intermedia symposium
"fairy-tale - po-hádka"opening events & presentations: 24-25-26-27 september 1999
Plasy Monastery
friday 24th thru monday 27th - presentation of installations in the granary and prelature ... film screenings ... and ...saturday 25th - 3pm
- concert in prelature courtyard - "Kuchar" Brass Band (Kralovice)5pm- performance in cloister chapel
- Petr Niklsunday 26th - 3:30 pm
- parade with a monstrous dragon and dragon music through Plasy - Michael Crockford & the Zihle Elementary School and others from the Center for Metamedia5 pm - concert in cloister chapel
- Irena and Vojtech Havlovi"fairy-tale - po-hádka"is an international intermediary symposium of visual artists addressing forms of narrative both conditioned by and distinct from contemporary communications technologies. The participating artists, each combining various media through a multidisciplinary practice, have come together at the CMM to examine and explore their relation to (and understanding of) contemporary narrative structures in the visual arts. Conjoining one of the oldest forms of narrative - the fairy tale - with the current and historical contexts of Central Europe, the symposium investigates the idea of the real as we assimilate it through various sources of information, addressing the narratives that construct a reality and simultaneously mediate its apprehension. During their residency at the CMM, the artists are developing works addressing this theme within a collaborative environment encouraging the exchange of ideas across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
The guest curator: Denise Carvalho (Brazil-USA), visual artist and critic, contributes to Flash Art, Review, New Observations, Sculpture, and Cover.
The artists: Michel Gerard (USA), Alex Villar (USA), Alison Cornyn (USA), Mark Shepard (USA-Germany), Abdelali Dahrouch (France-USA), Jacques Roch and Tony Roch (GB-USA), Barbara Broughel (USA), Erwin Redl (Austria), Dan Devine (USA), Michael Crockford (USA) Stephanie Syjuco (USA). Mare Tralla (Estonia), Monika Brandmeier (Germany), Redas Dirzys (Lithuania) Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Bilijana Petrovska Isijanin (Macedonia), Charlie Citron (Holland), Gail Pickering (GB), Medime Sovan Kumar (India), Melissa Laing (New Zealand),Toshihiro Yashiro (Japan), János Sugár (Hungary), Yuri Lederman (Russia), František Skála jr. (Czech Republic)
Project Support: Czech Ministry of Culture, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Pro Helvetia Ost West, Open Society Fund, UNESCO, Rakouský kulturní Institut, The British Council, ADMIRA s.r.o.