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I am preparing a film about the perception of time during travels to the south, west and mainly the north of Finland.

~ ~ While in slow focus of meditation with stones and trees, the mist of clouds sends us for a journey to sense the timelesness. On our way we will visit museum of nature, get an insight on the impact of tourism to environments and play badminton with meditation guide from India.

Master's project at the Film and TV School of Prague, 2024.

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Altering in Fotograf magazine, issue #40 "Earthlings"

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Memories from the visited place

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Alter, 2021.

A short experimental film from the game environment. The hitchhiker reaches a place that has been altered by human activity. The surrounding landscape resembles a Nordic, cold scenery, there is fog and no one anywhere. The night slowly turns into a dreamlike journey into the depths of the cave.

3D rendering: me Voice: me Humming and singing: Dorota Václavíková Sound: Jan Pulo

Inscriptions in characters in the cave by Lucie ��čurková. They are made from the bark beetle paths. The inspiration for using this were the bark beetle calamities during 2018-2019 which devastated huge amounts of forest areas in the Czech Republic. It was a result of long-term effects of growing inappropriate vegetation compositions for the purpose of profit combined with the change of climate. Shortly, way too many spruces all over.

The characters represent standard alphabet, encoded. It was later changed for not differentiating latin "i" versus greek "y" as these have the same pronountiation in Czech, but written in words, they distinguish the gender of the speaker. Whenever there is group of people, the male "i" is used automatically.

The text starts with: "Na počátku byla tma..." ("At the beginning, it was dark...") screened at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2021 in the experimental section Exprmntl.cz

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A live-streamed performance project. 

Made together with Ishkväro Zvan (aka Adam Směták).

During COVID-19 restricitons we created an experimental space that should reflect disruption of boundaries between “inner” and “outer” space by text recitation. This text contained different fragments including proclamations of politics, all-surrounding advertisement and also some experiences with altering mind by using meditation techniques, psychedelics or spontaneously. These states of mind were connected with feelings of anxiousness from depersonalization we both had been separately experiencing in the past.

During the epidemic situation we had the possibility to “invade” the “normal” traffic of the gallery. This “spontaineous purification” was accompanied with music jamming and noisy-glitchy audiovisual multiplications of performance’s elements by using videocalls. Text that have been read was intended to be partly disappearing in the space, therefore, non-czech speakers might have an impression at least.

video link: https://www.facebook.com/svetova1/videos/3389619027783133

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Site-specific installation. Part of the exhibition called Rodná hrouda about specific landscape phenomena in Pardubice region called Kunětická hora. (A geomorphological formation, so-called “mountain” in the flat landscape, symbol of Pardubice region.) Stone from the “mountain” was being mined for the historical core of Pardubice and Hradec Králové cities. Even the cellar where the exhibition is located is made from it. 

There cannot be seen formation without light. The lights touch the stones and reveal them from the darkness. Now we have clear vision. But we are loosing softness of the detail.

Made together with Jan Svatoš.

Blow-ups, drawing, painting, tablet video, projection, three spotlights with on/off interval 1 minute. 

vcg.cz

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My grandparents, their friends and then their children started to visit a place in the forest they had chosen near their village. They searched for a place simply for mutual gatherings, sharing their lives and for creating a mutual energy.  Their efforts to create a beautiful place faced destroying several times. The biggest thing was building 400kV power lines up above the place in 1970, including cutting some trees around. And, when I say up above, I should mention the pilgrim chapel too. They had chosen a place on a path going up to more than two hundred years old christian chapel. All in the times when everything was everybody's. And, in this era, people might lost their relation to landscape because of taking it from private property, but they could find it differently. Although at Opékadlo (how they called the place) is now one cottage, few benches to sit-down and this area is nowadays more then fifty years still on place, a big part of the old friends' community is now up above. I used this story as a model situation for collision between personal and general. The meaning of above in a religious or spiritual way is staying in the contrast with system above we all should follow; we all use electricity...

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Carrier Phase Change

From the woods to the sea, flowing on the river. The sculpture “Carrier” was burned down during this performance. This meant also that my stay in Norway is at the end after finishing a semester long Erasmus internship.

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Works in group exhibition called “Dancing Around the So-so”. We wanted to encourage ourselves to exhibit something we are in a progress with, we are experimenting with or what we are not really sure about.

My contribution is related to searching for sensible coexistence of natural and cultural. I am focused on post-human materials – waste in the environment. This work is a show-up of more unfinished works together trying to visualize its connection link.

wood, plastic, 3D print, stones

Together with students of Fine Arts Department of the National University of Arts in Oslo, 2018

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So what, do we have to create things?

Videoessay about person and place.  This video is about every no thing. The edge between natural and industrial is being explored and broke down by pure presence.  How should I perceive the reality while documenting it? To become a part of the world, I have to go also in front of the camera. 

So, what now? We have everything. Whether we go out of our city or we are in, we are anonymous. Just as the matter we exploit. Material we use for our products. Anonymous stones. Where is the I? Maybe we do not have anything.

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Hledání Mentefaktu / Searching for Mentifact

We are entering the Zone, we accept residues of global capitalism facing initiation of change. We know that this land is not ours anymore, it has never been. Being inside of wild-getting unknown, re-connect ourselves. 

Installation in Gallery AMU (GAMU) Prague in June 2018 during the Fake Me exhibition is a collection of materials found & used & reused & transformed & thrown away from fire based rituals we did in the Zone, former landfill in Brno. We were free of expectations and just stayed for a week inviting people, being all eyes, trying to search, react and be a part of. Nobody knew what would happen at that time.

There was a livestream to the gallery, where uninitiated person crossed through the key stalkers's spots in a real time, here & now. link to the livestream (no sound): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThtFUE8uZKA&t=1s

Největším zrcadlem určitého subjektu je prostředí kolem. Náš poznatek zní: chceme-li prožít skutečnost za hranicí sociální struktury, ve které právě žijeme, jsme-li při pozorování člověkem opuštěného environmentu zaujatí pocitem znovuobjevení čehosi hlubšího, mimolidského a živého, pak možná vytváříme obrázky o věcech posunuté v čase.

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(view on City Surfer Office; photo by Jonáš Verešpej)

With Big Love. From the collaboration of Studio of post-conceptual photography, Film and TV School (FAMU) Prague. City Surfer Office, Prague, April 2018

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(photo from installation by M.N.)

From the exhibition digitalnaive.cz (link not in use anymore)

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Yellow Company's YC_02_Tenebrio-Molitor.

Transformation of first project YC_01_Cordyceps.  Organic processes, waste, collective metamorphosis. Based on cohabitation of (up to) six people in one flat. exhibited in Gallery 209, FaVU Brno 2018. https://galerie209.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/21-3-18_yellow-company-yc_02_tenebrio-molitor/

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Field Brownfeel itself in photos post 3/3

jenom Sysifos zametá kuličky polystyrenu / only Sysiphus sweeps the balls of polystyrene

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project Brownfeel post 2/3

(2nd variant of the installation: as an exhibition) Gallery Panel, Prague 28/02 - 23/03 2018

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project Brownfeel post 1/3

(1st variant of the installation: as a semestral exam) (taste of upcoming exhibition)