ŚWIATŁODŹWIĘKI V4: International Audio-visual Art Exchange Lightsounds // Prague edition

Name: ŚWIATŁODŹWIĘKI V4: International Audio-visual Art Exchange Lightsounds // Prague edition
Start: 2024-10-25T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-26T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Krásova 27, 13000 Prague, Czech Republic

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sat Oct 26 2024 at 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Krásova 27, 13000 Prague, Czech Republic | Prague, PR

ŚWIATŁODŹWIĘKI V4 is the first of its kind cultural exchange of audiovisual art between Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. It aims to position and exhibit audiovisual art, that is art that fuses the musical and visual into one integral, aesthetic experience, from these three countries alongside one another.
Events will include workshops, presentations, lectures and concerts in Bratislava, Prague and Poznań, where the participants will take place in the ninth edition of Światłodźwięki. This first edition of ŚWIATŁODŹWIĘKI V4 is presented by Fundacja Wspierania Kultury Our ‘PL’ace Foundation (PL), Punctum (CZ) and A4 - združenie pre aktuálne umenie a kultúru (SK), with the vital support of the Visegrad Fund.
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°°Friday 25th°°
19:30-20:20 // concert A-V // Petr Vrba & Keya Singh
20:45-21:35 // concert A-V // Paweł Krupski, Jakub Królikowski & Cheslav Singh
°°Saturday 26th°°
12:15-13:00 // Talks // Paweł Krupski, Jakub Królikowski & Cheslav Singh
13:10-13:40 // Artist Talk // Petr Vrba
13:50-14:20 // Artist Talk // Keya Singh
14:30-15:00 // Artist Talk // Natálie Pleváková
15:10-16:40 // Artist Talk // Slávo Krekovič
16:50-17:20 // Artist Talk // Lenka Adamcová: Invisible Soul Narratives
17:30-18:00 // Artist Talk // Adela Mede
19:30-20:20 // concert A-V // Natálie Pleváková
20:45-21:35 // concert A-V // Slávo Krekovič, Natálie Pleváková, Adela Mede

°°Paweł Krupski°°
Audiovisual artist, graphic designer, and creative engineer. Co-founder of the Światłodźwięki festival. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Poznań with a degree in Graphic Design in 2012. For over 15 years, he has been working as a freelancer, mainly in the IT industry, tackling various graphic challenges, from visual identity to interface design. In recent years, he has focused more on development in the fields of technology and programming.
°°Jakub Królikowski°°
Jakub Królikowski is a musician and composer born in Poznan, Poland. He performs improvised music and futuristic jazz on piano and keyboards, exploring cyclicity and repetition through the mechanical, physical production of sound on the keyboards in “real time;” a practive which enriches organicity and indeterminism. He plays solo and with the polish alternative bands such as ‚Głupi Komputer’, ‘True Polish Techno’ and ‘Koń.’
He passionately looks for various relationships between music and other art disciplines, and hence is the co-founder and co-curator ‘ŚWIATŁODŹWIĘKI’ (LightSounds) festival in Poland. He received First Prize at a composition competition in Krakow under the patronage of Krzysztof Penderecki. He has recorded for Jon Dobie, Territorium KV, Polish Radio and TV, Opus Series label & more.
°°Cheslav Singh°°
Cheslav Singh is a Canadian pianist with international performance and pedagogical experience. He plays in many different contexts, playing everything from Beethoven to free jazz. He has been recognized as being able to ‘construct solid geometric sonorities, very well planned. His work is characterized as ’every performance is a genuine adventure into the unknown.
°°Keya Singh°°
Keya Singh (IND/CZ) is a Prague-based visual artist, specialising in video art, installation, and performance. Currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague, she explores themes of identity, popular culture, and reality through her work. Her artistic practice navigates audiovisual manipulation, converging cultural and personal elements to provoke emotional resonances. With humour and sensitivity, she invites viewers to contemplate their place in the evolving social landscape.
°°Lenka Adamcová°°
In 2021, Lenka Adamcová graduated from the Intermedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Between 2019 and 2020, she spent two semesters at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Rhine in Strassbourg, where she studied sound. In 2022, she took part in an internship at the Synth Library in Prague.
In 2020, she realized the sound performance La Chufferie at the Galerie de la HEAR in Strasbourg, or as part of the Sonic Protest Festival in Paris. In her artistic practice, she mainly deals with work with sound, but also with collaboration with other artists in the framework of various choreographic, performative and participatory projects.
°°Natálie Pleváková°°
Natálie Pleváková is a music composer and sound artist. She studied multimedia composition at JAMU in Brno and completed an internship at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, NL. At the Musicology department of Masaryk University, she graduated with a thesis mapping education in electronic music in Czechia. In her work, she explores the use of sonic narrative as a compositional strategy. She seeks ways to overcome the temporal determinacy of music and the fragmentary perception of music based on the listener’s experience, encouraging a shared discovery of new aesthetic categories in music and enhances listening sensitivity. She creates instruments, sound installations, composes music for theater, and is a sound designer for podcasts and AV works. She is the dramaturg of the Sanatorium Sonorum festival and residency program and is also involved in teaching sound arts.
°°Adela Mede°°
Adela Mede is a Slovak-Hungarian musician and singer whose works weave together elements of Central European folklore, contemporary vocal techniques, minimalistic compositional structures and experimental electronics. Her intimate, powerful songs sung in three languages explore the reality of a life stretched across borders. The voice is central to her practice; it’s dominant, center-stage, an expression of a universal language using which Mede describes a reality beyond our individual experiences.
°°Petr Vrba°°
His unrelenting explorations of non-idiomatic improvisation using trumpet, clarinets, synths, diy electronics, vibrating speakers etc., made him one of the most active experimental musicians in Prague these days.
www.vrrrba.cz
°°Slávo Krekovič°°
Musician and sound artist, musicologist, music and media art curator and cultural organizer based in Bratislava. Studied Musicology and Sonology, co-founder and Artistic Director of NEXT Festival of Advanced Music and A4 – Space of Contemporary Culture, an independent cultural centre in Bratislava. From 2013 to 2017, he was the Head of Multimedia study programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU) at Brno University of Technology. Performs with electronic and interactive musical instruments solo or in various collaborations (Voice Over Noise, Shibuya Motors, VRITTI, Bratislava Improvisers Orchestra, SWAG Ensemble). His artistic interests encompass generativity, complexity, human-machine interaction, gestural control and improvisation in different contexts using custom software and various hardware devices.
Find more about performers and festival on:
http://swiatlodzwieki.art/en/program/praha/