Category: Event

Sound design: Vít Jeřábek

The cyclical rhythm of nature, the flowing rhythm of time, and the changing rhythm of each individual meet, diverge, clash, and harmonize. The installation endeavors to create a safe space for slowing down and changing perspectives at a time when natural rhythms seem increasingly hidden.

Vít Jeřábek, Sound designer and musician, currently finishing his master’s degree at the Department of Sound Design at FAMU. In his professional practice, he has participated in the creation of a number of short films. In addition to film sound, he is currently intensively focused on game audio, sound installations, and his own musical production, for example as a member of the band jj dobry.

Anna Havelková, Costume designer and graduate of Scenography – Costume and Mask at DAMU. In her creative work, she focuses on drawing and graphic art. She is currently collaborating on stage productions for the Prague City Theaters with director Tomáš Ráliš and is also involved in projects with the JEDL theater company.

https://rhythms.bandcamp.com/track/mood-sketch

Photo credit: Eliška Klimešová

Opening: 7. 9. 2025 18:00
Exhibition: 8. – 14. 9. 2025 Open daily 13:00 – 19:00

Realization: Světlana Silič, Veronika Svobodová
Concept: PYL collective – Maryia Kamarova, Světlana Silič, Anna Romanova

Would you like to experience what it is like to be a flying insect approaching a soft drink? Or perhaps how to transform into an alternative fur seal? Or alternatively an alternative grasshopper? In Holidays From the Bigger World, the PYL collective offers these very possibilities to anyone who is tired of inhabiting a confined human body. 

Audiences of all ages are invited to set aside rational logic and dive headfirst into a new reality co-created with a plethora of unexpected species. By accepting the terms and conditions of this game, you can witness the sudden metamorphosis of a mobile phone box into a dolphin’s fin, or declare your affection to a futuristic Talking Swamp (in which you cannot drown). On this occasion, a gallery space becomes a playground on which you can create your own meaning. 

The project aims to discover possibilities of engagement with daily materials through embodiment and close interactions involving haptic, visual, and sonic senses. Its main focus is formulated around the materiality and the participative aspect of spectatorship in installation art. In this project, PYL collective explores scenographic settings that reduce the distance between the potential audience and the artwork. This is achieved through the use of interactive technologies, scores, and simple objects whose appearance prompts curiosity and provokes action.

Graphic: Žofia Fodorová

Photo: Ondřej Konrád

Acknowledgement: Theresa Schrezenmeir, GAMPA, Terén – pole performativního umění

Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Prague 7 – Art District 7

María Prada is a Spanish visual artist who lives and works in Pontevedra in Galicia. Her original education was in architecture. She studied the arts at the University of Vigo, where she is currently finishing her PhD project focused on the relationship of paintings and their material supports. In 2017 she presented its practical outcomes on her first solo exhibition. María Prada focuses on theoretical research and on collaborating with other artists.

http://mariaprada.es/

In this workshop participants will create a crude instrument. The instrument consists of a small electrical motor as sound-source and an interface made from cardboard and pushbuttons. The electrical motor used is a stepper motor, which produces resonant frequencies that resemble musical tones for different speeds.

During the workshop we will create a control signal (based on a 555-timer) and connect this to the motor driver. After we assembled the electronics we will play with interface design. The resulting object will be an electro-acoustic experimental instrument.

The workshop is suited for beginners as well as people with more advanced knowledge on the topic. Electronics can be provided pre-assembled to participants who are not familiar with building electronics themselves, so they can focus more on interface design. More advanced participants can first alter the design of the electronics, after which they will also build an interface.

Marloes van Son builds systems, installations and instruments. The electromechanical systems that she develops use and explore natural phenomena and everyday household appliances. By repurposing ordinary objects, she aims to create unusual yet familiar experiences. Many of her works start from a visual component, but sound is always an integral part of the eventual piece. Her current project, ‘Devices,’ deals with alternative electronic sound generators, using stepper-motors, unstable oscillators and Arduino-programs as sound-source.

The workshop takes place on the occasion of the “Non-Functioning Functionality” exhibition at GAMU and the produced devices will become part of the exhibition for the remaining two weeks. The workshop is for free.

Invited guests:

PhDr Milena Slavická
is an art historian, curator and author. She graduated from Charles Univeristy with a degree in History and Art History, later working for the National Gallery. Between 1990 and 1996 she was editor-in-chief for the magazine Výtvarné umění. She has been lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. As author she published her debut Povídky Jamrtálské. Along with philosopher and translator Jiří Fiala she edited and published the publication Vilém Flusser – The Power of the Image, Selected Philosophical Texts from the 80s and 90s.

Mgr. Kamil Nabělek
is a theorist, art historian and curator. He teaches at the departments of Art History and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec. He deals with the work of Vilém Flusser in his dissertation.

Mgr. Miloš Vojtěchovský
is a curator, publicist, practician, historian and art theorist. He teaches at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. He is a co-organized and conceptual author of the symposium entitled Excavating the Future which was held at the Goethe Institute in 2001.