad Labem – Petr Hanžl (CZ), Polina Khatsenka (BY), Jan Krombholz (CZ) and Barry Yuk Bun Wan (HK). The basis of their work is open collaboration, time-based media and working with conceptual and physical space, which each artist treats with their own distinctive approach and technique. Their most common form of presentation is audiovisual site-specific performances, which often result in spatial installations.
The topics most often addressed in their work are the context of place, acoustic ecology, field recordings, interactivity and the blurring of the boundaries of authorship.
Organized by GHMP within the Bio Troja project in cooperation with Artbiom
Martin Zet and Vladimír Havlík: The Fifty-Ninth (performance)
A site-specific performance with audiocassettes and field recordings.
Aki Onda is a musician, performer and curator who was born in Japan and lives in New York. He will introduce his long-term project Cassette Memories, a work made up of audio diaries, i.e. field recordings made on cassette recorder over the last thirty years while travelling around the world. Onda combines compositions, performances and audiovisual installations from his archive. He collaborates with filmmakers, artists, musicians and choreographers such as Ken Jacobs, Michael Snow, Paul Clipson, Raha Raissnia, Takashi Makino, Daisuke Yokota, Maxime Rossi, Annea Lockwood, Loren Conners, Alan Licht, MV Carbon, Che Chen, Tashi Dorji, Noël Akchoté, Jean-François Pauvros, Jac Berrocal, David Toop, Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Nao Nishihra, Toshio Kajiwara and Takao Kawaguchi. He has appeared at The Kitchen, MoMA, PS1 MOMA, ISSUE Project Room, Blankforms, ICA Philadelphia, REDCAT, the Time-Based Art Festival, the Image Festival, Novas Frequências, dokumenta 14 and at the Musée du Louvre, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier and Présences électronique.
The accompanying programme SONIC CIRCUITS to the exhibition Sounds, Codes, Images: Acoustic Experimentation in the Visual Artscomprises a series of performances and events that take place in the lecture hall of the Stone Bell House, the Colloredo-Mansfeld ballet hall, and in public space. The programme offers visitors a unique opportunity to get familiar with the multifaceted work of Czech and foreign artists, some of whom work with sound within the context of visual arts, while others examine sound as a theme within space-time, mathematical, performative, environmental or social contexts. SONIC CIRCUITS is an examination of the current sound art scene in the Czech Republic, as well as a chance to check out sound and audiovisual art on an international level.
Aki Onda
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