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executives
of power and subversivity
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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
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(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 |
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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...?
Pictures
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 Chábová
Viola and Milada
Gajdová - violoncello
http://chabova.wz.cz
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