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OBJECT:PARADISE is a performance and poetics collective that was founded in 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic by writers Tyko Say and Jeff Milton. The original concept was simple and remains our core principle today: let’s make the public poetry reading an accessible experience by making poetry more than a presentation of language by poets and for poets.

We don’t believe in a poetic language nor the best words in the best order, but rather believe that poetry is a procedural text that is subjected to the context in which it exists and the people who experience it. We want to deconstruct the classism and prejudice inherent in “good” language versus “bad” language use and, instead, celebrate the moment that language exists in.

In 2018, OBJECT:PARADISE held its first event, Poetry of Sound, at the Czech Inn in Prague, Czech Republic. The happening featured 8 readers, 1 improv musician, and a video projection of a woman giving birth. And, as the attendees of the event pieced together each element, the space itself became the poem--featuring words, sound, movement, and visuals.

We became obsessed with this feeling: poetry could be a happening, a party, a celebration--and everyone was invited to bring their own contributions and interpretations.

We found that with some orchestrated chaos and curation that distractions and disruptions could be seen also as part of the performance, alleviating
pretensions of “poetry” “poet” and “poem” for both the performers and attendees of our events. 


Since its creation, we have curated and directed various performances, installations, and multi-media projects in light of our Manifesto, generating a strong following of community members who seek to engage with a poetics that’s a contextually-dependent, interdisciplinary celebration.

The collective is currently managed by Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, and Jaromír Lelek.



Pictured: Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, and Jaromír Lelek scouting venues for OBJECT:PARADISE’s first international language happening. Krakow, Poland, 2022. Photo by Hunter Andrews.

︎ News 
[last updated August 26, 2024]


2024



2023



  • OBJECT:PRAHA IV premieres at Art Quarter in Budapest, Hungary (December 2023).
  • OBJECT:PRAHA IV premieres at BEJÁ VU (The Mark Divo Institute) in Beja, Portugal (November 2023).
  • OBJECT:PRAHA IV premieres at Hopscotch Reading room in Berlin (November 2023).
  • Tyko Say discusses contextual poetics and OBJECT:PARADISE with Vít Bohal of 3/4 Magazine (November 2023).
  • Select OBJECT:PARADISE curations are presented in the online curation The Outsiders as part of TheWrongBiennale (November 2023).
  • OBJECT:PRAHA IV Performance, Deformance, Reformance premieres at Prague Microfestival (October 2023).
  • Collages of KROTCH and media are used in the scenography of Prague Microfestival MicroLabs (September 2023).
  • OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its eight language happening, a three-day festival--Performance, Deformance, Reformance--across Czechia and Poland, featuring a curation of over fifty performances (August 2023).
  • OBJECT:PRAHA III The Manifesto is screened at Hardcœur Festival in Soucy, France (August 2023).
  • Excerpts of KROTCH Magazine are exhibited at Vangaurdia Network Party, curated by Jo Blin &
    Lucie Alalu (August 2023).
  • KROTCH Magazine celebrates 1-year of print with a special issue on OBJECT:PARADISE’s upcoming event: Performance, Deformance, Reformance (June 2023).
  • Warm Braník plays a concert at U Habásků, Prague (May 2022).
  • OBJECT:PARADISE is awarded a grant for their upcoming festival Performance, Deformance, Reformance from the VisegradFund (April 2023).
  • Chairman Tyko Say is interviewed by City Life Magazine (iDnes) about the Prague creative community (April 2023).


2022




2021




2020


  • The OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto is written (2020).
  • OBJECT:PARADISE registers as a non-profit organization with four members: Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, Jaromír Lelek, and Roksan Mandel (2020).
  • OBJECT:PRAHA premieres at Prague Microfestival XIV (November 2020).
  • OBJECT:SUNSET, a live-streamed VHS readings and piano performance on a Prague Rooftop is held (August 2020)
  • OBJECT:PARADISE is presented at Gathering of the Clans: a presentation of contemporary literary groups in Prague (July 2022).
  • OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its fith event, Tunnel Vision(s) (July 2020). 
  • At The Corner to the Right is filmed (July 2020).
  • The interview series OBJECT:VAULT begins with its first episode of Jaromír Lelek (June 2020).


2019




2018


  • OBJECT:PARADISE’s first event, Poetry of Sound, is held at the Czech Inn (November 2018).
  • Tyko Say and Jeff Milton form OBJECT:PARADISE (October 2018).

The OBJECT:PARADISE collective is currently governed by three members ︎

Founder & Director of Poetics and Media
Tyko Say

Director of Performance
Sandra Pasławska

Director of Poetics & Czech Media
Jaromír Lelek  





/ OBJECT:PARADISE IS THE INDUCTIVE SEDUCTION OF THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT / USE THE LANGUAGE THAT THE PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE CREATE IN THAT MOMENT / CONTEXT IS COTEXT / EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE PERFORMANCE / THE AUDIENCE IS THE POET / DETHRONE, THEN DEMOTE THE POET WHO CAME KNOWING / ELIMINATE THE EGO / DEPLATFORM THE STAGE / ORCHESTRATE THE CHAOS / LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY IN A SINGLE MOMENT, THAT MOMENT /  DOWN WITH DENOTATION /  CELEBRATE THE PARTY THAT LANGUAGE IS / THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER DOES NOT EXIST / LET ALL PLANS GO WRONG / DEMONETIZE LANGUAGE / EMBRACE MISCOMMUNICATION /  PROMOTE THE CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD TO BE EXPERIENCED IN THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT