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Special Projects
This year, the festival will present a number of special events and projects.
Kurt Gebauer
Climaxing
Simona Tagliaferri
Tulipano
Jakub Nepraš
Cultures
Ondřej Ševčík
Electronic Evolution
Morgane Tschiember
To Gather
Adam Vačkář
The Slap
Darina Alster
Personal Tarot
Darina Alster
Personal Tarot for Tina B. 2007
MAGDALENA JETELOVÁ
KURT GEBAUER
JAN VLČEK
An exceptional multimedia performance by Czech artists Magdalena Jetelová, Kurt Gebauer and Jan Vlček combining light, sound and pyrotechnics will take place at the location of the former Stalin Monument on Letná on October 3, 2007, at 9 pm. For best views of the performance, visitors are advised to select locations on the banks of the river Vltava.
SIMONA TAGLIAFERRI
An exhibition of work by Italian artist Simona Tagliaferri entitled “Illusions and Dreams” will be held at Museum Kampa, one of Prague's most prestigious art locations, from September 26 until October 5. Her exhibition investigates the borders between art, design and fashion, challenging the ways we perceive objects produced by these fields of creative endeavour.
JAKUB NEPRAŠ
Jakub Nepraš, who was awarded the main prize at this year's Artefiera ART FIRST art fair in Bologna, has prepared a special installation of his videocollage "Cultures" at Prague's Laterna Magika theatre. "Cultures“ represent unknown organisms full of microscopic life. As in society and natural systems, they are governed by an ordered hierarchy with central elements and circulation systems ensuring the supply of nutrients, or the information exchange between the different functional parts of the interconnected community of our superorganism.
ONDŘEJ ŠEVČÍK
ELECTRONIC EVOLUTION is an installation demonstrating the principle of visual feedback. It consists of an endless, electronic virtual space containing a strange “intelligence”. The space is capable of capturing and holding any quantity of light supplied (from a candle flame, for example) and transforming it into countless variations of fantastic structures, each with an independent existence. Exhibited at the Eco-technical Museum.
MORGANE TSCHIEMBER
Morgane Tschiember's site-specific installation entitled "To Gather" in Prague's Projekt Vernon gallery is one of the highlights of this year's Special Projects section.
ADAM VAČKÁŘ
In his confrontational video entitled Slap, Adam Vačkář allows himself to be hit by an anonymous person standing out of view behind the camera (we may well imagine that it is in fact the viewer smacking the artist). Vačkář’s face is covered with powder and each time his face is struck a cloud of white dust comes off his face. The scene is repeated several times, each time it is almost identical, but not quite - this is a choreographed minimalistic video that attempts to interpret the attitudes of the artist and the world around him.
DARINA ALSTER
I am attracted by the cards of the Tarot major arcana because of their ambivalence. It is a compendium of various forms of energy that do not exist in their pure forms, somewhat like Jung’s archetypes. The mobile phone is akin to an individual entity, much like a Tarot Trump. That is why I am interconnecting these two media (one coming to us from the past, the other from the future) in the form of an interactive installation. This modification of my project, premiered at Tina B. 2007, uses twenty-two Samsung mobile phones, each of which is named after a Tarot card with corresponding content. Every phone contains a performance video, as well as other elements illustrating the card’s meaning; the viewer can thumb through a phone's contents, or call it and communicate with it via the network.
Darina Alster