Jindřich Chalupecký Society and Moravian Gallery in Brno cordially invite you to the accompanying programme for the exhibition Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2024 and the exhibition of the international guest Selma Seman: Through the Flames.
November 30
14:00 - 16:00
I'm scratched, but I don't want to go in the trash. Can you get me a new coat?
Have you seen the exhibition of international guest Selma Selman in the Atrium space of the Pražák Palace? If so, you must have noticed that instead of canvas, the artist paints on metal sheets and parts, that are considered as waste. In connection with her exhibition, the Moravian Gallery lecturer Robert Spurný has prepared a workshop of painting on battered tin cups for both children and adults. The workshop will take place in the children's playroom of the Pražák Palace.
Tin cups will be available, but we also ask the participants to bring their own. Health friendly paints will be used.
During the activity there will be a reading from the publication Beyond the Nuclear Family, hosted by the curators of JCHS, Karina Kottová, Barbora Ciprová and Tereza Jindrová.
16:00
Guided tour and babysitting
17:00IDENTITY POLITICS IN ART: The Voice of Romani Artists
Lecture by artist and founder of ArtivistLab Tamara Moyzes: Accompanying programme to the exhibition of the international guest Selma Selman
Can we decolonize contemporary art? How should the art of the Roma minority be reflected, exhibited, updated and decolonized? And how do the representatives of this minority feel about it?
The lecture will introduce contemporary Roma artists through their artistic and curatorial practice. It will highlight the first contemporary art exhibitions in Prague with the participation of Roma artists, present projects from the Prague Artivist Lab, as well as the artistic group "Romane Kale Panthera / Roma Black Panthers".
19:00Book launch of "The Art Institution of Tomorrow" by Fatoş Üstek and the "Sharing circle", ENG friendly
Book launch of The Art Institution of Tomorrow by Fatoş Üstek, curator and theoretician and member of the international jury of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.
The publication explores how to secure the future of art institutions through inclusivity, sustainability and resilience. Üstek's book presents a practical vision of how to reshape institutional practices for the next generation of artists and audiences.
The event will include a discussion on the mischiefs and examples of good practice in the context of artistic operations in the Czech and Slovak context with representatives of local cultural institutions.
December 1
10:00 - 15:00
Symposium "Black sheep" by laureate Judita Levitnerová
The symposium will introduce the locally unique Art Protis tapestry technique. The production of these tapestries originated in the 1960s and has experienced several downturns, both qualitative and ideological, after its "golden era". The 60th anniversary year is dedicated mainly to technical and technological problems. We are interested in the point at which the concern for craft or tradition itself ceases to be the diction of individuals and becomes institutionalised in the respective fields. What have been the attempts so far to sustain this technology?
11:00 - 13:00 No Fun gaming
No Fun collective invites you to sit in the installation 14 Days in May and the fictional world they have created in the gallery space. After an author reading and play, you will venture together to places that are not (yet) on the gallery's wall map. During our shared, collective imagination, we'll try to find answers to how to live a day in a city where cars have disappeared; where other perma-gardens lie that can overwhelm the remnants of the system that makes us sit to work; and what other play can be imagined in our world. Nothing is needed to participate, except perhaps writing utensils and a willingness to think together about cautiously optimistic speculative scenarios the future might take.
