program in english – NASTEVŘENO

Sunday 2/6
14:00 – 17:00 Katanari: THE JOURNEY | theater for one spectator
14:00 – 17:00 Zen garden | installation
14:00 and 15:30 Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya: HOW TO TIME THE DISTANCE OF BREATH | interactive performance
17:30 mimoOs & col.: TETSU | dance performance

EXHIBITIONS
will be created live during the festival, completed works will be on display from Friday 20:00 until the end of the festival

Antonín Brinda: CITY AS A PLAYGROUND
workshop of performance in public space
Thu 30 May 2024, 15:00–17:00
Fri 31 May 2024, 14:00–16:00
Sat 1 June 2024, 11:00–13:00

During this workshop, the public space of the city of Plzeň will become the main working material. Over three days, we will explore three possible approaches to work in public space through performance – invisible, minimalist, and expressive. This journey will take us from conceptual actions that go unnoticed by the average city user to bold expressions that immediately capture attention.

The workshop is especially suitable for high school and university students, but also for the general public interested in performance in public space. We recommend attending all three days of the workshop, as they build on each other, but it is also possible to join for just one or two days. Registration is required.

Vendula Tomšů, Johana Pocková: MEET THE FOX AND MELT AWAY
Thursday 17:30 / Moving station – platform / intermedia performance

Creating small postcards from places I walk through. Framing a piece of landscape and storing it in memory. Collecting souvenirs from travels in the grass. Filling my pockets with them. Recording sounds, documenting journeys, preserving memories. Telling stories.

This project was supported by the ART-IN-RES program, the Nová síť organization, and was included in the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists platform.

Vendula Tomšů Set designer, artist, and performer.
In addition to set design, she engages in creating performances for a smaller number of viewers. In this genre, she finds space for interdisciplinary experimentation, the possibility to get closer to the audience, and to encourage effortless interaction. She is interested in transforming the viewer from a passive recipient to an active co-creator of the work.

Johana Pocková – Dancer and choreographer.
In her work, she is interested in finding a lyrical and poetic dance language combined with absurdity and irony based on current social and cultural themes. She is also interested in connecting dance with other art forms such as classical singing, acting, and visual arts. She is the founder of the dance group PockEtArt.

Tygr v tísni: LANDSCAPE WITH WAREHOUSES
Thursday 19:00 / Moving Station – Main stage / Performance

The end of the year in the West Bohemian borderlands. The glow of warehouse halls and the melancholic charm of advent attract lonely souls. The living and the dead gather in the scarred landscape in front of the workers‘ hostel. They settle scores from the past, dream of a better future, bring their secrets to light, and everyone suffers from insomnia.

The contemporary play by Cheb native Marie Nováková is a portrait of a landscape deeply scarred by modern history. It takes place in a location that has been treated as strategic territory for the last hundred years, not as a community, and people here died far from their homes. Strange encounters occur here at night. A meeting of former border guards is disrupted by an unwelcome guest from the past, a retired prostitute converses with Bashkir fighters, and a Polish warehouse worker confides in a Sudeten German.

David Helán: VYDRAŽ DĚNÍ SLOVNÍKOVCŮ
Friday 16:30 / Plzeň Main Station / performance
meet the performer on the platform, departure by train at 16:44 OS 27310 to Jižní předměstí

David Helán’s artistic personality uniquely synthesizes two different influences: performance and cabaret entertainment. The scope of his work is very broad. It includes various performances, video performances, action art, installations, work with photography, fine arts, and new media and their fusions. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he was part of the Studio of Conceptual Creation led by Prof. Miloš Šejn. Characteristic of David Helán’s work is the use of Dadaist principles, spontaneous immediacy, experimentation, and humor. His live actions contain elements of absurd theater with overlaps into purely contemporary themes and serious issues.

http://www.davidhelan.com/

jezgrlz: AND WHAT CAN I GET YOU?
Friday 18:00 / Café / Performance

A participatory performance from the world of gastronomy. Stand up, come in, dress up, tie up, prepare, open, smile. What does the customer bring to the establishment and what does the employee bring? What does a person expect from service in a café? What does an employee expect from customers? Proper behavior, slow service, communication. And will you indulge?

Kamila Hrnčířová, Lucie Vacovská, Barbora Wortnerová, Aicha Roubíčková, Klára Lidinská

ka3ka3: TIME TO CLEAN UP
Friday 19:00 / Moving Station – Hall / performance

Does the floor of the Moving Station center need care? The realization of a long-held idea in the head, representing the next development in the Time to Clean Up series.

ka3ka3
(pronounced „kashkash”) Since 2018, she has used her artistic name as a gesture following the sudden death of her father. It originates from a family nickname and, for the artist herself, also expresses freedom of expression, especially in her creative work. The nickname refers to a play on the Czech keyboard, where „3“ shares a key with the letter „š,“ but also to the French term for the game of hide-and-seek, cache-cache.

In her projects, she explores and translates internal and external connections or the influence of contemporary digital dimensions on the psyche into physical form. It is typical for her to not only engage the audience but also gently activate them. In her performances, she processes her own physicality, which is important to her both materially and content-wise. The costumes in her performances often highlight the possibilities and limitations of physicality.

Antonín Brinda: CROSSING THE ROAD
Friday 19:00 / Ivan Magor Jirous Bridge / Durational Performance

As part of the event, artist Antonín Brinda will spend two hours crossing a road outside of a pedestrian crossing. This minimalist performance continues his long-term research on public space and transport infrastructure, examining the role that human bodies play within these structures. The work subtly explores how urban space determines and restricts human movement and what possibilities we – as city users – have to transcend these limitations.

Guided Exhibition Tour
Friday 20:00 / Moving station and around / Art Opening
Fri 31 May 2024, 20:00
Moving station and around

Guided tour of art at Moving Station and its immediate surroundings. Presentation of process-based projects and visual art created specifically for the Nastevřeno festival.

Heidi Hornáčková: GOING OUT, LISTENING, TASTING
Saturday 13:00 / Meeting Point: Moving Station – hall / Visit of Urban Wilderness

A walk into urban wilderness offers a comprehensive experience of gathering persistent weeds, during which participants will taste the possibilities of their culinary use. This excursion aims to stimulate sensory connection with the surroundings and encourage a deeper exploration of the taste of nature and new possibilities in performative gastronomy.

Run Operun: OPERAVE
Friday 21:00 / Moving Station – Main stage / Party

If you don’t come to the opera, the opera will come to you. We bring something between Berghain and Bayreuth to the stage.

Introducing a new dimension of party where it makes sense to dance to both classical and electronic music simultaneously. By merging opera singers, DJs, and the atmosphere of techno, OPERAVE is born. Expect neither a performance nor a concert – we will bring elements of opera to the rave as it should be. Opera and electronic music will become equal partners. Entertainment will be provided by Noisy Pots, Tanita Yanková, and opera singers Bella Adamova and Eva Esterková.

At OPERAVE, we break down barriers between the grand opera culture and the nightlife of raves, building on values where both musical worlds can coexist. You will feel comfortable regardless of which genre you prefer.

bazmek entertainment: DREAMS OF CONCRETE
Saturday 15:00 / Meeting at Moving Station Hall / Audiowalk, bring headphones and a phone

The city can be both beautiful and ugly. Clean and dirty. Organized and chaotic. Everyone wants to feel safe and comfortable in the city they live in. But how can we achieve that? What role do people play in it? And aren’t we – its inhabitants – just part of the dreams that the city dreams every day?

During the audiowalk, Dreams of Concrete, listeners will have the opportunity to walk through the city on their own route and listen to the stories of people who may live in it. Various characters in several short chapters address the problems of their city and communal living, and reflect on the different needs of other inhabitants. In their company, listeners can slow down and take a walk to notice their surroundings, which may have become mundane to them.

Just take a walk through the city where you live and listen to the stories of its inhabitants. Voyeurism combined with urbanism, a radio play combined with a health walk, dreams intertwined with concrete.

Aljoša Lovrić Krapež + Collective: IS JOY
Saturday 17:30 / Moving Station – Platform / Performance

They create what fills them with pride, what urges them to move. They look upon their work as children look upon a handcrafted creation. Shape doesn’t matter to them, nor do sources or consequences.

Younger children build for fun, older ones fulfill realism.

Leaves, chairs, bubble wrap, coat hangers, doors, feathers, inflatable balloons, nails, pallets, trampoline, washing machine, and plenty of ropes, all pulling towards the sky!

In his directorial approaches, Aljoša Lovrić Krapež explores notions of engaging with the materiality of the world as a holistic and collective experience, where the sensory body becomes the fundamental medium of existence. His research is based on the idea that performative art can be examined as a medium of a yet unnamed collective presence, working at the intersection of haptic, somatic, non-verbal, dance, visual, and object theater. He sees this as a celebration of existence.

Building a part of the universe that moves others.

ABWESEN
Saturday 19:00 / Movind Station – Main Stage / Dance Performance

The dance performance, Abwesen (Absence), deals with the paradoxical situation: the presence of absence. One of the impulses for its creation was the experiences from the lockdown.

Karel Vaněk and Guido Preuß explore the complex theme of absence in their new work: as a physical experience, in dance, and in life, individually and collectively. As fantasy, dream, and a state of lack. To what extent is the concept of „being here and now“ threatened when we perceive our existence only as an illusion?

Together with three dancers, the creators develop a movement language that understands absence as a source and impulse. Brazilian native Sonia Mota, born in 1948, and two younger dancers Josefine Patzelt and Geraldine Rosteius bring with them very different biographical experiences, which merge into movement material. The presence of the three female bodies is also a visualization of emptiness in their own perception, a desire for touches and defense against excessive closeness, fear of loneliness, and a longing for personal space.

Ay Lak
Saturday 22:00 / Moving Station / Sound Performance

A relaxing sonic performance inspired by the environment.

In her music performances and DJ sets, Ay Lak combines atmospheric ambient soundscapes with reconstructed rhythms and playful synthetic sounds based on field recordings and vocals, stories, and lullabies. This develops her interest in inter-species encounters and in creating her own language, based on the semantics and oral traditions of Slavic cultures.

Katanari: THE JOURNEY
Sunday 14:00 – 17:00 / In front of the Moving Station / Puppet performance for one spectator

A poetic journey through memories and dreamlike landscapes for a solitary traveler towards a place longing to be found. A 4-minute audiovisual experience viewed through a peephole in a box. Theater for one viewer.

Katanari is a visual artist and performer originally from Slovakia, specializing in authorial projects and scenographic collaboration. Her unique aesthetic is rooted in working with objects and puppets.

www.katanariart.com

THE ZEN GARDEN
Sunday 14:00 – 17:00 / Moving Station – Hall / a multisensory installation

Inspired by Japanese Zen gardens and natural elements, this festival chill-out zone offers a serene space for relaxation and rejuvenation and provides visitors with an opportunity to experience harmony through a carefully designed environment conducive to relaxation and inner peace.

Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya: HOW TO TIME THE DISTANCE OF BREATH
Sunday 14:00 and 15:30 / Moving Station – Small stage / Interactive Performance

In this artistic work, Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya focuses on something very simple yet profound – breathing. During her performance, she creates an intimate environment where participants can listen to each other’s breath. Through inflating balloons connected to microphones and headphones, a conducive environment is established for observing how much time and space our breathing process occupies in our lives. This experience is then reflected through clay flutes, which materialize the emerging air from the balloons into specific sounds. By pressing, touching, and blowing objects, a sonic landscape based on breath and the improvisation of participants is created.

Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya is an audiovisual artist based in Prague, originally from Belarus. In her practice, she co-creates spaces and performances based on visual installations, which create conditions for interaction with participants. Her actions are preceded by field research, including journeys, conversations, interactions with people, bodily practices, and experiments such as collective dreaming, from which she subsequently forms interstitial spaces and meeting places. Alesya is also one of the co-founders of the artistic collective OutsideininsideoutinsideoutoutsideiN. | www.alyakubouskaya.xyz

Peter Šavel, mimoOs & kol .: TETSU – The Energy That Shapes Us
Sunday 17:30 / Borský Park / Dance Performance

TETSU is a dance quintet that was created in close connection with musical composition. The structure of the entire work, both the musical and movement components, is inspired by the Chinese system of wuxing (known as gogyō in Japan), which explains the functioning of everything, from the universe and nature to the unique life of a human being, through five phases or elements. The creative team found similar systems in European traditions, such as pagan or Celtic customs and rituals, which also became valuable sources of inspiration.

TETSU can be seen as elements into which the audience can gaze and be carried away by their spontaneity and diverse pulsation. The elements strengthen and weaken throughout the performance, sometimes the audience needs to avert their gaze, while other times they have a desire to stoke it. TETSU brings images of unbridled energy that swirls around the audience and ultimately through them. After a while, viewers may notice how everyone, along with the dancers, gently moves to a shared rhythm. TETSU is primarily a celebration of life energy and movement. It is the energy that shapes us.

TETSU is the iron that forges five dancing bodies in an atmosphere of changing dynamic, tonal, and rhythmic phases of music.