PechaKucha Night Prague Vol. 52
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Tisková zpráva
14.02.2017 20:35
Tisková zpráva
14.02.2017 20:35
The only woman who has ever been allowed to photograph from a motorcycle saddle in the history of the Tour de France, a living legend of the "cartoon humor" genre, and the designer of the airship that landed at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Holešovice, at another Prague PechaKucha evening.
The first PechaKucha Night Prague of this year is the fifty-second in order and opens the eleventh year in which it is held at regular intervals in Prague: on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, newly starting at 7:20 PM at the Aero cinema in Žižkov. 12 speakers will present in a special format of 20 images x 20 seconds about their work.
In addition to photographer Markéta Navrátilová, artist Jiří Slíva, and architect Martin Rajniš, there will be a link between the world of fashion design and illustration, sisters Daria and Maria Makeeva, architect, artist, and inventor of the self-moving house Jan Fabián, author of the newly published book of statuses and tweets "I Feel Like Ulrike Meinhof" and half of the group Čokovoko Zuzana Fuksová, sound experimenters and authors of the excellent adaptation of Lem's "Solaris" Jonáš Rosůlek and Adam Boháč from Needles studio, manic zin creator, photographer Václav Tvarůžka, grandchildren of architects Machonin, Marie and Jan Kordovský from the initiative Respekt Madam, professional collector of printed documents and archivist Jiří Hůla, founder of the Archive of Fine Arts, illustrator and author of several authorial books Jindřich Janíček, and the founders of the gallery VI PER, a space for debates on architecture, Barbora Špičáková and Irena Lehkoživová.
Interesting and inspiring projects and guests are selected by seven dramaturgs: Adam Gebrian - architect and promoter of architecture, Petr Babák - graphic designer and head of the graphic design and new media studio at UMPRUM, Tomáš Luňák - director, Cyril Říha - philosopher, Jan H. Vitvar - journalist, Alan Záruba - graphic designer, Jana Kostelecká - art historian and organizer of PKNP.
Their selection is purely subjective and aimed at a wide range of creative fields and generations.
PechaKucha Nights have been held regularly in Prague since 2007, and in the archive on the project’s website, you can find audiovisual recordings of all past presentations. To date, you can search and play any of the 641 presentations. The archive of Prague's PechaKucha is thus slowly but surely becoming a repository of contemporary events in many creative fields.
The PechaKucha project was conceived by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham from the Klein Dytham architects studio operating in Tokyo, Japan. The popularity of PK is growing incredibly fast: today it is held in more than 940 cities worldwide. Each city has its local organizer and holds PK based on a granted license. The rules are clear: it must be held regularly, speakers may not be paid for their presentations, and the format of 20 images x 20 seconds must be adhered to. www.pechakucha.org
Admission:
Standard: 220 CZK
Discounted (students and seniors): 170 CZK
Tickets can be purchased online and at the box offices of Aero, Světozor, and BIO OKO cinemas, and newly also at goout website.
About the individual speakers:
Jan Fabián
An artist, architect, and builder who thinks about space and materials in space, both in an abstract sense and for life within it. For PKNP, his topic will be "life and realization." A self-moving house in the landscape. Kayaking from the roof of a car into the Vltava. Jars in the UMPRUM museum. A television sculpture. Dresses as houses. Exhibition architecture. A workshop on wheels. A glass library. A gallery. Furnishings. Lecture centers. Community gardens. Concrete. Epoxy. Wood. Old elements. In context. Studied in Marián Karl's studio, Glass in Architecture, at UMPRUM.
Barbora Špičáková and Irena Lehkoživová (Gallery VI PER)
In spring 2016, they founded the VI PER gallery together in Prague's Karlín. VI PER serves as an exhibition and discussion space focused on architecture and its overlaps. It aims to highlight the significant potential of architecture and art in society. B. Š. is an art historian, editor of the book "Sídliště Solidarita" (2014). She works at the Archive of Fine Arts. I. L. is an architectural historian, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History, Charles University. She works at the Archive of Fine Arts and at the Department of Theory and History of Architecture, CTU.
Jiří Slíva
Originally from Plzeň, where he drummed in a rock band called The Spiders in high school. He then went to the University of Economics in Prague (due to Semafor and jazz clubs). After graduation, he worked for eight years as a research officer at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1979, he became a freelance cartoonist, later also a graphic artist and illustrator. He has illustrated around 170 books both domestically and abroad, alongside several solo exhibitions. He also writes poetry and composes songs, having released 2 CDs under the Galén publishing house.
Jindřich Janíček
An illustrator, graduate of Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín and the Illustration Studio at UMPRUM. He is the author of the books "We Come in Peace in the Name of Humanity," "In the Evening the Rain Started," and "The Wonderful Robot Expedition." While working, he prefers to listen to The White Stripes.
Jiří Hůla
A modern poet, artist, publicist, and in recent years predominantly an archivist. His artistic work occupies common ground between poetry, information theory, and visual art. As a curator, he has prepared dozens of exhibitions and as a publicist has published hundreds of articles, reviews, interviews, and radio programs. In 1983, he opened Gallery H with Zdeněk Hůla in a family house in Kostelec nad Černými lesy, where several dozen confrontational exhibitions took place until 1988. In 1983, he founded the Archive of Fine Arts, now perhaps the largest collection of documents on contemporary – primarily Czech and Slovak – visual art. The same-named association has been organizing exhibitions, publishing books, developing, maintaining, and freely providing access to their own information system abART at the address isabart.org since 2003, which is non-selective and universally open. Currently, it contains records for 135,000 individuals, processed 60,000 exhibitions, and 150,000 documents.
Zuzana Fuksová
A member of the group Čokovoko. An unfinished studies Germanist, with an education in social work. She is currently completing psychotherapy training. The author of the book composed of statuses and tweets "I Feel Like Ulrike Meinhof" (Fra, 2016).
Marie and Jan Kordovští (Respekt Madam)
The initiative was founded in 2015 by the grandchildren of architects Machonin, Marie and Jan Kordovští, in reaction to the Minister of Finance's proposal to sell the pool part of the Thermal hotel. Their activities had a positive effect on the entire situation, and the Minister of Finance withdrew his original proposal and instead supported the reconstruction of the entire hotel. Currently, Respekt Madam consists of a four-member team, whose main domain is to inform the public about the past and present state of the architecture of the Machonin spouses, as well as post-war architecture in general. The current goal of this project is to turn the Thermal hotel into a monument, which they achieve, among other things, by reminding of the history of architecture in the context of our country's history. The most important event that Respekt Madam organizes is the accompanying program about the Thermal hotel during the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Martin Rajniš (Huť architektury)
Martin Rajniš has made a mark in the world of architecture with significant projects that combine the ideas of long-term sustainability, ecology, and the concept of architecture as a tool for community-society development. He graduated from CTU and AVU and worked in SIAL in the 1970s, headed by Karel Hubáček. Together with J. Eisler and M. Masák, they are the authors of the project for the Prague department store Máj on Národní street. He co-authored the pavilion of the history of transport at Expo 1986 in Vancouver. After the revolution, he led DA Studio with S. Fiala, J. Zima, and T. Prouza, whose largest project was the construction of a new center in Smíchov. In the last two decades, Martin Rajniš's work has significantly transformed. He focuses on smaller buildings made from natural materials (wood, stone, glass) and his work is based on the philosophy of so-called natural architecture. He is the founder and head of the studio Huť architektury Martin Rajniš. In 2014, he received the prestigious "Global Prize for Sustainable Architecture" for his exceptional contribution to world architecture.
Jonáš Rosůlek and Adam Boháč (Needles)
The Needles studio has enriched reality with its vibrations since 2011. Their needles pierce the public sound space from advertisements on the radio through musical accompaniment to independent films to the sound design of site-specific projects. They enjoy experimenting with the oldest technologies, such as the Polish microphone Tonsil MDU-24, which they managed to acquire for 2 crowns. Noise is their friend. After the success of the first audiobook Solaris in 2015, they founded the Needles Audiobooks division, which, as the name suggests, does not deal with the sale of wrist pendants.
Markéta Navrátilová
She established herself on a global level with her photographs from the sports environment, especially cycling. As the only woman, she photographs the Tour de France from the saddle of a motorcycle, she photographed the London Olympic Games for the Czech Olympic Committee, with which she continues to cooperate. She has created collections about the London Underground and photographic diaries from travels around the world. Since 2001, she has organized more than 15 solo exhibitions. In 2008, she published the book RE CYCLING – a monograph from the world of professional road cycling. In 2009, she published another book on cycling, this time from the "Kolo pro život" races. Her latest published book (in collaboration with Josef Dressler) was in 2013 titled ŠKOLA KOLA. Besides sports, she engages in portraiture, advertising photography, or reportage. And to her seven-year-old son Tim.
Václav Tvarůžka
He is a photographer. What interests him probably falls under the label "street photography," although he thinks it is a dumb term. Recently, he has been mainly engaged in DIY zine production, and for this purpose, he established something like a label called Putzfrau Enteprise. Currently, he wants to push this somewhere forward, so he is making a book (actually three).
Daria Makeeva and Maria Makeeva
A sister duo and creative tandem based in Prague. As a fashion designer (Daria) and an illustrator (Maria), they work in different media and seek new common ground in their fields. Since spring 2016, they have been presenting jointly processed projects.
www.pechakucha.cz
The first PechaKucha Night Prague of this year is the fifty-second in order and opens the eleventh year in which it is held at regular intervals in Prague: on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, newly starting at 7:20 PM at the Aero cinema in Žižkov. 12 speakers will present in a special format of 20 images x 20 seconds about their work.
In addition to photographer Markéta Navrátilová, artist Jiří Slíva, and architect Martin Rajniš, there will be a link between the world of fashion design and illustration, sisters Daria and Maria Makeeva, architect, artist, and inventor of the self-moving house Jan Fabián, author of the newly published book of statuses and tweets "I Feel Like Ulrike Meinhof" and half of the group Čokovoko Zuzana Fuksová, sound experimenters and authors of the excellent adaptation of Lem's "Solaris" Jonáš Rosůlek and Adam Boháč from Needles studio, manic zin creator, photographer Václav Tvarůžka, grandchildren of architects Machonin, Marie and Jan Kordovský from the initiative Respekt Madam, professional collector of printed documents and archivist Jiří Hůla, founder of the Archive of Fine Arts, illustrator and author of several authorial books Jindřich Janíček, and the founders of the gallery VI PER, a space for debates on architecture, Barbora Špičáková and Irena Lehkoživová.
Interesting and inspiring projects and guests are selected by seven dramaturgs: Adam Gebrian - architect and promoter of architecture, Petr Babák - graphic designer and head of the graphic design and new media studio at UMPRUM, Tomáš Luňák - director, Cyril Říha - philosopher, Jan H. Vitvar - journalist, Alan Záruba - graphic designer, Jana Kostelecká - art historian and organizer of PKNP.
Their selection is purely subjective and aimed at a wide range of creative fields and generations.
PechaKucha Nights have been held regularly in Prague since 2007, and in the archive on the project’s website, you can find audiovisual recordings of all past presentations. To date, you can search and play any of the 641 presentations. The archive of Prague's PechaKucha is thus slowly but surely becoming a repository of contemporary events in many creative fields.
The PechaKucha project was conceived by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham from the Klein Dytham architects studio operating in Tokyo, Japan. The popularity of PK is growing incredibly fast: today it is held in more than 940 cities worldwide. Each city has its local organizer and holds PK based on a granted license. The rules are clear: it must be held regularly, speakers may not be paid for their presentations, and the format of 20 images x 20 seconds must be adhered to. www.pechakucha.org
Admission:
Standard: 220 CZK
Discounted (students and seniors): 170 CZK
Tickets can be purchased online and at the box offices of Aero, Světozor, and BIO OKO cinemas, and newly also at goout website.
About the individual speakers:
Jan Fabián
An artist, architect, and builder who thinks about space and materials in space, both in an abstract sense and for life within it. For PKNP, his topic will be "life and realization." A self-moving house in the landscape. Kayaking from the roof of a car into the Vltava. Jars in the UMPRUM museum. A television sculpture. Dresses as houses. Exhibition architecture. A workshop on wheels. A glass library. A gallery. Furnishings. Lecture centers. Community gardens. Concrete. Epoxy. Wood. Old elements. In context. Studied in Marián Karl's studio, Glass in Architecture, at UMPRUM.
Barbora Špičáková and Irena Lehkoživová (Gallery VI PER)
In spring 2016, they founded the VI PER gallery together in Prague's Karlín. VI PER serves as an exhibition and discussion space focused on architecture and its overlaps. It aims to highlight the significant potential of architecture and art in society. B. Š. is an art historian, editor of the book "Sídliště Solidarita" (2014). She works at the Archive of Fine Arts. I. L. is an architectural historian, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History, Charles University. She works at the Archive of Fine Arts and at the Department of Theory and History of Architecture, CTU.
Jiří Slíva
Originally from Plzeň, where he drummed in a rock band called The Spiders in high school. He then went to the University of Economics in Prague (due to Semafor and jazz clubs). After graduation, he worked for eight years as a research officer at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1979, he became a freelance cartoonist, later also a graphic artist and illustrator. He has illustrated around 170 books both domestically and abroad, alongside several solo exhibitions. He also writes poetry and composes songs, having released 2 CDs under the Galén publishing house.
Jindřich Janíček
An illustrator, graduate of Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín and the Illustration Studio at UMPRUM. He is the author of the books "We Come in Peace in the Name of Humanity," "In the Evening the Rain Started," and "The Wonderful Robot Expedition." While working, he prefers to listen to The White Stripes.
Jiří Hůla
A modern poet, artist, publicist, and in recent years predominantly an archivist. His artistic work occupies common ground between poetry, information theory, and visual art. As a curator, he has prepared dozens of exhibitions and as a publicist has published hundreds of articles, reviews, interviews, and radio programs. In 1983, he opened Gallery H with Zdeněk Hůla in a family house in Kostelec nad Černými lesy, where several dozen confrontational exhibitions took place until 1988. In 1983, he founded the Archive of Fine Arts, now perhaps the largest collection of documents on contemporary – primarily Czech and Slovak – visual art. The same-named association has been organizing exhibitions, publishing books, developing, maintaining, and freely providing access to their own information system abART at the address isabart.org since 2003, which is non-selective and universally open. Currently, it contains records for 135,000 individuals, processed 60,000 exhibitions, and 150,000 documents.
Zuzana Fuksová
A member of the group Čokovoko. An unfinished studies Germanist, with an education in social work. She is currently completing psychotherapy training. The author of the book composed of statuses and tweets "I Feel Like Ulrike Meinhof" (Fra, 2016).
Marie and Jan Kordovští (Respekt Madam)
The initiative was founded in 2015 by the grandchildren of architects Machonin, Marie and Jan Kordovští, in reaction to the Minister of Finance's proposal to sell the pool part of the Thermal hotel. Their activities had a positive effect on the entire situation, and the Minister of Finance withdrew his original proposal and instead supported the reconstruction of the entire hotel. Currently, Respekt Madam consists of a four-member team, whose main domain is to inform the public about the past and present state of the architecture of the Machonin spouses, as well as post-war architecture in general. The current goal of this project is to turn the Thermal hotel into a monument, which they achieve, among other things, by reminding of the history of architecture in the context of our country's history. The most important event that Respekt Madam organizes is the accompanying program about the Thermal hotel during the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Martin Rajniš (Huť architektury)
Martin Rajniš has made a mark in the world of architecture with significant projects that combine the ideas of long-term sustainability, ecology, and the concept of architecture as a tool for community-society development. He graduated from CTU and AVU and worked in SIAL in the 1970s, headed by Karel Hubáček. Together with J. Eisler and M. Masák, they are the authors of the project for the Prague department store Máj on Národní street. He co-authored the pavilion of the history of transport at Expo 1986 in Vancouver. After the revolution, he led DA Studio with S. Fiala, J. Zima, and T. Prouza, whose largest project was the construction of a new center in Smíchov. In the last two decades, Martin Rajniš's work has significantly transformed. He focuses on smaller buildings made from natural materials (wood, stone, glass) and his work is based on the philosophy of so-called natural architecture. He is the founder and head of the studio Huť architektury Martin Rajniš. In 2014, he received the prestigious "Global Prize for Sustainable Architecture" for his exceptional contribution to world architecture.
Jonáš Rosůlek and Adam Boháč (Needles)
The Needles studio has enriched reality with its vibrations since 2011. Their needles pierce the public sound space from advertisements on the radio through musical accompaniment to independent films to the sound design of site-specific projects. They enjoy experimenting with the oldest technologies, such as the Polish microphone Tonsil MDU-24, which they managed to acquire for 2 crowns. Noise is their friend. After the success of the first audiobook Solaris in 2015, they founded the Needles Audiobooks division, which, as the name suggests, does not deal with the sale of wrist pendants.
Markéta Navrátilová
She established herself on a global level with her photographs from the sports environment, especially cycling. As the only woman, she photographs the Tour de France from the saddle of a motorcycle, she photographed the London Olympic Games for the Czech Olympic Committee, with which she continues to cooperate. She has created collections about the London Underground and photographic diaries from travels around the world. Since 2001, she has organized more than 15 solo exhibitions. In 2008, she published the book RE CYCLING – a monograph from the world of professional road cycling. In 2009, she published another book on cycling, this time from the "Kolo pro život" races. Her latest published book (in collaboration with Josef Dressler) was in 2013 titled ŠKOLA KOLA. Besides sports, she engages in portraiture, advertising photography, or reportage. And to her seven-year-old son Tim.
Václav Tvarůžka
He is a photographer. What interests him probably falls under the label "street photography," although he thinks it is a dumb term. Recently, he has been mainly engaged in DIY zine production, and for this purpose, he established something like a label called Putzfrau Enteprise. Currently, he wants to push this somewhere forward, so he is making a book (actually three).
Daria Makeeva and Maria Makeeva
A sister duo and creative tandem based in Prague. As a fashion designer (Daria) and an illustrator (Maria), they work in different media and seek new common ground in their fields. Since spring 2016, they have been presenting jointly processed projects.
www.pechakucha.cz
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