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activism
András Csefálvay, Natália Trejbalová, Diana Lelonek + 4 more
We would like to outline the conditions for a new sensibility and redefine our needs and future actions, based not only on the logic of endless production and consumption, exhausting fragile ecosystems. Last but not least, through this joint rearrangement of basic and small stones, we try to actively integrate non-growth strategies into our lives.
Budha Tamás Kovács, András Tábori
In the focus of the group’s activity, public and urban spaces are regarded as open exhibition places containing many different media that can be used for artistic self-expression. Their works are best interpreted within the network of urban life, public spaces and omnipresent, governing signs, reflecting on the very issue of big city existence and uncovering “hidden” phenomena.
Jasmina Metwaly
How do we speak the law? The enactment of the legal is a social construct brought about before the law and after its fictions. As socialised ghosts, our collective minds register each other’s codes, through methodical patterns of self-elevating humans.
The waves of the so called “color revolutions” in former soviet republics like Georgia (“rose revolution”) and the Ukraine (“orange revolution”) are types of uprisings for just and democratic presidential elections. The spirit of color revolution, characterized by the unsatisfactory state of the institution of elections and by struggles to establish it, is present in almost all the post-Soviet countries, but here we reserve the term color revolution for those countries where special early presidential elections took place.
Milan Mikuláštík
Milan Mikuláštík can hardly be defined solely as a curator. He is well- known above all as a distinctive artist, member of the duo MINA (together with Jan Nálevka) and the group Guma Guar, which he co-founded in 2003. His cooperation with this group as well as his own works – often critical and dealing with political structures of the globalized world – later lead to a similarly focused curator´s work.
Nikola Brabcová, Tereza Jindrová, Tereza Stejskalová + 1 more
Tereza Stejskalová is one of the most prominent feminist and critical voices on the Czech art scene. At present, she works as a curator in the initiative tranzit.cz and in the long term focuses on art critique.
As a curator, Stejskalová often works through postcolonial and feministic prism and her curatorial practice is typically an outcome of a long term research.
David Přílučík, Anna Remešová
It's obvious that the issue of the environment and ecology in art is increasingly becoming a consciously political decision that affects what art we create, how we teach it, how we talk about it, or how we present it. Artwork is intertwined with cultural activity, which is linked to activism and vice versa. The context, material used and financial resources are increasingly accentuated.
Lucie Rosenfeldová, Matěj Pavlík
The two-year artistic research project deals with the role of the protest image and its possible impact on real social, political, and economic changes. Through its individual outputs, the project offers multiple perspectives on the use of visual or audiovisual documentation as a possible emancipatory tool of the people.
Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling + 1 more
Conceptualized by Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling and Václav Janoščík, the conference brings together theorists, artists and organizers who collaborate and elaborate on their visions in order to discover junctures of overlap for thinking about the emancipatory potentials of the future.
Nikola Brabcová, Michal Klodner, Hana Janečková
We know and repeatedly analyze a host of issues with commercial social media and digital labour, but little attention is paid to efforts at building alternatives, such as community-run social media and other forms of de-platformization.
Against the totality of networks and corporately owned social media, what are workable strategies and ethical approaches that allow for alternative ways for our social life to emerge?
Rehana Zaman
Considering the changing nature of work under global capitalism and the role of female labour, the film ‘Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen’ (2014, dir. Rehana Zaman) is a contentious and highly engaging adoption of the conventions of British soap opera place alongside footage documenting meetings of migrant women in the UK at the self-led organisation Justice for Domestic Workers in Leeds.
Vojtěch Sigmund, Karolína Kripnerová, Janek Rous
The project Bellevue di Monaco takes place in several buildings in the centre of Munich. The buildings were supposed to be demolished in order to build new luxury apartments there. However, the plan was thwarted by a group of activists and their guerilla reconstruction of one of the flats. Consequently, the migration crisis in 2015 incited the foundation of an official cooperative involving several hundred local residents who rented the houses and turned them into a multifunctional centre.
Bojana Kunst
In the lecture, I would like to address the issue of the labour of the artist from the perspective of the feminist artistic work and discuss, how already from the end of the 1970s feminists artists engaged with the issues of the flexible and precarious work, the issues that are also so pertinent in the labour of the artist today. From the perspective of those artists, the exploration of labour opened new dimension how to understand and reflect upon labour of female artist and her emancipated life.
Diana Lelonek
Diana Lelonek explores relationships between humans and other species. Her projects are critical responses to the processes of over-production, unlimited growth, and our approach to the environment.
Kateryna Khramtsova
Kateryna Khramtsova filmed a short documentary about a non-binary performer and soldier entitled Qirim (2023), which has been screened at many film festivals, both here and abroad. In the accompanying essay, Kryštof Kočtář presents the film in the context of Khramtsova's artistic work.
Lukáš Gavlovský, Denisa Langrová, Pavel Novotný + 15 more
We can loosely understand the term intermezzo as a planned activity or pause deliberately "inserted" into life or work and associated, for example, with the need for rest, the necessity of transformation, a change of direction, and an escape from the rut of everyday life, everyday life, overcoming feelings of unfulfillment, the desire to help, move forward in life, or get involved in something new.
How and why the 4AM Forum for architecture and media was founded and how do its members see its management? How did their priorities change since the start, how can one finance organization, such as theirs and how do their plans and orientations evolve?