DIENSTBIER executives of power and subversivity
03.-06. December 2003

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03.12.03 wednesday Bilder
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Stadtwerkstatt (19:00)
Mirror images
- Jana Bauerová, Caslav - photo collages
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Signs
- Michál Radl, Krumlov - pictures

Pictures

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Cesta, Tabor - Presentation Cultural Exchange Station (Cesta)
Since 1993, CESTA has concentrated its efforts on international arts festivals, group exchanges, residencies, and the development of an informational global network for artists in all fields of artistic expression and cultural production.

CESTA
Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor

The Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA) is an international non-profit center established to foster cultural understanding and tolerance through the arts. Since 1993, CESTA has concentrated its efforts on international arts festivals, community projects, group exchanges, residencies, and the development of an informational global network for artists in all fields of artistic expression and cultural production.

The concept of cultivating cultural understanding and awareness through the arts is based on the recognition that traditional dialogue has its limits and prejudices. Through an open and flexible environment, CESTA strives to challenge these limits in a contained context and present alternatives for use in a larger context.

Our location in the Czech Republic provides us with a keen perspective on a transitional society, both ideologically and economically. In effect, CESTA is a laboratory where committed cultural work takes place alongside cultural work takes place alongside community-building projects. We do not see CESTA as so unique that our activities will not translate across cultural lines or societal values.
Rather, we pursue a course of one amongst many projects -- the many including the known and the unknown.

Art, to us, is not limited to the abstract, the ethereal, but includes social awareness. Thus, the sociopolitical aspect of cultural work is inherent in all of our productions and processes, from our events to our administration to our facility design.

For more information, please contact us at:
CESTA
Novákova ulice 387
Tábor 390 01
Czech Republic
tel./fax: +420-381-258-004
email: <cesta@mbox.vol.cz>
www.cesta.cz

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04.12.03 thursday Bilder
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transpublic
mmm - hhh !
(19:00)- Videodokumentation and printtable
By research, assortment and presentation of local magazines current tendencies of Czech Art and cultural production should be shown.

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Stadtwerkstatt
Sabot
, (22:00) Tabor - Instrumental Duo: Christopher Rankin - bass guitar and Hilary Binder - drums

SABOT was formed in 1988 in San Francisco, California by the rhythm section of the punk-folk trio Forethought. SABOT has since continued to be a bass & drums instrumental duo (and kept all original members!).

Christopher Rankin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After moving to Boulder, Colorado in 1978, he began studying saxophone and clarinet. He formed his first industrial music group, Problemist, in San Francisco, California in 1981. Towards the end of his involvement with Problemist, he switched from saxophone and synthesizer to bass guitar. In 1984 he formed Morally Bankrupt, a four-piece progressive punk group. His musical career continued when he met guitarist/singer Tommy Strange, also from Ohio. Together with Tommy and Hilary, he formed the punk-folk trio Forethought in 1986. Two years later he and Hilary moved on to form SABOT.

Christopher's musical influences began at an early age with classical music and Dixieland jazz. During the '70s he developed an appreciation for progressive rock and contemporary jazz. Through Problemist and Morally Bankrupt he gained exposure to and experience with industrial music, punk and other independent musical styles of the '80s. Today he spends his time listening to ear-splattering Japanese noise bands and the occasional super avant and difficult jazz movements of the late '60's. He also tends towards calming his frazzled nerves with super speed metal, particularly Death and Napalm Death.

Hilary Binder was born in Washington, D.C. She began her musical career at 6, studying classical violin and piano. Frustrated with the confines of classical music, she began to teach herself drumming at 15 and formed her first punk group, Death Before School, in 1981. After moving to San Francisco, she eventually hooked up with Christopher and Tommy and continued drumming. With the formation of SABOT came an opportunity to expand on the traditional drumming styles of her past groups.
Hilary's musical influences started with her classical musical training and continue to affect her ideas about composition. For ten years she almost exclusively listened to punk and hardcore music, though she is always sneaking in private time with soul, go-go and hip hop.

Pictures
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Some Other Place, Tabor - The music can also remind one of soundtracks to films not yet filmed.

SOME OTHER PLACE
A new type of music? A transmission of slow acoustic-level instrumental arrangements, which flow through all their compositions. Some Other Place recalls rituals, shamans who heal wounds and soar with the spirits. The music can also remind one of soundtracks to films not yet filmed.

Some Other Place = urban spirit music. The band was started in 1999 in a small town (place) called Maršov u Tábora. By 2001, the band was satisfied with the trio line-up: Karel Sychra, Jaroslav Klípa and ZdenekKadlec, who, in the 90’s, played in the cult industrial band The Three. Originally, the Some Other Place line-up included a singer, who was replaced in 2002 with the keyboard and clarinet player Zdenek Sychra, formerly the bass guitarist for the well-known local trashcore band Pesticide. From that time, they have tried to find their own voices in the music.

They are famous for their unusual concerts in unusual places, which they themselves call happenings. In the Autumn of 2002 they recorded their debut record, To Be Continued, which was released by Free Dimension Records.

Some Other Place:
Zdenek Kadlec – kytary, keyboard, zpev (guitar, keyboards, vocals)
Karel Sychra – bass (bass guitar)
Jaroslav Klípa – bicí (drums)
Zdenek Sychra – keyboard, klarinet (keyboards, clarinet)
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Mirror images - Jana Bauerová, Caslav - Fotocollagen
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Signs
- Michál Radl, Krumau - Bilder

Pictures

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05.12.03 friday Bilder
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KunstRaum Goethestrasse
Czech trick films
(19:00)- samples from the history and current czech experimental films and video all night long.
curated by Milos Vojtechovsky

historical work:
"Postava k podpírán" (CSSR, 38, 1963) directed by
Jan Schmidt, Pavel Jurácek.

Collection of the most important experimental films made in
Czech between 1992-2000 z.B.: Dust Games document on the IMF
summit in Prague 2000. director Martin Marecek, Prague 2001.
works by: Martin Blazicek, Martin Cihak, Jan Danhel, Martin
Jezek, Vit Pancir, Alice Ruzickova, Emil Kubis and Frantisek Wirth.

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Stadtwerkstatt
Mirror images - Jana Bauerová, Caslav - Fotocollagen
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Signs
- Michál Radl, Krumau - Bilder


Pictures


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06.12.03 saturday Bilder
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Backwood Association, Harrachsthal
Non-verbal performance- (20:00)
„Life according to a mayfly“ - physical theatre, Prague
A story about a mayfly who thinks she is Marilyn Monroe.
What does it mean to wait for the "favourable moment"?
How can we be sure that we can discern it? And does it ever come...?
idea, set design, lights: Eva Blahová
choreography: Natalie Slovácková, Eva Leimbergerová
interpretation: Eva Leimbergerová
live music: Ridina Ahmedová

LIFE ACCORDING TO A MAYFLY
1. The basic „biological“ story
The Nymph of mayfly [ephemera vulgata] lives in an underground burrow on the bottom of lakes and rivers. She stays there for 3-4 years, eating and growing. Once she is fat enough, her skin cracs and she has to unrobe and liberate her brand new wings. If she doesn¨t succeed, she dies incarcerated in the rags of her old skin.
Even though the mayfly spends several years growing and “getting ready for life”, her “real” life lasts only 24 hours.
During this lap of time she has to procreate – on the female body there are two vaginas, the males dance “wedding dances” to lure on the females.
When the reproduction is over, the mayfly female gets close to some water surface – there she delivers eggs and then dies.
It seems everything is over, but whole story is going on...


LIFE ACCORDING TO A MAYFLY is not only about a mayfly dreaming about being Marilyn Monroe, it is about time, about its passage. Sometimes time runs so fast and then
goes so slowly....
It is also about sudden freedom that we hoped to come for so long and when it does come, we suddenly find out that we are not ready to take advantage of it...
The performance is looking for answers to following questions: What is our delimited time like? What does it mean to wait for the "favourable moment"?
How can we be sure that we can discern it? And does it ever come...?

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afterwards
Ludmila Chábová- viola and Milada Gajdová - violincello
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im Anschluss
Ludmila Chábová- viola and Milada Gajdová - violoncello
Benjamin Britten: Elegy for Unaccompanied Viola
Ludwig van Beethoven: Duo for Viola and Violoncello
Johan Sebastian Bach: Suite in d-minor for violoncello solo

Duo Incantante - Ludmila Ch&aacute;bov&aacute; Viola and Milada
Gajdov&aacute; - violoncello
http://chabova.wz.cz