Public House

The first Public House in this year will wake you up from hibernation! All our dramaturgies have joint forces and prepared for you the allnight art party with eventful programme. An exhibitions, theater, music, residencies, performances and workshops will occupy all available spaces of MeetFactory. Open your eyes, prick up one´s ear, we will begin on April 14 at 7pm.  

MeetFactory Gallery will open the exhibition The Portent of Light, which wants to pursue the enciting phenomenon of “lost knowledge”. Their works will present: : Caroline Achaintre, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Bonnie Camplin, Dominik Císař, Mark Fridvalszki, Maria Loboda, Milan Mikuláštík and Shana Moulton. Kostka Gallery will open the exhibition Vertical Gradation by our resident Juraj Gábor.
 
Beauty Free Shop Gallery will present the exhibition of Šárka Basjuk Koudelová, Ondřej Basjuk, Filip Černý, Lucie Mičíková and Viktorie Valocká titled Peel, which offers a several approaches to surface in contemporary painting.   

In the theater rehearsal will take place a last show of performance Woman in Taxi Crossing New York, which tells the story of a woman hospitalized for a emotional unstability, and in the theater hall a performance Všechna temnota světa nemůže uhasit světlo jediné male svíčky, based on the text inspired by the novel of Petr Šabach Zvláštní případ Františka S.  

The main music hall host a panel discussion: How to Earn a Living from Music in 2016? with music producer Stein Bjelland (NO), songwriter Jan P. Muchow, music promoter David Urban, indie label boss Lucia Udvardyová (SK/HU) and music journalist Pavel Kučera.
The SYNAPSE project was initiated by Insomnia Festival in Tromsø, Norway and MeetFactory and is funded by EEA Grant 2009-2014.
The evening will continue with the shows of  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (US) with her impressionistic version of synth-ambient music, experimental project We Will Fail (PL) in which pure electronic, samples and field recordings are mixed together, reffering to the techno aesthetics, and Portugese musician  IVVVO (PT) with his fusion of the gauzy techno and spectral electronic.  

The shows of We Will Fail and IVVVO are supported by the SHAPE 2016, platform, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.  

Throughout the whole evening will be open the studios our current artists-in-residence. In their studios you can meet: Alicja Rogalska, Rona Stern, Urban Space Epics, Anne-Claire Barriga, Juraj Gábor, Bartosz Kokosiński, Sarah Jones, Alice de Mont and Iza Taraszewicz. 

Filip Černý. Aldin Popaja and Jan Slovenčík – tutors our MeetF Academy - prepared an exhibition, performative meetings and workshop, which will also include music, dance, smoke and projections.

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