PechaKucha Night Prague Vol. 29

PechaKucha Nights are live presentations by architects, graphic designers, designers, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, theater people, promoters, and theorists in a special format of 20 images x 20 seconds, invented and brought to life in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture). They have been held in Prague since 2007 as the twentieth city in the world. Today, they take place in 527 cities worldwide. The twenty-ninth PechaKucha Night Prague will take place on May 25, 2012, at 8:20 PM at Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Prague 3. Tickets can be purchased online and at the box offices of Aero, Světozor, and Oko cinemas.

Performers:
Lucie Trnková and Lucie Kutálková (Leeda)
René Dlesk and Roy Nash (P-U-R-A)
Albert Pražák (LABOR13)
KIX
Jan Čapek
Tomáš Kučerovský
Hana Frišonsová
Andrej Šumbera
Rudo Prekop
Kamil Fila
Kamila Polívková
Michal Nesázal
Kateřina Tučková
Ivan Vosecký

The main partner of PechaKucha Night Prague for 2012 is Autodesk!
The project is consistently supported by: BOOM TISK Printing
Media partners of the project in 2012: Era 21, RADIO 1 91.9 FM, Cultural Hit
Dramaturgy: Jana Kostelecká, Adam Gebrian, Jan H. Vitvar, Cyril Říha, Alan Záruba
PechaKucha Night – devised and shared by Klein Dytham

About the performers:

Lucie Trnková and Lucie Kutálková (Leeda)
Leeda was created in 2004, thanks to a shared experience from studying clothing design at the Prague VŠUP, and today is a cult fashion brand for many, specializing in the design and production of limited fashion collections. In individual projects, various professions from contemporary design and art come together under the Leeda label: the designers have collaborated, among others, with the prominent Czech architect Jan Kaplický, who designed a collection of dresses and women's swimsuits for their brand. In addition to their author collections, Leeda specializes in individual, professional, and advertising clients as well as theater and film costumes.
www.leeda.cz

René Dlesk and Roy Nash (P-U-R-A)
Platform for Urban Research and Architecture (P-U-R-A) is a young international studio bringing together architects working in various parts of Europe under a common name. Their different cultural and social backgrounds, influences, approaches, and perspectives on architecture are reflected in both their collective and individual work in studios based in London, Milan, and Prague. Roy Nash (IT) and René Dlesk (SVK), who founded P-U-R-A in early 2010, met in Rotterdam in 2004 during a foreign student internship.
www.p-u-r-a.com

Albert Pražák (LABOR13)
LABOR13 is a studio founded in 2007 by architects Albert Pražák, Martin Vomastek, and civil engineer Jiří Bardoděj. Its scope of activities includes projects for civic and residential buildings, interior design, exhibition installations, and urbanism of smaller units. In addition to new constructions, the studio also has experience in designing renovations and alterations of historical and monument-protected buildings. In their designs, they strive to understand and process the client's brief, capture the building's context, and its significance in the area. Recent projects include the Miura hotel in Čeladná and a family house in Kamenný Přívoz.
www.labor13.cz

KIX
KIX is a comic newspaper. It is recognizable by the fact that it is printed on newsprint and has an impractical format. It is published by David Böhm, Jiří Franta, Kakalík, Jaromír Plachý, and Vladimír 518 from their own resources.
www.kixkix.cz

Jan Čapek
Designer. He devotes himself to his field in its entirety. He holds awards at home and abroad. He is known for his bottle designs for Karlovarské minerální vody and pint glasses for major Czech breweries, as well as his original creations like rocking bull terriers or cheeky porcelain vases Pinup. He approaches each of his projects in a new way. He builds on high aesthetics and surprising technical solutions, as well as conceptual transcendence or expanding the possibilities of using a given object.
www.jancapek.net

Tomáš Kučerovský
Comic author, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology, works as a freelance illustrator. In addition to comics, he deals with illustration, book cover design, graphical editing of publications, CD covers, designs for computer games, illustrations for board games, theater posters, advertising illustrations, and storyboards. In 2000, together with Tomáš Prokůpek, he founded the comic magazine Aargh!, this year the eleventh issue was published. He participated in an international comic workshop in Singapore organized by the ASEF foundation in 2006. His work was presented in over 30 exhibitions both at home and abroad. This year, his monograph ZOOOM was published.
www.tomaskucerovsky.tk

Hana Frišonsová
Graduate of textile and clothing design at the Technical University in Liberec. After her studies, she founded the clothing brand SUUS, focused on small-series women's clothing. She now continues under her own name. Her biggest successes so far include receiving the Erste Bank Fashion Award at the Austria Fashion Awards 2011 in Vienna and this year's presentation at Shooting Fashion Stars 2012.
www.hanafrisonsova.com

Andrej Šumbera
Sculptor, restorer, and photographer. He worked on the restoration of Czech coronation jewels, Myslbek's statue of St. Wenceslas, the reliquary of St. Maurus, and others. He is the author of the project Prague - Unique Mosaic of Art.
www.kralovskacesta.cz, www.svatymaur.cz, www.korunovacni-klenoty.cz

Rudo Prekop
Photographer Rudo Prekop will guide us through 22 years during which the book *Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia* was created, which he worked on together with visual artist Michal Cihlář. Due to his perseverance and many collaborators, they gathered over 1,200 photographs and documents, many published here for the first time. The graphic layout of the book was handled by Robert V. Novák.
www.arborvitae.eu

Kamil Fila
Film publicist. He studied theory and history of film and audiovisual culture at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. He usually behaves entirely in contrast to how people around him are behaving at the moment. Essentially, he is non-confrontational and honest even to the face and is not ashamed of his various weaknesses. Currently, among other tasks, he is an editor at the weekly *Respekt*.
respekt.ihned.cz

Kamila Polívková
Graduate of scenography at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. She is the author of costume and set design for more than 60 productions in theaters like Husa na provázku (Brno), National Theater (Prague), City Theatre Zlín, Petr Bezruč Theatre (Ostrava), Ha-divadlo (Brno), Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem, Švandovo Theater (Prague). Since 2004, she has been working at the Prague Chamber Theatre as a costume designer and scenographer. Since 2007, she has also been developing graphic design and photography for Comedy Theatre. At the beginning of the 2009/2010 theater season, she made her directorial debut at Comedy Theatre: her own adaptation of Thomas Brussig's novel *Heroes Like Us*. Currently, her production of Ödön von Horváth's play *Faith, Love, Hope* is in the repertoire.
www.prakomdiv.cz

Michal Nesázal
He studied at the Prague AVU in Jiří Sopko's studio. He is one of the first recipients of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (1992). In his work, he moves along the axis of painting - object - drawing, with drawing currently prevailing. Regarding his current work, he says: “I do not want to burden the viewer with incomprehensible and complex contexts and concepts, but I want to allow a simple drawing to resonate, which is capable of conveying direct emotions.”
www.michalnesazal.com

Kateřina Tučková
Art historian, independent curator, and writer. She studied Czech Studies and Art History at Masaryk University in Brno, and she is currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Art History at Charles University. As part of the ARSkontakt project, she organized numerous exhibition projects in the Czech Republic and abroad, specializing mainly in contemporary painting. From 2004 to 2010, she organized a confrontational exhibition associated with the award for young artists ARSkontakt. She is the author of short stories, the novel *Montespaniáda* (Větrné mlýny, 2006), the novel *The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch* (Host, 2009), for which she received the Readers' Award for Magnesia Litera in 2010, and *The Goddesses of Žítková* (Host, 2012). She lives in Brno and Prague.
www.katerina-tuckova.cz

Ivan Vosecký
He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague and later AVU (gradually in the studios of Milan Knížák, Michal Bielický, Miloš Šejn, Jiří David, Vladimír Skrepl, and Jiří Kovanda). He is a painter. He has the impression that he creates his art as naturally as when he speaks or sleeps. His work addresses fundamental human questions concerning God, love, politics, ecology, or drugs. He uses proclamatory slogans illustrated in advertising language in the form of slogans. He trivializes tragic questions with banal forms.
www.ivanvosecky.com