Category: Exhibition

Pedagogical support: Veronika Daňhelová, Markéta Kinterová, Rudo Prekop, Nina Šperanda

Annual exhibition of students of the FAMU Studio of Documentary Strategies and the Studio of Imaginative Photography

Photo credit: Eliška Klimešová

The group exhibition All that is solid melts like my blush after a long shift explores the dynamics of burnout, alienation, and representation in the context of late capitalism. Through various artistic approaches, it focuses on the processes forming subjectivity within an environment where authenticity is not a given essence, but rather a constantly negotiated construct. Identity thus becomes transformed into a transaction commodity which gradually dissolves the boundaries between self-presentation and adaptation. 

The neoliberal narrative of productive self-development promises success by ceaselessly working on oneself, through strategic self-regulation and optimization – but in fact, such an approach generates a permanent state of expectation. The idea of progress is based on a constantly receding, conditional horizon. The exhibition takes this paradox as its focus: burnout is not a side effect of capitalist logic, but its direct product. The body, the mind, and affective economics remain subject to rhythms oscillating between overload and emptiness, projection and disillusionment. 

Instead of merely representing crisis, the exhibition explores ways in which the aesthetics of such an experience change, and the ways in which they can be visually articulated. It explores how previously subversive codes gradually become part of cultural and market-inflected environments. Gestures of resistance and critique often transform into stylized artefacts whose original power is dulled by repetition and aestheticization. Here, nostalgia is not a form of sentimental regression but rather a symptom of exhaustion where the future remains locked within recycled images of the past. 

What options open up when imagination churns within a closed loop of familiar patterns? How to overcome the boundary between authenticity and performance? If the old world is falling apart and the new has not yet been born, can this liminal moment open a space for change? The exhibition does not approach such antitheses as firmly separate categories, but rather shows the ways in which they mutually overlap and merge. It focuses on liminal moments when authenticity is not just a matter of identity but also a survival strategy within the economy of affect. 

Emilia Kurylowicz – Watching Porn with My Mom (Rubber Ghost), (13 min, audio)  

Rubber Ghost is an anecdotal poem about one of the artist’s experiments, in which they are exposing their parents to awkward or controversial situations in order to break the conditioning, (re-)build the connection, and perhaps administer microdoses of non-normative ways of living. The artist is offering their mother to watch an art-porn film (on the set of which they worked as a talent manager). Dissecting the awkwardness of the moment, stretched into “infinity,” becomes a self-inflicted boundary test enacted through broken taboo, porn vocabulary, family memories, and reverences of paradise-like states. 

Here presented as an audio work, the text is accompanied by a soundtrack made with their mouth (smacking and slurping), an ambient musical background, and the amplified sound of squishing rubber gloves. 

 Maxima Smith – Kopykat (Kardashian Triptych), (5 min. loop, video) In Kopykat (Kardashian Triptych)

Smith shadows the Kardashian sisters’ movements through painstaking repetition. Their projected image sits on top of the artist’s grey skin, enacting a form of moi-peau, a double-sided hide shared between Smith and the Kardashians, with the eyes and the mouth becoming abject portals to the fleshy body beneath the digitised surface. Smith shadows their movements over and over, the repetition emphasising the performativity of the moment, and through mimicry, she begins to un-do the Kardashians’ subjecthood, reinforcing the drama of femininity that is at play within these moments. The tracing of their gestures by the artist’s body becomes strangely uncanny, and as Smith’s body tires, they slip in and out of each other’s movements. 

 Meii Soh – We might need some sleep, (20 min, video) 

A fictional essay unfolds from an unrequited love story between the self and their soul. In search of closure, photographs become portals to fantasy. As daydreams take shape, sandy landscapes reveal a secret aperture – leading deep into the camera’s lens. 

Sille Kima – Brilliance, (10 min, video) 

Brilliance is a wet and bright film, a scattering dream of a coming-of-age among the ruins of empires, a firing of synapses, a remembrance song, and that moment when you close your eyes in the warmth of the sun. 

Starting with the fictional character of a teenager Agathe, living on the outskirts of what used to be Prague, the film blends autofiction with dreamscapes, living memories with futures hovering without time, along with archival footage from my family’s amateur film archives in Estonia, spanning throughout the changing statehoods and recording mediums from 1960s to 2000s. 

Tereza Dvořáková AKA Vivat Život & David Jasek – Silence of Answers (textile, digital print) 

What if the only thing we can rely on today is uncertainty? This reliquary does not contain fragments of the material world but rather those things we remain unconscious of – feelings of doubt, being adrift, opening to endless possibilities, to plasticity. It is a vessel for a sense of “I don’t know” – but not as lack but rather as a positive quality. It captures the fragility of knowledge and the awareness of its mutability. It reminds us that understanding is not the ultimate goal, but rather a constant movement between a question and its answer. The emptiness of the reliquary invites us to walk through it; it tempts us to reevaluate stable paradigms and open up to the unfathomable. The reliquary is made in pseudo-renaissance style and is decorated with techno-fossil features, connecting historical references with modern technologies, and indicating the connection between past and future. The present constantly expands, endlessly shaping new ways of life. 

 Tereza Dvořáková AKA Vivat Život – Life Is a Mystery (textile, embroidery, sound device) 

A stone, a core, a seed – the symbolic flash disk contains the entire potential of its kind. The attractiveness of Madonna’s singing does not take us to the here and now. Our sense of introspection leads us through timeless vistas, kept in perspective by the greater whole. Layers of impossibility become a force, the essence of life. 

The embroidered surface contains fragments of stories which cannot be completely deciphered. Sound is neither a part of the past nor the present but remains somewhere between, in their ungraspable interval. The stone becomes a holy item. 

 Zuzana-Markéta Macková – Tralalily (4 min, video) 

The Tralalily video was produced for this exhibition and acts as a mood setter, initiating the audience into their expectations. It follows the life of a virtual lily imprisoned in an indeterminate environment – a club aesthetic. Uncontrollably transforming every few seconds, the flower sings, expressing her alienation and frustration from the situation. 

This endless cycle of instability illustrates Gramsci’s idea that “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” The lily can never become fixed in one form, nor can it move through the threshold towards real transformation. Its existence oscillates between dissolution and constant adaptation. And lilies are present not only in the video, but also in the exhibition’s physical space. While the digital lily remains imprisoned in the cycle of endless change, her real counterparts undergo the natural process of dying. 

Artist bios: 

David Jasek BIO: 

David Jasek is a graphic designer whose work straddles the boundary between digital design, generative design, and textile work. His work experiments with visual approaches, such as generating graphic design through coding, thus shifting the boundaries of our traditional understandings of what design can be. Typography plays a key role in his work, which he connects with motion design, allowing him to create dynamic visual projects and unique graphic concepts. He focuses on the relationship between the digital environment and the individual, explores the connection of physical and virtual identity, and searches for new methods of visual expression. His conceptions reflect technological and social changes, and his work asks about the ways graphic design is able to react to them. His work exists somewhere between visual art and design, constantly discovering new possibilities of connecting aesthetics and technologies. 

Emilia Kurylowicz BIO: 

Emilia Kurylowicz aka aemlx (pronounced emil) is a transdisciplinary performer, music producer, and organizer from Lodz, Poland, currently living in Berlin. Their work operates in liminal spaces between art and entertainment, playfulness and mourning, awkwardness and pathos. By subverting genres, creating alter egos, and using humor as a mode of knowledge production, they attempt to devise tools for navigating the world in the reality of system collapse. They are also a co-creator of the platform @sabbath.berlin dedicated to amplifying the voices of artists and communities from Eastern-Europe, the Balkans, Baltic regions, ex-Eastern Bloc, as well as the manager/mc of a queer wrestling platform @liminalbeastofprey____ 

Maxima Smith BIO:

Maxima Smith’s work, primarily based in moving image, examines the mediation of the camera, somatic processing, and is influenced by the slippage between sincerity and absurdity. She questions feminine archetypes and roles, critiquing gendered acts such as mimicry to reinforce the performativity of gender. Smith situates much of her work in the 

blurred boundary between ‘on’ and ‘off-stage,’ where questions arise of how we act and perform ourselves. In parallel, Smith holds a position on the board of executives of Artists Union England. She earned her MA from the Dutch Art Institute in 2023 and obtained her BA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2016. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Crocodile Tears (Solo), Asylum Studios Gallery, Suffolk, UK (2024); Mirroring, Theater De Uitkijk, De Sloot, De Appel & Theatre Bellevue, Netherlands (2024); Crying with My Family (Solo), LADA, London (2024); Where the Moon is Up, Centrales Fies, Trento, Italy (2023); Invisible Goddess, Venice, Italy (2023); Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London (2022, 2020, 2018); Pixelache2019, Oranssi, Helsinki (2019); Ode to a Window Cleaner (Solo), The People’s Palace, London (2019). 

Meii Soh BIO: 

Meii Soh is a researcher, performer, writer, and dog-sitter whose work examines the intersection of human and non-human storytelling. They mediate presence and space through disassociation, speculation, poetry, and sonic materialism, re-imagining friendship, love, and parasitism as complex methods of co-existence and co-habitation. As such, Meii’s work challenges audiences to enter immersive dialogues on the obscure, camouflaged, and invisible connections between beings. 

Their work has recently been presented in the context of Nieuwe Instituut, Cashmere Radio, SEA Foundation, pocoapoco, Centrale Fies, Solipsism Magazine, de appel, among others. 

Meii holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon and Sint Lucas Antwerpen, where they engaged in critical studies. Recently, they graduated with a master’s in Artistic Research from the Dutch Art Institute. Presently, Meii curates at GROTTO in Berlin as part of their interest in programming and eagerness to counter-individualism and capitalistic forms of gathering. 

Sille Kima BIO: 

Sille Kima is an artist and a musician whose work is rooted in the haptics of the sonic. Their work ascribes to the poethics of embodied practices, both of the places they are from and where they hover. She uses her vocals as her main instrument for making spatiotemporally located sound installations, live performances, radio plays, spoken word, writings, and artist films in support of a work of nonlinear and speculative worldbuilding around the crooked grammars of affection – from intimate relationships to the social and political. Recently, their work has been dealing with light – an element holding the possibility of both enormous violence and nourishing warmth simultaneously. 

They have played live shows at Sabbath (90mil Berlin), UNM festival (Reykjavik), and Daylight Project (Tallinn) and collaborated for radio shows on Dublab LA, Montez Press New York, radio Alhara, Lyl radio, and Radiophrenia Glasgow. Their performances and installative work have recently been shown at Dammweg & Para/text (Berlin), Water Tower (Viljandi), Kanal (Võru), Centrale di Fies, NIDA Art Colony, and Salina, and they have been to residencies at Mustarinda, pAIR, Kordon, and NART. She also occasionally teaches at the intersection of land justice and solidarity at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is one of the founders of Kreenholm Plants in the border town of Narva. 

 Tereza Dvořáková (AKA Vivat Život) BIO: 

Tereza Dvořáková’s textile works explore the tension between sign, text, and meaning. She uses abstract forms to create connection between imagination and the symbolic order. She translates culturally-specific references into a universal language by transforming them through materials, shapes, and words. Her work reassesses the import of cultural heritage, reflecting an eclectic present which prompts a redefinition of the status quo and fosters an active approach to the formulation of meaning. Utility is a very specific feature of her artistic work, allowing her viewers to grasp her meaning and develop a connection by means of their own identity and through personal intervention. She calls deadstock and second-hand materials “materials with history,” and they form an integral part of her style and her striving for sustainability and plasticity. She combines traditional work processes with digital tools and flat images with plastic ones, and her work presents a visual rendition of the contemporary approach to the relationship between history and the future. Tereza is a member of the Fuga artistic society. 

 Zuzana-Markéta Macková BIO: 

Zuzana-Markéta Macková is a Czech artist and curator who lives and works between Berlin and Prague. She works with video, audio games, LARP, and immersive performance, through which she explores topics such as hypercapitalism, Eastern European identity, and conspiracy theories. Her work manipulates the viewers through humor, pop-cultural references, and a meta-modern approach. Zuzana-Markéta often critiques the authenticity of human actions during the era of late capitalism. She received an MA at the Dutch Art Institute (2021–2023), where she focused on hauntology and Lacan’s analysis of Capital. She has a BcA from FAMU (2019–2021) from the Department of Photography and the Studio of New Aesthetics. Her work has been presented at 90mil (Berlin, DE), BACO (Bergamo, IT), Centrale Fies (Dro, IT), DOCK (Basel, CH), Fotopub (Novo Mesto, SL), GHMP (Praha, CZ), Mustarinda (Hyrynsalmi, FI), and NIDA Art Colony (Nida, LT). She is a member of Display – Association for research and collective praxis, and part of the ACUD space in Berlin. She used to be a curator of Galerie Panel, co-founded the Until Further Notice experimental audio collective, and currently works with Simona Binko from the Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin on the series CCAiB, which maps the networks of Eastern European artists active on the German art scene.

Translation: Vít Bohal

Technical support: Ondřej Konrád

Installation photos: Jan Kolský

Performance photos: Eliška Klimešová

AMU Gallery announces an open call for exhibition projects to complement the gallery’s program for 2026. 

The call is intended for both Czech and foreign artists and curators, applications may be sent both in Czech or in English.

Due to the wide spectrum of subjects taught at AMU (The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) we prefer thematic, curatorial exhibition projects with interdisciplinary overlap, or exhibitions based around artistic research. 

The projects can be registered until the 30th of April, 2025 at gamu@famu.cz

Required application materials:

• a detailed description of the project, including visual documentation which takes into account the gallery’s spatial dimensions (max. three standard pages of text)
• a structured CV/bio of the applicant
• brief CVs/bios of the exhibited artists, including a showcase of their work / links

to online portfolio

• the exhibition’s budget (possibly with proposed additional sources of funding)

The AMU Gallery provides:

• oversight at the exhibition
• technical support
• graphic processing and printing of accompanying materials 
• basic PR 
• production costs up to CZK 40,000 (fees, material), depending on the gallery’s budget for the given year

The gallery’s blueprint and photo documentation of the exhibition space can be found on the gallery’s website.

here

Students of the Multimedia studio of the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.  

The exhibition at AMU Gallery focuses on the strategic “fracturing” of the projected images and their smooth transition into space. The curatorial concept moves beyond the traditional frame and transforms video into the exhibition architecture, formulating new “planes of refraction” and perspectives. 

The series includes works made by students based on their own original concepts, and presents night as its main theme. It was the phenomenon of night and its socio-cultural implications that inspired these videos which show not only a taste for formal experimentation with the medium of the image but also reflect the theme of night in all its ambivalent meanings. 

“Long held under suspicion as the domain of outcasts and phantoms, the night has come under pressure to extend the horizon of work and production. 

What faith, the state, and capital fear are the perils and promises of the dark’s formlessness: to withdraw into the pure solitude of sleep and dreams’ unreason; to blush with the pure elation of dance and a rave’s ephemeral friendships; even to have one’s edges undone by the murmurs of ghosts or a celestial sign.

Need a break from the tyranny of the sun? Then light a candle, a headlamp, a flare – anything but your phone – and grab your copy to follow us into the possibility of the night.” (Spike, no. 78) 

The exhibition develops the day situation as an inversion of the night: the first part invites visitors to contemplate the ambient background of the day cycle while the last part is positioned as a simulated kino situation. The space between provides a threshold, a murky boundary, a hybrid situation. As the audience, we enter into dialog between the representative plane and an immersive, spatial experience – diving into it, dreaming, waking.

Photos: Eliška Klimešová, Ondřej Konrád, Jan Tušl

Kolektiv Plusko+, a Brno-Prague-based queer group, was born out of an urgent need for a safe place to meet regularly for all trans*, intersex, asexual, queer and bisexual people, gay and lesbian people, as well as for all those who are the “plus”, for all those who are finding themselves, and for true allies. Plusko+ strives to actively expand and strengthen the Czech queer community scene through weekly educational and caring activities organized according to D.I.Y. and free culture principles.

Accessibility information:

• The space is wheelchair-accessible, but it may be necessary to unlock the second entrance – just ask someone present or contact us once we are at the space.

• If not indicated otherwise, the program is usually accessible for both Czech and English speakers.

• Entrance is free, but you can support Plusko+ collective’s activities with a voluntary donation.

• There are gender-neutral toilets available, drinking water, ear plugs and respirators, and vegan food which will be prepared at certain phases of the program. If you feel at all sick, please use a respirator.

• We provide quiet relaxation zones with comfortable lighting conditions for everyone. All proposals aiming to create a more comfortable space for all people present are welcome and we will do our best to make them happen.

• Providing a safe space for everyone is Pluskolektiv+’s priority – we will not tolerate any form of queerphobia, xenophobia, racism or other forms of hatefulness. The organizers reserve the right to expel from the premises anyone who disrupts the safe space.

• The organizers will be visibly marked. In case of any questions, please approach us personally at the space or online on our Instagram @pluskolektiv.

PROGRAM

Thursday–Sunday, 6–16 March 2025, 13.00–19.00 / GAMU, Malostranské náměstí 12, Praha 1

Swap circle: more than just second-hand clothes

A space for the circulation of textiles, accessories or whatever you don’t need anymore and which may bring joy to someone else. The opportunity to leave behind something you don’t need and pick up something you want. Trading is not mandatory.

Queer library

A space for communal reading, browsing and discovering queer literature, poetry, and zines. The selection includes both theoretical and artistic publications. Facilities for copying and printing select excerpts will be available. The space also invites people to bring their own original books and share them.

Compiling collective queer archives

An interactive form of collective writing in thematic diaries. The option to leave your thoughts, feelings, and messages for other visitors.

Queer listening room

An open space for listening to both your original and others’ music, watching videos or playing video games. This open space provides the technologies for sharing diverse multimedia content.

OPENING NIGHT: QUEER SOUND, VOICE AND MUSIC

Thursday, 6 March 2025, 18.00–21.00 

18.00 – Opening remarks

18.30 – Open mic and synth voice play

An open stage for anyone who wants to present their original works, sing, recite, read a part of their favorite book… There will be a synth which will transform everyone’s voice!

20.00 – DJ set: poison ivy

CREATIVE Z!NE AND STICKER UTOPIA

Friday, 7 March, 13.00–19.00 

14.00–17.30

Linocut, Collage, Binding, DIY Stickers

As part of the Plusko+ workshop we will cut, print, glue, compose, and combine various methods of putting our thoughts to paper. All steps will be explained during the event, from the initial printing to the final binding, so no previous experience is necessary. We will create zines, diaries and stickers. Materials will be available, but if you have your own images, texts or something you would like to include in your work, definitely bring it along. You can work alone or collectively, improvise and play.

18.00 – Live online lecture – An International History of Queeruption: a free DIY radical queer gathering 1998–2010 (ENG)

From squats and their community centers to autonomous workshops – Queeruption created temporary spaces of resistance, community and celebration. Cyber Shanahoy will provide an overview of the radical history of DIY culture from the perspective of an international anarchist festival which thrived in the first decade of the 21st century.

Cyber Shanahoy is a genderqueer femme dyke, independent filmmaker and subculture nerd currently living in New York.

TO TRANSFORM IS TO SURVIVE

Saturday, 8 March, 13.00–19.00 

14.00 – The big upcycling workshop (This outfit was a mistake and that’s what makes it perfect!)

Do you have some clothes at home you no longer wear? You can breathe new life into them in our upcycling workshop. Paint it, retailor it, spray it, cut it up and make it into patches, tear it up and use it as yarn for a new sweater, color it with beet juice and use it at home as a tablecloth. Materials will be available in the space, but you are also invited to bring your own clothes and retailor them.

17.00 – Miss GAMU 2025

The first and last year of an untraditional beauty pageant – the best chance to be iconic, dramatic, or totally confused. Ideally all at once! No particular gender, age or experience required, it’s all about presence, wit and the ability to step out of your comfort zone. The categories are open, the rules fluid, but one thing is certain – the winners will make hertory and will forever have a special place in all our hearts. We invite the competitors, the audience and the jury to take part.

GAMU OVER

Sunday, 9 March, 13.00–19.00 

13.00–19.00

Playing video games, board games and card games

Playing games isn’t just about having fun – it is a way to try out new roles, create new worlds and shake up the rules. We nominate Sunday afternoon as the best time for sharing a game! Various games will be made available, but don’t hesitate to bring your own favorite one.

17.00 – Pub quiz (CZ)

Whether you are a walking library of obscure knowledge or want to try your luck, come to the Plusko+ pub quiz in the gallery. Our strict but fair moderator once said, “It’s not about winning, but taking part” – and she is always right. We invite both groups and individuals to this intellectual showdown.

18.00 – Screening of the Czech Television Show – Queer: Men in High Heels I., II. (CZ)

Czech drag in the ‘90s? A time when queer entertainment in the Czech Republic emerged from underground clubs into the spotlight. A sudden euphoria, the thrill of visibility, shock and fascination from the mainstream – followed by the inevitable disillusionment. What remained after the explosion of freedom?

The groundbreaking show Q (Queer) was unique not only for bringing queer topics to public television but also for documenting the evolution of the Czech queer scene over time. The two selected episodes dive into the world of Czech travesty and drag performance – from intimate private parties to grand stages, from improvised acts to meticulously crafted artistry.

Come watch archival footage that captures a moment when everything seemed possible – yet everything was constantly on the edge. A story of queer visibility in the Czech Republic, where glamour meets reality, applause comes with uncertainty, and sequins mix with sweat that was never quite enough for full recognition.

QUEER SCHOOL

Tuesday, 11 March, 10.00–13.00 

An open encounter with the New Media 2 studio (AVU)

What is it like studying a program where working by error is not a mistake but rather the method? Transformations in the education system are not just a question of planning for the long term – they can’t ever stop. What is it like studying art in a studio working to queer academia from the inside? What if art weren’t taught by evil, self-obsessed and sexist studio heads, but rather by the three Norns? The New Media 2 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague comes together as a community which often asks one question – how to create something which doesn’t exist yet?

The meeting is open to all who wish to sneak a peek, join in, pose a question or just stay a while.

HER QUEER STORIES

Thursday, 13 March, 13.00–21.00 

14.00 – Workshop: How to write a speech for a demonstration

“Your silence will not protect you.” (Audre Lorde)

How to write so that the words don’t dry on the page, but touch the bodies and the street, and spur people to action? How to write in a language which does not parrot the language of power structures, but rather disrupts them? This workshop is an invitation to find one’s voice which needn’t be loud to be heard – a voice that works with rhythm, silence, and emphasis. A writing which isn’t just words but also gestures, emotions, memories, and intention.

16.00 – Book club

What book should get more recognition? The book club provides opportunity to share your favorite texts, read an excerpt, show an illustration or just listen and discover new authors, theories and stories.

19.00 – Intersectional Circle

The Intersectional Circle is a collective platform which connects queer and feminist thinking with social praxis. It develops from the tradition of reading circles where theoretical texts are not considered closed system but rather as food for discussion and critical reflection. Through shared reading and analysis, we ask how theories relate to real experiences, how they form our world view and how they can be developed into tools of change. This time, the Intersectional Circle will discuss the text Community Care and Relationship-Building, available online on the Cosmic Anarchy Substack, and feature a shared discussion. Dr. Ayesha Khan, scientist, activist, and author, explores community care in a clear and accessible way, presenting it as a key tool for building sustainable relationships and breaking free from the individualistic, capitalist mindset that shapes society.

Familiarity with the text is not mandatory but recommended.

SLEEPOVER: WARM AND TIRED

Friday, 14 March, 13.00 – overnight! 

14.00–17.00

Crocheting stim toys

Come crochet something soft, squishy and soothing! Together, we will create stim toys which will please the hands and soul. All levels of experience are welcomed.

17.00 – Tea and gossip (about the cistem)

Living in the cistem means constantly being confronted with a hostile, often unbearable, reality. The exhaustion of living in constant defense mode is not a side effect, but a targeted mechanism of oppression.

Come relax to a place where you can share your thoughts and even mix your own custom-made tea infusion to give you warmth and strength.

18.00 – Evening yoga session

We invite you to a peaceful yoga session with Innes and Jula where you can stretch your body and relax your mind. Come relax, get in tune with yourself and get energized!

Yoga mats are a plus.

19.00 – Cooking and shared dinner

21.00 – Premiere of the film Ranní ptáče dál nedoskáče (The Morning Bird Does Not Get the Worm)

Two people who have been close in the past but have drifted apart meet again in waking life and in dreams. The performance society has driven them apart and one of them has fallen prey to the late-capitalist world. The other person embodies the metaphor of a dream and wants them to become close again. A manifesto about sleep and the existential sense of the pervasive and often absurd “time hunting” which robs us of our relaxation time.

22.00 – Ambient set: M.K.

The ambient tracks from M.K.’s original album Usínání v ambientu (Ambient Sleep) are like sound essays unbounded by any firm limits of reality. They combine field recording, synthesizers and sound destruction.

22.00 – Sleepover

Shared sleepover at the gallery on World Sleep Day. All you need is a sleeping bag, a sleeping mat and some comfortable clothes.

YASSIFICATION OF GAMU

Saturday, 15 March, 9.30–19.00 

9.30 – Morning meditation with Chapell Moan

Like Chapell Roan, only penniless and ‘ezo.’ She just wants everyone to feel HOT TO GO! The amazing and luscious diva Chapell Moan will walk us through the morning ritual which will cuddle and coddle our body and soul. Getting up on time has never been this sexy.

10.30 – How to make breakfast

Also under the guidance of Chapell Moan, who will be particularly generous this time. Bread and marmeslayed or perhaps some vegan eggs-travagance? She will definitely serve the best on the menu.

12.00 – Drag, make-up and fashion corner

Time to glam! We will glam up, make-up, dress up, make costumes and transform into our most decorative selves.

14.00 –

Sunbathing at Petřín

See and be seen. Spring is coming and we are taking it to the streets again. As the most beautiful flowers, we grow through the soil and need some of that sweet vitamin D. Join us for a very short walk and sunbathing at Petřín with the best-dressed group ever.

16.00–19.00

Queer prom! Karaoke and day rave

Dress code: evening gowns and fancy footwear. This ball is for dancing and singing, and you can still come home early and sleep! Fun will be served by DJs California Bitch and Angelo+Eizola. A day rave for all those who want to turn in nice and early.

PLUSKO+ CENTER: IT’S HAPPENING!

Sunday, 16 March, 13.00–19.00 

14.00 – Sharing skills and knowledge

DIY: do it yourself! The event offers an open space for the non-hierarchical sharing of knowledge, offering a workshop, a lecture, and discussion on any chosen topic. Expect to see skills both special and completely mundane, academic insight, art experiments, and methods for resisting the pressure of the system. Take part in the organization, join the discussion or just let yourself be inspired by what happens. If you have any questions on the topic, don’t hesitate to contact us on our social networks.

Thanks!

Galerie AMU for the space, production, and financial support.

Vít Bohal for the translation.

Žofia Fodorová a Šimon Vlasák for the graphic design of the event.

Ondřej Konrád for technical support.

Photos: Eliška Klimešová

Galerie Světova 1 for lending us titles for the queer library.

All the performers, artists and communities, and all those supporting the activities of Plusko collective.

NO ONE IS FREE, UNLESS WE ARE ALL FREE

Pluskolektiv+

www.pluskolektiv.cz

@pluskolektiv

“As artists, we live on the periphery. But we are the mirrors. We are the reflective points that break through a barrier.” -Cannupa Hanska Luger

With the rise of global information infrastructure we have become direct witnesses to the growing number of humanitarian and (un)natural disasters, wars, armed conflict and displacement. Most of these geopolitical crises are perceived to occur on the periphery relative to the Euro-Western world. This exhibition explores various artistic practices as a language that transcends borders, bringing the periphery closer to the center. Louder holds space for different artistic approaches as responses, reactions and resistance to these crises, creating a space of amplification. 

“The role of the artist in the social structure follows the need of the changing times:
In time of social stasis: to activate
In time of germination: to invent fertile new forms
In time of revolution: to extend the possibilities of peace and liberty
In time of violence: to make peace
In time of despair: to give hope
In time of silence: to sing out ”      – Judith Malina

⚡️Graphic design: Žofia Fodorová
⚡️Technical support: Jonáš Balcar, David Škourek, Jakub Hons, Václav Mach
⚡️PR: Lála Mysl
⚡️Open: thu-sun 1-7pm
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