Concert of Hans van Koolwijk in the former Electrical Works Building in Prague-Bubeneč, 1 May, 2016

My interdisciplinary artistic research is inspired by ants, by their social mimesis, social resilience and social metamorphosis, by their being and becoming with others. Ants are symbionts in relation to their ecosystem, in the sense that they participate in mutual and parasitic couplings with the environment, hosting other organisms and creating opportunities for the emergence of new social encounters.

This poem was written between 3 August and 23 September, 2017 in Libušín, Ústí nad Labem, Pardubice, Mariánské Radčice and Libkovice.

Soulkostel isn’t easy to find, even with GPS. You must go all the way through Vernéřovice and, almost at the end, turn off onto a grassy lane.

We met with Tomáš Kaiser, the director of the Bart Society, in early October at the 15th annual Apple Festival, which took place in the Pilsen region directly on the summit and slope of Krasíkov hill. The event could be seen from far away, as the slope of the hill (which, just beyond the trees, is graced with some beautiful castle ruins) was speckled with parked cars — this year a few thousand visitors came to the event. Directly below the castle, the Bart association was running a benefit kiosk selling pastries and coffee, whose earnings would go to support the society’s activities.

Rie Nakajima and Pierre Berthet (JP/FR), Kink Gong (Laurent Jeanneau, FR), Pátí Na Světě and others

Veronika Romhány is an intermedia artist, currently very interested in 3D animation and 3D virtual environments.

The event eventually blossomed into an informal but concerted international symposium which hosted participants from numerous European countries, among them Greece, Slovenia, or the UK

This lecture was given as part of the Soundworms Ecology Gathering on September 23, 2017.

ProgramHomeostasis. 2017, 24 min.Echoes. Miloš Šejn, 1979, 5 min.Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. James Crump, 2015, USA, 68 min.

A textual sketch for an artist talk presented at the Soundworms gathering, September 2017 in Mariánské Radčice, Czechia.

The idea for this workshop is to use LocusCast, an app that streams to our Icecast server from mobile phones, as a basis for a group performance. The working principle is to consider the paths taken by several different “streamers” as complementary sound tracks or as a score, and to remix and spatialize the streams live in an auditorium.

František Novák welcomed us in Třešť directly in front of the shop Potřeby at no. 4 Roosevelt St. He immediately started explaining: the “art supermarket” comprises of a shop window (formerly used for showcasing farm equipment) and the two small, sparsely furnished rooms adjacent to it.

Tin cans, whistles, locomotive suspension springs, porcelain bowls, compressor top bells, ping pong balls, dry agave leaves, sponges, steel wires, branches, paper foils, plastic bags, silver papers, pink gloves, piano, balloons, buckets, feathers, water, scraps, peebles, flower pots, guitar, metal tubes, paulownia tree seeds, pearls, bamboo sticks, logs, bones, stones, filters.

Zauhlovačka is a project which directly draws from the strong genius loci of its place, in this case the former water tower in the town of Vratislavice nad Nisou, not far from Liberec.

Aplogies, this article is only available in Czech.

More than a century ago, Italy witnessed something that would forever change art and its forms of expression. In 1913, the Futurist painter Luigi Russolo published his manifesto L’arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises) in response to Francesco Balilla Pratella’s Manifesto dei musicisti futuristi (Manifesto of Futurist Musicians), encompassing fundamental ideas for the new music of the modern age.

An evening program of supermedia presenting the activities of The Peerless Brotherhood of the Holy Nurture, Universal Psychiatric Church 316a, The Holy Scrap Unit, with several views on trash. During the evening the ceremony of the small Poodja.

Join us for the festival Experience the City Anew (Zažít město jinak) on Vojtěšská St.,  16 September, 2017.

Miroslav Tóth (solo for soprano and alto saxophone)Zdeněk Závodný (solo for baritone, soprano saxophone and tarogató)Milan Guštar (acousmatic composition)

We chatted with Petr Karásek about the society Kuprospěchu (FortheBetter), and about the difficulties of organizing cultural events without the city's support.

For the Gathering in Mariánské Radčice we have selected a number of project proposals. What follows is a preliminary program.

At first sight, Střítež is a common village near Polička in the region of Eastern Bohemian. However, when you enter the courtyard of one of the local houses, you enter Planet Chaos.

Professor Shell, who has been working in Prague as part of the Agosto residency program, spoke to us about the development of camouflage, her film work, and her fascination with “the skins of things”.

Upon arriving in Strakonice, the South Bohemian town’s impression is a modest one. Although settled in the latter half of the 12th century, and boasting a moated castle on the Otava River built shortly thereafter, the large-scale urban reconstruction of the 1970s demolished many of the historical buildings that had given Strakonice the fairy-tale quality typical of many old Czech towns.

Kuai Shen is a naturalist and media artist who has been loving and studying ants for over 16 years. His hybrid installations explore the interspecies relationships in the natural/artificial continuum, inspired on one hand by the emergence and self-organization of ants, and on the other, by the subjective intertwining of parasites, microorganisms and viruses in relation to mimicry, affects, and the forces of becoming.

by Petr Slabý

Our video series continues with this interview with Praed, a duo (Raed Yassin and Paed Conca) who improvise with music influenced by everything from Egyptian pop, free jazz, and elecronics.