/ open atelier of MeetFactory resident

during the opening - Friday 18. 12. from 7 p.m

Kit Reisch

Inspired loosely by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (which begins: “Gregor Samsa…discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug”), Kit Reisch has been working to create a visual and aural transformation of his Meetfactory studio through use of found objects, sculpture, audio, and drawings. Reisch is interested in exploring the reactive and transformative process which he himself is undergoing while living and working in Prague. Psychological conflict is a central theme of this exhibition, where embarrassment and hubris are celebrated in equal measure.

A lot of movies convey stereotypes about the artist.

The role of the artist both in fictional films and in biopics is focused on the artist’s idiosyncratic behavior, his love affairs, his self-destruction associated with a mystification of his creative production or on encounters with other protagonists of the art world such as the collector, the gallerist, the model or the art student. Artists are almost solely painters, which reconfirms the inadequate representation of visual artists in movies.

In the video ‘Reframing the Artist’ fragments from approximately 50 different movies such as ‚Pollock’, ‚Surviving Picasso’ or ‘La belle Noiseuse’ are reset in the Oil Painting Village, Dafen. Dafen, situated in Shenzhen, China, is the world’s largest producer of mass-produced handmade oil-on-canvas copy paintings supplying a global market mainly sourced from the Western canon.

In the video copy painters take over the role of amateur actors of selected movie scenes. Mass production of oil painting copies from Dafen and the recurrent use of artist stereotypes in the mass media film converge to a new narrative that lies between fiction and documentary. By a shift of context ‘Reframing the Artist’ raises questions about the view of the “exotic” other, both the visual artist as well as the Chinese copy painter.

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/ artist in residence exhibition

19. 12. 2009 -  17. 1. 2010

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Sascha Pohle / Reframing the Artist

Michal Moravčík / SUBTILNÍ HISTORIE

Adam Holý / CROSFIELD

MeetFactory Artists in Residency program is supported by The Embassy of The Netherland Kingdom Prague, Fond BKVB, Visegrad Fund, Goethe- Institut Prague, Czech and German Fund of Future.

19. 12. 2009 -  17. 1. 2010

The Banquet

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This project is supported by The Embassy of The Netherlands Kingdom Prague and Nethworks festival.

mše za tři mrtvé muže

16. 12., 20:00

scénář a režie: Miroslav Bambušek

Film Jan Hus - mše za tři mrtvé muže je výsostně politický v tom smyslu, že se zabývá lidmi, kterým běh věcí veřejných nebyl lhostejný.

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“Subtle History” by Michal Moravcik (b.1974, Bratislava) freely continues the project “Farewell and good bye” which was accomplished in front of Tugendhat villa in Brno in 2008. This one is conceived as an installation enabling visitors to enter the recent history of Czechoslovakia. The subject of Moravcik’s research is a spectator’s memory and possibly the information gained by him related to the period of common history of Czech and Slovak people in the timeline of the last century. By entering the installation, the spectator adopts a certain attitude towards a section of shared history and gets an opportunity to re-evaluate, delete physically the parts which they consider problematic. They can “move” the history by moving a large piece of glass. The concept of subtle history /U.Eco/ rejects the linearity of history, it enables returning backwards as well as the possibility to invoke causes by the consequences.[/lang_en-us

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V pátek 4.12 se v prostorech Meetfactory odehraje výroční technoparty nejstaršího českého sound sytému Cirkus Alien, jenž v těchto dnech slaví 15 let své existence. Krom tradičních technobeatů acidového rázu, se návštěvníci mohou těšit na divadelní performance, která vypukne kolem půlnoci a měla by trvat necelou hodinu. Členové Cirkus Alien se za vydatné pomoci výtvarnice a scénografky vystupující pod jménem Toy-Box, tímto způsobem rozhodli oslavit své narozeniny a zároveň tak do uniformní české technoscény přinést trochu invence, která zde citelně chybí. Skutečnost, že performance bude mít i jisté politické vyznění je u Cirkusu Alien, jenž se k autonomním a anarchistckým myšlenkám vždy hlásil, již samozřejmostí. Mejdan vypukne po 21 hodině a měl by trvat do časného rána. Cena by neměla přesáhnout 150 kč.

opening on Friday November 13th at 7 pm + music by Kiss Tempera & Black Dumpling, Dirt, ANTENA & dží.
exhibition will run till December 13th

In his exhibition „Visions of Macbeth”, Markus Selg concentrates the classic tragedy of Shakespeares´ Macbeth into a scenario of memories and dreams.
Using filmprojections, music, fog, wind, light and minimalistic requisites Selg creates a dreamscape throughout the MeetFactory Gallery which tells the story of Macbeth from a point of no return. From a point, where all hope is lost, euphoria is gone and destiny is certain.

Visions of a tempting prophecy;
The dream of becoming king and queen;
The illusion of ever lasting power and invulnerability;
All these ghosts appear and fade constantly throughout the hypnotic scenario of the
exhibition which culminates in the Ruins of Inverness (Lady Macbeth and Macbeth´s
former castle). Encouraged by the soundscape, including Hindemith´s Harmonie der Welt, Mahler´s 9th and Liszt´s Finale of Faust, time slows down to an expanded moment
of bitter sweet memories - waiting for the end to come.

CHORUS MYSTICUS

All things transitory
Are only symbols;
What is insufficient,
Here becomes an event;
The indescribable
Here is accomplished;
The eternal feminine
Pulls us upwards.

(Goethe, Faust, 1831)

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