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OBJECT:PRAHA V : MOMENTUMENT PREMIERES JUNE 14th
Our annual film as part of the OBJECT:PRAHA series will be premiered on Saturday June 14th at the dernisaž of Robert Carrither's Black and White and Read All Over Exhibition at the Urban Spree Gallery in Berlin.
COME ONE COME ALL.
Momentument was a three-week project that happened and then didn't. The objective of the project was to ask & answer...If you could paint a state of mind... Would anyone else understand? And would that be art? Or would it just be a moment?
Community members of lower Žižkov were invited to dress two large blank canvases with whatever media, mediums, and motives at their disposal.
For the second event, we invited them back to place empty picture frames in areas that they thought should be seen. Then, we removed the excess canvas--the context & larger image--and exhibited each of the framed pieces for a vernissage & dernisage of the project. At the end of this final event, people took their framed pieces off the wall, like a memory from the whole: subjective, Individual, and never complete.
The film is an artefact of this project; however, in true OBJECT:PRAHA fashion, we explore the significance of the project in the larger context that is Žižkov and the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto. Momentument, too, existing as just a moment in the temporal universe of the Eternal Žižkov.
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Written & Directed by Tyko Say
Produced by OBJECT:PARADISE
Executive Producers: Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
Edited by Victor Tomsa
Camera by Václav Šulc & Tyko Say
Sound by Nikodem Dybiński
Warm Braník to play at Tyko Say & Jaromír Lelek’s Pigeons at Breakfast Book Launch Event
Tyko Say & Jaromír Lelek of OBJECT:PARDISE will be releasing a collaborative book titled Pigeons at Breakfast on May 9th, 2025 at Žižkovšiška. The book launch will be accompanied by the OBJECT:PARADISE side project, Warm Braník.
Expect bad poetry & bad music by bad actors.
📍ŽIžkovšiška, May 9th
Schedule:
20:30 - 21:00 : Introduction + Author Readings
21:00 - 22:00 : Service Elevator
22:00 - 22:45 : Author readings
22:45 - 23:15 : Warm Braník
OBJECT:PARADISE to give guest lecture at FAMU
Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska from OBJECT:PARADISE will discuss community-based approaches towards curation and production, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of localism, funding, and curation in Prague’s expat underground.
📍FAMU, Smetanovo Nabrezi 2, projection room on 1st floor
︎ May 7th, 7pm
︎ FREE
KROTCH Mag Presented at Eternia Spring Zine Festival
A celebration of independent zines, magazines, books, small publishers and many other alternative industries and a full-fledged accompanying program.
The festival of self-published literature will take place on the grounds of Eternia in Smíchov and this year also in the basement of Eternia, i.e. Subzero.
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26. 4. 2025; 12-20h
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Eternia in Smíchov (Nádražní 3, Prague)
The festival has been independent from the very beginning, just like the zines it is primarily about.
Expect zines & works from:
Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures, Tereza Bonaventurová – The Greatest Performer in Bohemia, Desetdeka decadence, Tomáš Staněk, Mazinerie, Telepatie zine, Věra Koss, KROTCH (collective OBJECT:PARADISE), Will helm Grasslich + Radek Buldra, Nakladatelství Centrála, Minoritydistro, Reading from a suitcase, Terézia Lomnická, Paulína Pokryvková, Lenka Štefanková, Motherfucifer, Blud (Lóže svaté Voršila), Útok z ľámy, Destruktorrr, Hardcore loves all color records, Efeméra, FŮD, Dark Press, Diana Shesha, Creative Group of the CHAo su Community – CHXOS, PaperCanDance, Femzin, Devon Maloy, Eva Ondová (Kratasy_komiksy, Jan Macků, No fun x Dýpt, Hřmot, Ema Chamulová, Animánie, Xao books, Kudlawerkstatt, Knedlo Zelo Wear, Mirella Birella, Opal Age, Reform, Ester Tajrychová, Konrad Trzeszczkowski (KTRSC books), Jan Vaněk, Jakupája zine rodeo, Artur Klements, Anti zine (Madmusic), AFED, Ema Mihálová…and others
MOMENTUMENT Event 3 : VERNÍDERNÍ
This Saturday, 22.03.25, we are closing off our MOMENTUMENT project with a real KICK -- ft. readings + sound + performance + installation.
JOIN US FOR THIS ONE TIME HAPPENING (A VERNÍSÁŽ & DERNÍSÁŽ ALL-IN-ONE).
︎𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀︎
- FREE.
- This event is part of the Žižkovská Noc Festival.
- 19:30-21:30 @ The Místečko Art Space (Rokycanova 153/41, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov).
- Drinks buyable and drinkable at the space.
MOMENTUMENT Event 2 : FINDERS KEEPERS
FRI-SAT (March 14-15) : MOMENTUMENT : Finders Keepers.
Join us from 18:30 at Místečko this Friday and/or Saturday for the second event of our Momentument project!
Join us with your subjectivity, your perspective, and find meaning in the crazy. Bring an empty picture frame and place it where it matters (to you). Define the after, the aprés-garde.
What’s worth seeing? What disappears? You decide what's worth looking at.
Bring your own picture frame. Hang it. And show us what you see.
︎𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀︎
- FREE.
- FRI-SAT (14-15.03.25); 18:30-21:30 @ The Místečko Art Space (Rokycanova 153/41, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov).
- Bring an empty picture frame! The weirder the better! Frame your perspective in the space! You will get to take home your perspective at the end of the project.
- Drinks buyable and drinkable at the space.
KROTCH MAG. Issue 19 Out Now!
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KROTCH Zine Issue 19 was released on March 02, 2025 with 16-pages of anonymous, discount, community-based-waste-matter.
K19 was composed in an upstairs bedroom adjacent a bathroom with the door handle ripped off. KROCH RAG was birthed from wet stepped-in socks on carpet and a busted typewriter. No regrats.
We're happy to feature in Issue 19 (un)solicited texts from:
Tylko Soy
Jerry Walnut
Shank Swonk
Stefan Fiedler
Michael J Rowland
Celine Jafarova
Rory Hinchey
Mariya shatova
THANKS GUYS.
FOLD THIS DISCOUNT HAND-ME-DOWN-IN (your pocket) and walk thru town, leanin' up 'gainst walls and shit with yr new wig. We dare ya.
KROTCH Mag is available exclusively in print and is available only at select locations: The Globe Bookstore, Žižkovšiška, and Místečko. Keep PRAHA HAHA.
Buy it, fold it, sold it.
Get yrslf in a K-HOLE and pick up the latest kopy of Rozkrok from your local dealer and/or The Globe Bookstore, Žižkovšiška, and Místečko Gallery.
Each issue is 50kč and can be used for multiple purposes (rug, toilet paper, beer coaster, hat, etc. et. al.) Want to supply KROTCH at your establishment? Call the ministry of culture.
Momentument Event Launch
Join us in a Žižkov experiment in creation, curation, and the space in between.
OBJECT:PARADISE presents…MOMENTUMENT: a community-driven exhibition—a project that starts in fragments and ends in fragments. Each piece found, claimed, and framed. A collision of material, perspective, and Žižkov delinquency.
Join us for a three-part project in an experiment of creation, curation, and the space in-between at the Místečko art space.
This is not a finished exhibition. It will be what it becomes. Join one event, join all, join in whatever way you like–even for just a momentument.
March 8 - party w/ tools
March 14 - party w/ frames
March 22 - party w/ language + sound + action
All events will be happening at the Místečko Art Space in Žižkov.
Facebook project link ︎
Read about the program below
March 8th: The Crazy Room
Before creation, there is material. Before meaning, there is presence.
Join us with your subjectivity, tools of expression, and make full the emptiness. Dress the blank with us. Express with us & get down with us in the Crazy Room. A space for unfiltered expression—no themes, no assignments, no fixed ideas. Just material, movement, and moment against the blank canvas.
Bring your paints, your pants, your plants, your tools, your texts, your trash, your crayons—whatever it takes to express yourself in the momentument.
No credentials. No outcome. Just process.
!!! 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 !!!
- FREE.
- 18:00 - 22:00 @ The Místečko Art Space (Rokycanova 153/41, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov).
- We have a 9m² canvas that we needs dressing--bring your paints & brushes & poems & receipts & anything you need.
- Drinks buyable and drinkable at the space.
March 14th: Finders Keepers
Join us with your subjectivity, your perspective, and find meaning in the crazy. Bring an empty picture frame and place it where it matters (to you). Define the after, the aprés-garde. What’s worth seeing? What disappears? What shifts when you look again?
This is not just curation. This is an act of attention. What we frame, what we ignore, what we let stand.
Curation is part of the process. You’re not just looking. You’re deciding what’s worth looking at.
But srsly – bring your own picture frame. Hang it. And show us what you see.
!!! 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 !!!
- FREE.
- 18:00 - 22:00 @ The Místečko Art Space (Rokycanova 153/41, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov).
- Bring an empty picture frame! The weirder the better! Frame your perspective in the space! You will get to take home your perspective at the end of the project.
- Drinks buyable and drinkable at the space.
March 22nd: Vernisage
Join us Saturday 22nd for the vernisáž of crazy room, now framed, hanged, and displayed.
LIVE MUSIC
LIVE READINGS
LIVE PERFORMANCE
HAP HAP HAP HAPPENING !
Come see what we made. Or what was already here, waiting to be seen.
!!! 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 !!!
- FREE.
This vernisage is part of the Žižkovská Noc Festival.
- 19:30-21:30 @ The Místečko Art Space (Rokycanova 153/41, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov).
- Drinks buyable and drinkable at the space.
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MOMENTNUMENT is an OBJECT:PARADISE production in partnership with Místečko Art Space and Žižkovská Noc.
KROTCH MAG. Issue 18 Out Now!
KROTCH Zine Issue 18 was released on January 12, 2025 with 16-pages of anonymous, discount, community-based-waste-matter.
The January issue includes 16 pages of Žižkov delinquency, covering topics of bathrooms, date spots, concept stores for Dogs, and other juicy details native to the Independent Republic of Žižkov.
Thank you to this month's contributors::::
Cykle Say
Soon Pasłoon
Michael Rowland
Ug Janjic
Hana Slaninová
R.G. Vašíček
Rory Hinchey & Awwman Radio
Mariya shatova
Nassim Bouhoun
David Hilbert
and YOU & bc you read it and make it have meaning.
Get yrslf in a K-HOLE and pick up the latest kopy of Rozkrok from your local dealer and/or The Globe Bookstore, Žižkovšiška, and Místečko Gallery.
Each issue is 50kč and can be used for multiple purposes (rug, toilet paper, beer coaster, hat, etc. et. al.) Want to supply KROTCH at your establishment? Call the ministry of culture.
2024 - a year of zines, trains, cables, and resistance. Read about our year in review.
2024—our year of trains, zines, cables, and resistance—closes with hands softened & spirits sharpened. From the smoky haze of Košice to the backrooms of Krakow, the streets of Lviv to the gardens of Žižkov, we found ourselves tangled in the ecstasy of creation and defiance.
We’ll carry yr voices in our back pockets, your stories folded into our manifesto, and yr resilience tattooed on the insides of our eyelobes. 2025—come at us sideways. We’ll meet you at the potraviny to fly flags and make noise.
Read the full review of 2024 here ︎
KROTCH Mag @ Prague International Bookfair
Come grab the latest kopy of KROTCH Magazine or pick up any back issues you’re missing in your library. Alongside KROTCH, you can find other books & texts from Prague-based writers such as...
Asgeir Ingolfsson (Iceland)
Chris Crawford (Scotland)
Danielle Alyssa Bodnar (US)
Equus Press (Paris, London & Prague)
Guillaume Tenaud (French)
Jared Marcel Pollen (Canada)
Jaromir Typlt (Czech)
Klez Brandar (French)
L.J. Night (Jordanian/Slovak)
Marko Thull (French)
Michael Rowland (UK)
Poezie, vole (Czech)
Phillip O'Neil (UK)
Rebecca Krajčová/Mariana Menezes (Czech/Brazil)
Somayeh Mckian (Iran)
Willie Watson (US)
ZETA: Rivista internazionale di Poesia e Ricerche (Italy)
When?
Sunday, Decemebr 1, 2024 15:30 - 22:00
Where? The Globe Bookstore (Nove Mesto, Prague)
Facebook event link︎
French Premiere: Existence is Resistance
OBJECT:PARADISE’s latest film Existence is Resistance will be screened at the Reours D’Ukraine festival in Perpignan, France on November 27th, 2024.
Facebook event link︎
Exposition de Barbara Le Béguec Friedman :
“J’ai rencontré l’Ukraine il y a 5 ans maintenant, Lviv plus particulièrement. Il y a des endroits qui vous paraissent familiers, où vous vous sentez étrangement bien, “à la maison”... ce fut le cas pour moi là bas. Ces 5 dernières années, je partage mon temps entre Perpignan, mes voyages et Lviv.
Le 24 février 2022, l’invasion à grande échelle du pays par la russie a plongé les ukrainiens dans une multitude de douleurs abyssales, les horreurs de la guerre n’épargnent personne, mais je peux aussi témoigner de la force de survie et de vie de mes amis là-bas.
Pour l’exposition Retours d’Ukraine je pose et partage quelques sensations et expériences ramenées dans mes valises...”
Projection :
Retours d’Ukraine est une exposition particulière, ne pouvant être détachée de son contexte. Le vernissage de l’exposition sera accompagné de la projection du film Existence is Resistence un documentaire expérimental tourné à Lviv, réalisé par Tyko Say (Tchéquie) et Sandra Pasławska (Pologne) qui examine le rôle de la culture comme forme de résistance.
Discussion avec Yaryna Shumska, artiste et curatrice ukrainienne qui vit et travaille à Lviv.
Engagée dans la diffusion de la culture ukrainienne en Ukraine et à travers le monde, elle sera présente en direct de Lviv pour témoigner de son expérience et échanger sur la vie culturelle et artistique dans le contexte actuel.
Pour contrer un sentiment de frustration ou d’impuissance, le récurrent “mais qu’est ce qu’on peut faire”, tous les bénéfices liés aux ventes d'œuvres et à la projection du film seront utilisés pour l’achat de matériel de création ou de survie au Département d’Art Contemporain de l'Académie Nationale des Arts de Lviv, par l’intermédiaire de Mykhaylo Barabash - artiste et enseignant.
KROTCH Mag Issue 17 out now!
KROTCH Magazine Emission 17 from the Prague-based performance & poetics collective OBJECT:PARADISE was brought into the world on November 23rd, 2024 and features 16-pages of anonymous waste matter. Best consumed all at once in a single sitting without thinking about it at all. Please do not read KROTCH Magazine only consume.
Pick up your very own copy of KROTCH at select locations around Prague for 50kč:
︎ The Globe Bookstore (Nove Mesto)
︎Žižkovšiška (Žižkov)
︎Mistečko Gallery (Žižkov)
Czech Premiere: Existence is Resistance [film]
Existence is Resistance is an experimental documentary that delves into the role of culture as a form of resistance in Ukraine during the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion. Directed by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska, the film highlights how culture, activism, and collective expression have become vital in preserving the momentum to resist amidst the destruction of war.
Filmed entirely in the historic city of Lviv, the documentary captures the stories of artists, curators, musicians, and activists who are using culture as a tool for resistance. From performance festivals to underground punk shows, Existence is Resistance explores the many ways that existence and resistance intertwine in times of crisis.
Read more about the project here ︎
Premiere date: October 26th, 2024, 20:00
Location: Kampus Hybernská, Prague Microfestival
PMF| KROTCH Mag Workshops
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Upcoming dates:
17.10.2024 (16:00-18:00) - 22.10.2024 (18:00-20:00)
Join us during the PMF Microlabs for a zine-making workshop led by Sandra Pasławska, co-editor of KROTCH magazine, focused on graphic design and collage production!
Where: Kampus Hybernská, sklep “E”
When: Oct 17 - 4-6PM, Oct 22 6-8 PM
How much: All Microlab events and Microfestival programme are for FREE!
Schedule:
- Practical workshops incorporating collaging and automatic writing
- Assembling a zine
We do not require:
special education
great ancestry
an extended portfolio
publications in vogue, vice, poetry foundation, flash art, or novinky,cz
a minimum age
recognizability
There are no requirements. Just come as you are, and we will have all the materials ready for you.
During the workshop, we will:
Write
Cut
Glue
Rip
Lick
Assemble
Decompose
Riot
Draw
Make a mess
and more
Remember,
you are a poet,
you are a zine maker
The zine created at the workshop will be displayed at Prague Microfestival.
Prague Microfestival
When? 14-27th October, 2024
Where? Kampus Hybernská, skelp “E”
What? See the full program here︎
OBJECT:PARADISE is proud to be exhibiting our catalogue of media at The Prague Microfestival (PMF) from October 14th-27th!
Drop by the Prague Microfestival at Kampus Hybernská in the downstairs space "E" for an immersive, multimedia experience of the O:P media landscape in an exhibition titled SAMIZDAT.
Featuring films, performances, interviews, discussions, collages, installations, concerts, drunk talk & “poetry” “readings, from over 100 members of the O:P community.
The curation is part of a 2-week program of events, workshops, talks, film screenings & performances, and will conclude with a three-day intensive program from the 25th-27th which focuses exclusively on the theme of Samizdat in today’s contemporary poetic.
Event link: PMF Microlab │ Opening Vernissage 'SAMIZDAT'︎
Gathering of the Clans Vol.2 : A Presentation of OBJECT:PARADISE
On September 22nd, 2024 we will discuss the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto with community members of Prague alongside other local collectives.
Join us for the event to learn more about O:P and about some of the other projects in our community.
+ BBQ
+ Open-mic
+ Music accompaniment
Start: 17:00
Location: Albertovské svahy, Prague
Facebook event link︎
OBJECT:PARADISE Showcase at the Scaffolding Palace Vol. 1
The very first edition of The Scaffolding Palace: a series of experimental exhibitions in scaffolding structures.
The exhibit will be showing the works of artists from The Outsiders: an exhibition curated by Jo Blin, which features O:P happenings and media.
Expect an array of documented of street performances, installations, urban interventions and other forms of art created for and/or displayed in the public space.
Where? Místečko Art Space
Vernissage: Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024 from 16:00.
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OBJECT:PRAHA III (The Manifesto) Film Screening
On August 29th, OBJECT:PRAHA III (The Manifesto) will be screened at Inverse Festival in Ostrava, Czechia.
The film screening will be accompanied by a pannel discussion on OBJECT:PARADISE and live reading by Tyko Say.
︎ Kulturní centrum Provoz
︎Film: 20:00 - 20:30; Discussion + reading: 20:30 - 21:00
KROTCH MAG. Issue 16 Out Now!
KROTCH Zine Issue 16 was released on Aug 03, 2024 with 16-pages of anonymous, discount, community-based works.
The zine is a project from the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto which calls for a locally-sourced poetics, native to the moment that it’s experienced.
Featured in this issue are::::
Michael Day
Tranka Saslawskool
Jordan Učitel
Hunter Andrews
Physical copies of this zine are available only at select locations in Prague—Žižkovšiška, The Globe Bookstore, and Místečko Gallery. Pick up your copy when you’re in town for 50kč.
OBJECT:PARODY Episode 2 : Žižkov Delinquents and the Jazz Police
Episode 2 of OBJECT:PARODY, the live O:P Radioshow, will be streaming from 18:00-19:00, 28.07.2024 (CET) over at www.shella.radio
OR join us for the live taping at Planeta Za, Ankali.
OBJECT:VAULT : The art of Improv with Keyvan Paydar
Last month we sat down with Keyvan Paydar, an artist in residency at Prague's Meet Factory as part of the latest episode of OBJECT:VAULT. Paydar is an artist interested in multi-media and interdisciplinary approaches towards art, and he is also a curator of the annual Grazer Impro Fest which our very own Sandra Pasławska talked with him about.
See the interview here:
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Thought & Beat // Album & Documentary Release
January 28, 2022 @ Kampus Hybernská (Prague, Czech Republic)Thought & Beat was the album and documentary release party for our two big projects over 2021: OBJECT:PARADISE Volume II and OBJECT:PRAHA II.
︎Listen to the album here︎
︎See the mocumentary here︎
Featuring over 30 musicians, readers, and action performers, the event was not only a celebration of the projects but a happening on its own that helped signify the party that each respective project tried to capture. That is, the party that language is.
Our previous attempts to name this event:
12-inch poetics / Žižkov Noise / Noise of Paradise / Green Eggs and Tram Man / Vinyl Event / Event on Vinyl / Pressed Poetics / Pressed Tits / Phonographed Nutts / Ass Analogue / Anal Vlog / OBJECT: 12-inch / 12-inch Release / Release / Released / Re-lease / Rihanna Leave / The OBJECT:PARADISE Experience (crossed out three times) / 7-piece release / OBJECT:PROJECT / Dethroned Poet / Demoted Coat / Deepstate Throat / Album and Documentary Release Event Party Celebration (2022, Sub. [ENG]) / Sound Happening / Anti Poetry / Language Gathering / Thought & Beat /
︎ Photos by Eduard Germis
▽Readers▽
Adéla Hrdličková
Tyko Say
Yeva Kupchenko
Saksham Sharda
Jaromír Lelek
Sandra Pasławska
Ásgeir H Ingolfsson
Adéla Hrdličková
Tyko Say
Yeva Kupchenko
Saksham Sharda
Jaromír Lelek
Sandra Pasławska
Ásgeir H Ingolfsson
▽Musicians▽
Luan Goncalves
Pedram Purghasem
Domin Universo
Martin Levallois
Jan Janicek
Maarten Crefcoeur
Martin Guildenstern
Mikulas Mrva
Mohammad Ebrahimian
Petr Balhar
Martin Debřička
Honza Michálek
Yonatan Omer
Sandra Pasławska
Roksan Mandel
Luan Goncalves
Pedram Purghasem
Domin Universo
Martin Levallois
Jan Janicek
Maarten Crefcoeur
Martin Guildenstern
Mikulas Mrva
Mohammad Ebrahimian
Petr Balhar
Martin Debřička
Honza Michálek
Yonatan Omer
Sandra Pasławska
Roksan Mandel
▽Action artists▽
Sasha Rose
Jo Blin
Anastacya Cya,
Alibek Kazbekov
Kalu Bruyere
Sasha Rose
Jo Blin
Anastacya Cya,
Alibek Kazbekov
Kalu Bruyere
▽Installations by▽
Martyna Konieczny
Mary Palencar
Tyko Say
Martyna Konieczny
Mary Palencar
Tyko Say
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Past Events : Anti-Climax
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Anti-Climax
April 24th 2015 @ Art Brut Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Anti-Climax was a project that occurred on April 24th, 2024 at the Art Brut Praha gallery (Prague, Czechia).
The purpose of the project was to question what a film can be by premiering a film while it is being filmed.
Attendees of the event were instructed to sign their names on an attendance list prior to being seated in the gallery before a projection screen. The audience members were given the following instructions in both Czech and English,
"Welcome to an evening special, titled Anti-Climax by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska. For the next 30-45 minutes, you will watch the one-time premiere of a film. Its characters, setting, plot, conflict, and development will be entirely created by you. There is a pen and paper under your chair—we ask you to write what you see in the film.
After the premiere, the stories will be collected for future screenings of the film alongside your interpretations.
We thank you for your subjective experience. Out of respect for the performers, we ask you to stay seated in the gallery so that you may collectively observe the same happening."
Once the instructions were given, this video and its accompanying audio filled the dark room. Outside, down the street, Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska--along with a 100m video cable--improvised with the surroundings. No plan was made. No communication was made. No themes were established before the filming began.
See the film below
Anti-climax | A Premiere of a Film Being Filmed
Runtime: 27m26s
Format: VHS (PAL, SD)
Directed by: Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
Music by: Nikodem Dybinsky
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OBJECT:SHOWCASE
July - October 2022 (Prague, Czech Republic)OBJECT:SHOWCASE was our summer series where we hosted two performance artists, Adam Ritzke (PL), and Viviana Druga (ROU) to perform a live action under the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.
July 13, 2022 with Adam Ritzke (PL)
One of the most extreme actions enacted from the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto happened on July 23, 2022 at Přístav with action artist Adam Ritzke as part of our OBJECT:SHOWCASE series.
Adam stood naked atop a mound ducked under the canopy of Přístav trees and pierced his body with 50 surgical needles. Each needle was secured to a red string that was then attached to a large tree adjacent from him.
A group of fifteen or so people gathered to witness the performance. And although it began to rain shortly after Adam began piercing every part of his body, the public crowd watched in awe. Before Adam's makeshift stage, the action was screened live on a small TV as it was being filmed.
Once each of the fifty needles were pierced through Adam's body, a smile unfolded across his lips and he gently began to sway the distant tree, with the red string, with the fifty needles, with his naked and contorted body.
The day before the performance, we interviewed him for an episode of OBJECT:VAULT. The interview was strangely calm and warm, juxtaposing greatly with what we would witness the next day.
Materials Used:
1 naked body
50 chirurgical needles
8 mounds of coal
1 small bush
1 medium bush
1 low hanging tree
9 separate species of wildflower
1 projection
1 happening
October 1, 2022 with Vivana Druga (ROU)
Corona stripped off the masks of the world, taking a bit of flesh with the mask in the ripping process. It also put a lot of people into survival modus which is activating the more primitive part of the brain which was maybe more latent during the last decade. Some developed more compassionate skills, others quite the opposite. We are in a process of purging all out what is not working and it very often feels like we don’t get nothing back to fill us again. This is because the emptiness needs to be felt before anything new can be consolidated. The performative ritual is an invitation to let it all out. To learn to purge.
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Momentument
(March 2025; Prague, Czech Republic)Momentument was a three-week, project that occured in March 2025 which aimed to explore the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto in three seperate events: creation, curation, and exhibition.
A film of the project will premiere in Berlin on June 14th 2025 at the Urban Spree Gallery.
A film of the project will premiere in Berlin on June 14th 2025 at the Urban Spree Gallery.
The Events
For the first event of the project, community members were invited to dress two large blank canvases with whatever tools and modes of expression they had access to. By the end of the evening, the two canvases were covered in paint, text, Nutella, glass, money, prescription medicine, and other mixed-media to reveal a holistic piece of community motif and moment.
For the second event, people brought empty picture frames and placed them on the canvases in areas that they thought should be seen. By the end of the evening, 26 picture frames were nailed to the canvases, each frame with their own subjective perspective.
For the final event, we exhibited these unique perspectives and removed the excess canvases. And, by the end of the night, the frames on the walls slowly began to disappear as each of the community members took back their perspective, leaving the project with their own memory of the whole. The 26 framed pieces, now separated from the collective canvas, exist not alone, but differently in their new spaces—as we do, as we will, until we meet again, newly, in the momentument.
The Film
OBJECT:PRAHA V : Momentument is part of the annual OBJECT:PRAHA film series which aims to explore applications of the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto. Cetered around the Momentument curation, the film explores the question...
If you could paint a state of mind...Would anyone else understand? And would that be art? Or would it just be a moment?
Credits
Written & Directed by
Tyko Say
Produced by Tyko Say
OBJECT:PARADISE
Executive Producers
Tyko Say
Sandra Pasławska
Edited by
Victor Tomsa
Camera by
Tyko Say
Václav Šulc
Sound Mixing by
Nikodem Dybiński
ADDITIONAL CAMERA OPERATORS
Sandra Pasławska
Uglješa Janjić
VIDEO MIXING
Sandra Pasławska
GALLERY MANAGER
Nic McDonald
INTERVIEWEES
Gordon Stone
Sasha Honigman
James Tickner
Agnar Danielsson
Mariya Shatova
Viktor Švolík
Michael Rowland
Hana Slaninová
Uglješa Janjić
Frieda Schimmel
Matěj Fibigr
Guy in Bathroom
PARTICIPANTS
Keelan Kechane
Elkin Kutluer
Salomé Tissot
Eve Miller
Leńa Simon
Ariel Lanchman
Jaromír Lelek
Cody Perk
Jan Černý
Philip O’Niel
Philip Ester
Daniel Gurin
Federico Pirredda
David Stiny
Michele Cappelli
Markéta Kobrová
Ella Wegerová
Sára Wegerová
Celine Mammatova
Jo Blin
Tim Postovit
Jan Tomeš
Martin Koloušek
Anna Pulkrabová
Honza Luhan
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY
Nikodem Dybiński
MUSIC
"Republic of Žižkov"
Written & Performed by Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska of David’s Sister
"Lipanská"
Written & Performed by Michal Wróblewski, Jan Chalupa, Miloš Klápště, Štěpán Janoušek, Roksan Mandel, Sandra Pasławska. Recorded by Tomáš Jochmann & Baracca Records
"Gay Moshpit"
Written & Performed by Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska of David’s Sister
"Woman with a Mustache"
Written & Performed by Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska of David’s Sister
LIVE MUSIC PERFORMED BY
Roksan Mandel & Juliano Alfredo
Recorded on location at Momentument Gallery Opening, 22.03.2025
Roksan Mandel’s Improv Workshop Group Show Recorded on location at Žižkovšiška, 26.04.2024
Siřem
Recorded on The Grid Center, 25.03.2022
Performances at Grůvíček Jazz Jam
Recorded on location at The Grid Center, 29.03.2024
SPECIAL THANKS
Jaromír Lelek
Jeff Milton
Robert Carrithers
Louis Armand
David Vichnar
Rory Hinchey
Ben Rae
Joe Feinberg
Daniel Morgan
Hunter Andrews
Marko Thull
Gabi Nechifor
Katya Murat
Rodrick Mitchell
Danielle Bodnar
Allegra Stodolsky
Steevie Powers
Slajmr Slajm
Marek Dočekal
Gregory Malyukov
IN MEMORY OF
Ásgeir H. Ingólfsson
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Mîstečko Gallery
Žižkovšiška
Art Reuse
Žižkovská noc
The Prague Literary Calendar
SHOT ON LOCATION IN
Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic
© 2025 OBJECT:PARADISE, z.s.
Additional Media
Live video mix of the Momentument vernisage
Video mix by Sandra Pasławska
Video edited by Tyko Say
Camera by Sandra Pasławska & Tyko Say
Sax by Juliano Alfredo
Synth by Roksan Mandel
Readings by Jaromír Lelek, Honza Lohan, Jo Blin, Tim Postovít, Anna
Pulkrabová
Thumbnail photo by Louis Armand︎ Press Links
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Excuse me, Žižkov
June 12th 2021 @ Albert Grocery store, Olšanské náměstí︎ Photos by Eduard Germis, Hunter Andrews, and Jan Černy.
The title of the event, Excuse me, Žižkov, was selected to show our gratitude and respect to the Prague cultural scene as we would step back into it, parting our ways passed months of isolation and back into the public sphere.
The happening was carried out in multiple languages and modes of expression; local musicians, performers, writers, and audience members gathered to create a spontaneous language, sound, and action happening which not only caught the attention of residents & attendees but eventually the police, too.
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Excuse me, Žižkov was our sixth OBJECT:PARADISE happening and our first event of 2021 due to Coronavirus restrictions. The performance was composed of both Czech & International residents and students, unified by the common goal to bring life back to the streets through the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.
Originally planned to be held at the iconic—or infamous—Žižkov steps below the Lipanská tram stop (Rokycanova & Chelčického), 30 minutes before the start of the event, we were met with a torrential rainfall coming north from Vinohrady.
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Lenka Bodnorová scurried down the stairs under the slaughter of rain with found furniture, an oblong table for example, and other obtuse kitchen items that she had planned to haul up and down the stairs and around audience members during the event—which was now threatened to be canceled.
At the bottom of the stairs, Mary Palencar began slashing paint across a white bed sheet and mixed it in with the rain, shouting through the downpour that the water “will just thin out the acrylic, maybe it will look better mushed into the cotton”. Sandra Pasławska ran to her, protecting her with an umbrella that would be nearly ripped away into the wind and blown deep into Žižkov.
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While convening with the cast, production, and collective members, the decision was made to relocate the event to an underpass beside the Albert supermarket located at Olšanské Náměstí.
In a group composed of participants—audience members and performers—we collectively grabbed the equipment and took refuge in the covering near an overarching advertisement for steak and asparagus.
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The rain continued to come down and made hollow echoes throughout the underpass. We were met with a crowd of community members that were both deliberately and spontaneously waiting to see what would happen next. What were all these people here for—standing before an enlarged asparagus?
“Should we go back to the stairs now that things are clearing up”, one of us asked, but we had already moved the furniture, carried the beer crates, and lost our umbrellas.
Zoe Perrenoud, Roksan Mandel, Anna Kurkova , and Martin Guildenstern composed a quartet of string, horn, woodwind, and percussion that assisted the now slow trickle of rain in a backdrop soundscape.
After a few minutes, participants began to look around to see who would take the urban stage.
Two mimes, Barbora Nechanická and Simona Rozložníková, emerged to the center of two columns supporting the underpass and began communicating a silent violence and romance between themselves while Jaromír Lelek hammered away on a typewriter and drank Braník with his remaining limbs.
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The first reader, Tyko Say, followed the mime performance by pouring the remnants of a bottle of Braník on a copy of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, to which he then drank the sap from the slopping pages and threw the text on the ground.
He continued his performance with a piece titled “Excuse me, Žižkov” where he pranced around half slouched and exposing a rip in his jeans at the knee exclaiming, “Žižkov is happening I again, I know because I’m stepping in it. The dog knows when it happened!”
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Yeva Kupchenko followed in a subtle voice, detailing accounts of the soft undertones and rough edges of Husinecká (at night coming back from downtown). The quartet played through as the mimes began panhandling for tips and beer money.
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Nearly halfway through Yeva’s performance, Sasha Rose began bargaining from transparent coat pockets with audience members, selling from her jacket various items, for example, a condom and a folded up 1970’s porno picture & a roll of receipt paper (for spontaneous transactions), raw materials (a piece of metal and a piece of wood), and non-raw materials (6 small handmade painted prints and a picture frame). Sasha’s street sales would last the duration of the event and long into the night that followed.
*If you are interested in hiring a professional trenchcoat saleswoman to make an appearance at your next party or event, you can contact Sasha here.
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Audience members soon found themselves wondering who was part of the performance and who accidentally came here. A slow murmur filled with laughs, gasps, stand-up bass, clarinet, and rain trickle. What would happen next? Why is that woman carrying a table with a dying monstera atop?
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Honza Dibitanzl entered the conversation by listening to audience members, circling the space in red eyeliner asking for words to spark a conversation. The quartet, directed by Roksan Mandel, comes in smooth with a steady beat that Honza glides his feet to.
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He bends down, he stands close, he looks a man in the eyes for too long, and then drinks his beer. Suddenly a dog barks, and he barks back. The crowd laughs and Lenka begins stacking furniture like ill-fitted legos. The two circle the installation and lock eyes under a chair, their bodies stretched in the center of the space.
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Thor Garcia postures himself before the microphone, sporting camouflage gloves, a fedora, and protective safety glasses. It’s raining and he’s wearing board shorts. He begins his act by repeating that the audience is a fence sitter, “raise your hand if you’re a fence sitter—you’re all fence sitters I know it!” and continued propagating the politics of the individual and the community while the crowd swayed before the asparagus.
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Appearing from the crowd, a fight emerges between two men with similar haircuts, dark and curly. Saksham Sharda and Sylvain Benzakein. They begin shoving each other in the middle of the space before the audience and Thor. The orchestra persists in sound and image, in energy and static.
“Looks like we have a couple of fence sitters here! Who else is a fence sitter?” Thor responds.
The couple slows down for a minute, glances towards the crowd, and begins kissing with tongue in cheek.
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Everyone at the happening is talking, is bopping, is stopping to see what will happen next. Michael Rowland takes the mic and recounts his Žižkov devotion. He stands tall in front of the OBJECT:PARADISE banner and talks of sidewalks while standing still.
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Halfway in, a suited man walks and blocks the view, the space between audience and performer. The space between producer and receiver. He’s talking loudly, abruptly, “did you cc me on that? Who’s the new intern? Who told you that?”
Aaron Barnnett, the suit walker, continues to circle the space for the next twenty minutes, entering in and out of the stage, the performance, and becomes part of the text itself, coexisting as audience and performer.
“So that guy in the suit yelling on the phone is really part of all of this?” The disruption becomes part of the rhythm.
Tyko Say sits cross-legged at a mustard yellow typewriter in the center of the venue which sits on Lenka’s found furniture. He listens and rewrites the stanzas to Michael’s piece as he hears them.
“Žižkov...Žižkov...Žižkov...“
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At stage left, Sára Drahoňovská begins sanitizing a table and needles in white latex gloves while Hunter Andrews sits with a pant leg rolled up above his knee.
Tyko Say stands behind the two and watch the heads of the audience suddenly start to turn all in one direction. Two policemen in bulletproof vests and FFP2 masks enter the stage, just behind Sára and Hunter.
Hunter begins his piece, “Oh Žizkov! Your streets are filling up with girls in flower dresses again!” The chaos ensues.
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The audience watches intently, hands on cheeks, elbows on knees as the police scan the space for someone in charge. We’re all in charge. Roksan motions to the quartet to keep playing, to keep strumming, to keep blowing, to keep in charge, to keep the beat, to be the beat that the ship slowly sinks to.
“Is this part of the performance? Was that fight staged? Where’s the guy on the phone? Why are they still reading? Playing? Drinking?”
Jaromír Lelek approaches the two officers and greets them in Žižkov Česky. They reply, “someone called. Show us your papers, your permits, your credentials”.
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Hunter projects his stanzas into the crowd as Sára jabs a needle in his thigh and begins to craft a giant “Ž” for Žižkov.
“Your hospodas are filling up again! Žižkov!”
Tyko and Jaromír entertain the police with filed notices, explanations, smiles, and raised eyebrows.
“We don’t have anything, we filed a public notice for the stair set. Not the grocery store.”
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“But please explain what’s happening here—what is this?” the police persist.
The audience comes in closer, enclosing the space between the two columns and crossing any boundary that is left between the audience and performer. Would the ship sink? Was the iceberg really that deep?
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Three more officers arrive—one with a blue shirt with checkered reflective squares on it.
“What’s going on here?”
“They’re having a poetry reading” one of the officers replied, seemingly shy to admit that they have to shut the happening down.
Collective members, Jaromír Lelek, Roksan Mandel, Tyko Say, and Sandra Pasławska deliberate on what to do next: back to the stairs? Shut it down? Anarchy? What about the third act?
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The show will go on. Tyko took the mic and elaborated the situation to the participants of the moment, “no more music or microphone, but keep your beer and see what happens next.”
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Sandra Pasławska and Mary Palencar begin laying out the large white sheet in the grass adjacent to our once-urban stage.
Sandra starts off a new text in a singing ode with a direct call to action to the audience, participants, police, and herself: to become Žizkov.
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Sandra gets on her knees and Mary covers her head, face, and dress in paint and starts to use her as a brush against the bed sheet. The police watch on intently, making sure to keep Jaromír in proximity.
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After some silence, participants of the moment begin to come forward towards mary’s brush, allowing their bodies to become painted in a shared coat of Žižkov. Mary holds the hands of those who dare to come up and, she greets them with a shared giggle.
Everyone knew what it was all about, and for that moment it felt like real communication was happening.
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The happening was carried out in multiple languages and modes of expression; local musicians, performers, writers, and audience members gathered to create a spontaneous language, sound, and action happening which not only caught the attention of residents & attendees but eventually the police, too.
Excuse me, Žižkov was our sixth OBJECT:PARADISE happening and our first event of 2021 due to Coronavirus restrictions. The performance was composed of both Czech & International residents and students, unified by the common goal to bring life back to the streets through the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.
Originally planned to be held at the iconic—or infamous—Žižkov steps below the Lipanská tram stop (Rokycanova & Chelčického), 30 minutes before the start of the event, we were met with a torrential rainfall coming north from Vinohrady.
Lenka Bodnorová scurried down the stairs under the slaughter of rain with found furniture, an oblong table for example, and other obtuse kitchen items that she had planned to haul up and down the stairs and around audience members during the event—which was now threatened to be canceled.
At the bottom of the stairs, Mary Palencar began slashing paint across a white bed sheet and mixed it in with the rain, shouting through the downpour that the water “will just thin out the acrylic, maybe it will look better mushed into the cotton”. Sandra Pasławska ran to her, protecting her with an umbrella that would be nearly ripped away into the wind and blown deep into Žižkov.
While convening with the cast, production, and collective members, the decision was made to relocate the event to an underpass beside the Albert supermarket located at Olšanské Náměstí.
In a group composed of participants—audience members and performers—we collectively grabbed the equipment and took refuge in the covering near an overarching advertisement for steak and asparagus.
The rain continued to come down and made hollow echoes throughout the underpass. We were met with a crowd of community members that were both deliberately and spontaneously waiting to see what would happen next. What were all these people here for—standing before an enlarged asparagus?
“Should we go back to the stairs now that things are clearing up”, one of us asked, but we had already moved the furniture, carried the beer crates, and lost our umbrellas.
Zoe Perrenoud, Roksan Mandel, Anna Kurkova , and Martin Guildenstern composed a quartet of string, horn, woodwind, and percussion that assisted the now slow trickle of rain in a backdrop soundscape.
After a few minutes, participants began to look around to see who would take the urban stage.
Two mimes, Barbora Nechanická and Simona Rozložníková, emerged to the center of two columns supporting the underpass and began communicating a silent violence and romance between themselves while Jaromír Lelek hammered away on a typewriter and drank Braník with his remaining limbs.
The first reader, Tyko Say, followed the mime performance by pouring the remnants of a bottle of Braník on a copy of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, to which he then drank the sap from the slopping pages and threw the text on the ground.
He continued his performance with a piece titled “Excuse me, Žižkov” where he pranced around half slouched and exposing a rip in his jeans at the knee exclaiming, “Žižkov is happening I again, I know because I’m stepping in it. The dog knows when it happened!”
Yeva Kupchenko followed in a subtle voice, detailing accounts of the soft undertones and rough edges of Husinecká (at night coming back from downtown). The quartet played through as the mimes began panhandling for tips and beer money.
Nearly halfway through Yeva’s performance, Sasha Rose began bargaining from transparent coat pockets with audience members, selling from her jacket various items, for example, a condom and a folded up 1970’s porno picture & a roll of receipt paper (for spontaneous transactions), raw materials (a piece of metal and a piece of wood), and non-raw materials (6 small handmade painted prints and a picture frame). Sasha’s street sales would last the duration of the event and long into the night that followed.
*If you are interested in hiring a professional trenchcoat saleswoman to make an appearance at your next party or event, you can contact Sasha here.
Audience members soon found themselves wondering who was part of the performance and who accidentally came here. A slow murmur filled with laughs, gasps, stand-up bass, clarinet, and rain trickle. What would happen next? Why is that woman carrying a table with a dying monstera atop?
Honza Dibitanzl entered the conversation by listening to audience members, circling the space in red eyeliner asking for words to spark a conversation. The quartet, directed by Roksan Mandel, comes in smooth with a steady beat that Honza glides his feet to.
He bends down, he stands close, he looks a man in the eyes for too long, and then drinks his beer. Suddenly a dog barks, and he barks back. The crowd laughs and Lenka begins stacking furniture like ill-fitted legos. The two circle the installation and lock eyes under a chair, their bodies stretched in the center of the space.
Thor Garcia postures himself before the microphone, sporting camouflage gloves, a fedora, and protective safety glasses. It’s raining and he’s wearing board shorts. He begins his act by repeating that the audience is a fence sitter, “raise your hand if you’re a fence sitter—you’re all fence sitters I know it!” and continued propagating the politics of the individual and the community while the crowd swayed before the asparagus.
Appearing from the crowd, a fight emerges between two men with similar haircuts, dark and curly. Saksham Sharda and Sylvain Benzakein. They begin shoving each other in the middle of the space before the audience and Thor. The orchestra persists in sound and image, in energy and static.
“Looks like we have a couple of fence sitters here! Who else is a fence sitter?” Thor responds.
The couple slows down for a minute, glances towards the crowd, and begins kissing with tongue in cheek.
Everyone at the happening is talking, is bopping, is stopping to see what will happen next. Michael Rowland takes the mic and recounts his Žižkov devotion. He stands tall in front of the OBJECT:PARADISE banner and talks of sidewalks while standing still.
Halfway in, a suited man walks and blocks the view, the space between audience and performer. The space between producer and receiver. He’s talking loudly, abruptly, “did you cc me on that? Who’s the new intern? Who told you that?”
Aaron Barnnett, the suit walker, continues to circle the space for the next twenty minutes, entering in and out of the stage, the performance, and becomes part of the text itself, coexisting as audience and performer.
“So that guy in the suit yelling on the phone is really part of all of this?” The disruption becomes part of the rhythm.
Tyko Say sits cross-legged at a mustard yellow typewriter in the center of the venue which sits on Lenka’s found furniture. He listens and rewrites the stanzas to Michael’s piece as he hears them.
“Žižkov...Žižkov...Žižkov...“
At stage left, Sára Drahoňovská begins sanitizing a table and needles in white latex gloves while Hunter Andrews sits with a pant leg rolled up above his knee.
Tyko Say stands behind the two and watch the heads of the audience suddenly start to turn all in one direction. Two policemen in bulletproof vests and FFP2 masks enter the stage, just behind Sára and Hunter.
Hunter begins his piece, “Oh Žizkov! Your streets are filling up with girls in flower dresses again!” The chaos ensues.
The audience watches intently, hands on cheeks, elbows on knees as the police scan the space for someone in charge. We’re all in charge. Roksan motions to the quartet to keep playing, to keep strumming, to keep blowing, to keep in charge, to keep the beat, to be the beat that the ship slowly sinks to.
“Is this part of the performance? Was that fight staged? Where’s the guy on the phone? Why are they still reading? Playing? Drinking?”
Jaromír Lelek approaches the two officers and greets them in Žižkov Česky. They reply, “someone called. Show us your papers, your permits, your credentials”.
Hunter projects his stanzas into the crowd as Sára jabs a needle in his thigh and begins to craft a giant “Ž” for Žižkov.
“Your hospodas are filling up again! Žižkov!”
Tyko and Jaromír entertain the police with filed notices, explanations, smiles, and raised eyebrows.
“We don’t have anything, we filed a public notice for the stair set. Not the grocery store.”
“But please explain what’s happening here—what is this?” the police persist.
The audience comes in closer, enclosing the space between the two columns and crossing any boundary that is left between the audience and performer. Would the ship sink? Was the iceberg really that deep?
Three more officers arrive—one with a blue shirt with checkered reflective squares on it.
“What’s going on here?”
“They’re having a poetry reading” one of the officers replied, seemingly shy to admit that they have to shut the happening down.
Collective members, Jaromír Lelek, Roksan Mandel, Tyko Say, and Sandra Pasławska deliberate on what to do next: back to the stairs? Shut it down? Anarchy? What about the third act?
The show will go on. Tyko took the mic and elaborated the situation to the participants of the moment, “no more music or microphone, but keep your beer and see what happens next.”
Sandra Pasławska and Mary Palencar begin laying out the large white sheet in the grass adjacent to our once-urban stage.
Sandra starts off a new text in a singing ode with a direct call to action to the audience, participants, police, and herself: to become Žizkov.
Sandra gets on her knees and Mary covers her head, face, and dress in paint and starts to use her as a brush against the bed sheet. The police watch on intently, making sure to keep Jaromír in proximity.
After some silence, participants of the moment begin to come forward towards mary’s brush, allowing their bodies to become painted in a shared coat of Žižkov. Mary holds the hands of those who dare to come up and, she greets them with a shared giggle.
Everyone knew what it was all about, and for that moment it felt like real communication was happening.
We want to give a big thank you to everyone who made this event possible: crew, production, readers, musicians, performers, and most of all, the audience members. Without you all we could not have had such an enriching language experience.
Readers
Tyko SayYeva Kupchenko
Honza Dibitanzl
Thor Garcia
Michael Rowland
Hunter Andrews
Sandra Pasławska
Performers
Barbora Nechanická,Simona Rozložníková
Mary Palencar
Aaron Barnett
Saksham Sharda
Sylvain Benzakein
Lenka Bodnorová
Sasha Rose
Jaromír Lelek
Sára Drahoňovská
Tyko Say
Musicians
Roksan MandelZoe Perrenoud
Anna Kurkova
Martin Guildenstern