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performative lecture
Eva Koťátková
Instead of students, the building was temporarily inhabited by creatures created by the artist, and the footage is accompanied by Koťátková’s gentle, sensitive, yet critical voiceover (letter to the school). It is complemented by the echoes of children’s voices and quotes from the school rules, serving as a reminder of how strongly the elementary school environment shaped us. What memories do we carry into adulthood from the spaces of gyms, locker rooms, cafeterias, desks, and “in front of blackboards”? 
Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican’s performative lecture takes the form of a monologue that goes through various levels of consciousness and links subjective testimony with attempts to disturb systems of knowledge and create his own cosmology.
Kamila Valešová, Michaela Cagáňová
One of the enduring questions we explore this last year is whether scent and smells can be used as a tools for storytelling. The sociology and politics of scent remain largely unexplored, yet we all recognise that scents are often subject to rigid labels and gender stereotypes. Primarily however, scents represent interspecies narratives, as animals and plants primarily communicate through scent, without the need for language.