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Hands-Antennas: Protocols from Extrasensory Aesthetics

The presentation of ongoing research into the history of Czechoslovak psychotronics, its institutional and ideological context, as well as its potential overlaps into contemporary art and the search for possibilities of extrasensory aesthetics and understanding without words.

The exhibition presents a research focused on psychotronics in socialist Czechoslovakia in relation to material and spiritual conditions of the time. The term psychotronics has been applied in the local environment since the late 1960s, when it generally referred to the “theory of distant interactions between subjects and between subjects and objects,” and referred to phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis and telegnosis. The exhibition suggests the historical context of psychotronics, in particular with an emphasis on its institutionalisation in the 1970s and 1980s, while utilising partial knowledge of psychotronics in its own strategy of exposition, which then opens up to the extrasensory perception.

artistsMatěj Pavlík, Jan Kolský, Peter Sit, Vojtěch Märc
curatorsMatěj Pavlík, Jan Kolský, Peter Sit, Vojtěch Märc
placeAteliér Josefa Sudka
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castMatěj Pavlík, Jan Kolský, Peter Sit, Vojtěch Märc
cameraJiří Žák
soundJiří Žák
editingJiří Žák
interviewJiří Žák
translationDeana Kolenčíková
categoryReports
published13. 11. 2017
languageČesky / English
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Hands-Antennas: Protocols from Extrasensory Aesthetics
As we find ourselves in times that have extensive socio-political implications, the exhibition thematizes the insecurity, the suspicion and post-factuality gradually digging into our lives more and more. The many ambivalent mechanisms trough which we cope with this uncertainty and multiplicity of artistic processes (either politically-critical, or completely non-factual and sensual, scientific or even speculative) of the abandonment of what is considered “real” or “rational” take their forms in the interconnected realms of the technological, the natural, the mystical, the symbolical.