Light Art Festival will light up Trenčín for the first time. The “Rehearsal of Lights” awaits us!

The newly emerging LAF Light Art Festival is organizing its first event called The Trial of Lights, which will take place on 15 November 2024 at the Peace Square in Trencin. The dominant feature of the programme will be the lighting of an eight-metre high installation created by Czech light art artist Lukáš Dřevjany. The work will be the first of this size in Trenčín and will also be an interactive creation. This means that what will be displayed on the installation will be directly influenced by people’s movements.

The rehearsal of the lights will start on Friday, 15 November at 7.30 pm. The following days will offer the experience from 8am to 10pm, until Sunday 24 November. The event will be a taster of what the first edition of the LAF, which will take place from 11-13 April 2025, will subsequently bring on a larger scale.

Come and enjoy culture and creativity and experience Trenčín in a new light.

Are you interested in the light work Fragment, which is located on Peace Square? Come to a guided tour by its author, Czech digital artist Lukáš Dřevjaný. You will learn how the work works, get answers to your curious questions and find out more than you can fit on the information board.

Sunday 24.11.2024 at the Fragment installation

5:00 to 5:30 p.m.

from 18:00 to 18:30

You can visit the light work Fragment at Mierovo Square until 24 November. Then it will be replaced by the traditional Christmas tree.

About the work and its author

The light installation “Fragment” was designed by Czech artist Lukáš Dřevjaný alias oxoo, who uses screens, moving lights or lasers in his work. For him, light is a means to bring powerful experiences. It is the same in Trenčín. In addition to its monumental dimensions, the work also attracts attention with its interactive content. What is displayed on the installation will be directly influenced by people’s movements.

Lukáš Dřevjaný is a digital artist who combines abstract expressionism and contemporary technologies to create interactive audio-visual creations. His works tell a story of the tension between chaos and order, technology and humanity. Dřevjaný studied theatrical lighting and sound design at JAMU in Brno and at The Theatre Academy in Helsinki (Finland). More at www.oxoo.digital.

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The event is supported by the city of Trenčín. More information as well as a map of the works can be found at http://bienalebrezina.trakt.sk

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15:30 – 18:30 TRAKT: Happy audio – Interactive music workshop for children – playing on vegetables

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The activities of museums during the Night of Museums and Galleries are oriented towards activities that remain hidden from the public throughout the year. At that time, museums open their “hidden” chambers to the public and reveal secrets hidden from public view. In this way, the public can penetrate the secrets of the ‘museum kitchen’. ‘Unlocking the secrets’ also helps the public, through the knowledge and information thus gained, to better understand the importance of museums in preserving part of the cultural and natural heritage preserved in museums.

As part of the Night of Museums and Galleries event in Trencin, TRAKT will present a pair of art projects in the Atrium under the Tower and in the City Tower on 13 May.

CITY TOWER
9.00 – 23.00 LIGHT HARF | Interactive game full of light beams. Become a player and try what it is like to play on the lights.
With your movements and touches you create beautiful light curtains and melodies. This game immerses you in a world of light and music.

ATRIUM UNDER THE TOWER
21.00 – 23.00 LIGHT GRAFFITI | Do you want to become part of street art and leave your digital legacy? Put your light graffiti on the façade of the Atrium. Just press the spray nozzle and you can start creating huge works of art. What’s more, you don’t have to worry about damaging the history of the façade because it’s a digital projection.

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The main activities of the project are the research and decomposition of phenomena and themes that undermine trust. A collection of 5 large-format original paintings by artist Lukáš Matejka – portraits (160 x 100 cm) will be created. The portraits are based on real people – representatives of the church, finance, judiciary, police and medicine. An important skeleton of the emerging works is also the work with audio – interviews – monologues – the destruction of voices of trust/distrust. The author creates an acoustic collage with people who. who have lost or are losing trust. An equal part of the exhibited paintings will be this created sound environment (recordings, editing, post-processing). The viewer – visitor of the newly emerging FORMAAT Gallery in Trencin will thus find himself in a gallery with a complex authorial painting-acoustic collection Crisis of Trust, which will affect him visually and acoustically.

The aim and contribution of the project is to realize a visual reflection/authorial exhibition referring to the growing tendency of mistrust in society, which impacts directly or indirectly on each of us. The target audience of the exhibition is mainly the general public, students and the professional – artistic community.

Title of the exhibition: Lukáš Matejka – CRISIS OF TRUST

Opening date: 1 December 2022 at 19:00, Thursday

Duration of the exhibition: 1 December 2022 – 30 December 2022

Curator: Anton Šulík

Location: FOR MAAT GALLERY, Železničná 3, Trenčín

Supported by the Art Support Fund from public funds in the form of a scholarship.

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6.8.2022 (Saturday) Garage opening in the Park x Fest Art

Garage, an alternative space for culture, is moving to M.R. Štefánik Park. Come and experience the atmosphere of this place! First of all, the Fest Art group will take over the Garage and create a unique work of art with the musical accompaniment of DJs from the Face2bass crew and friends. Bands Random Choices and Charms’ detispolu with Matúš Oravec, JAAN and DJ Matwe will perform. Tamara Kramar is the main star of the opening night.

19.8.2022 (Friday) Divotvorba and concerts in Garage

Come and relax in the Garage on Friday. Divotvorba will feature author readings of both prose and poetry, with guest Shimpe Ondrus reading from his Dictionary of Alien Dreams. This will be followed by concerts by three artistic formations, each of which, though different, are united by their ability to mirror emotions and evoke dreamlike moods. Singer, musician and emerging composer Veronika Jarábková will stir our emotions with her unique vocals and piano. The instrumental Trenčín band Personal Spaces playing atmospheric post rock will christen their newly released EP Tiberghien.Video projection of their music will be accompanied by Analogrunner with Lara Aba Hamdan.

2.9.2022 (Friday) Rap in Garage

The rap evening in Garage will feature young names from the Trenčín rap scene, who will get a chance to promote their work. At the end of the show will be President Lourajder, a Slovak rapper and MC from Bratislava, one of the few representatives of the so-called alternative rap in our country. He will bring hip-hop hits with a classic sound and a reference to the 90s. He will also arrive with his prominent beatmaker Emil, with whom they will play a special set together with video projection. Electronic music producers DJ Goblin and Snowfake will round off this event. 

3.9.2022 (Saturday) PRIESTOR x Garage

Formaat – a project of Trenčín artists. Camera obscura Garage – transforming the Garage into a large working camera obscura, where the viewer can get acquainted with this old technology, where reality is projected onto the wall through a small hole in the wall. Art workshop – plein air contemporary art. Audiovisual workshop – the visitor can try interacting with contemporary audiovisual electronic technologies

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In addition to the stalls in which the vendors will offer their products, in front of the Gymnasium Ľ. Štúr, there will be theatres, playrooms for children, discussions for adults, various concerts, workshops and interactive art installations. One of them is the interactive work HAPPY AUDIO from the workshop of TRAKT.

The aim of the project is to enliven a public space other than the traditional Peace Square and to promote cultural and social events in the city.

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Come and see an extraordinary open-air show, full of spectacular light displays and breathtaking acrobatic feats. The story this year will take place in the city centre, in the spaces around the Army House. You can see the performance on 1 and 2 July at 9.30 pm. The start will be at the service – side entrance of the Army House.

The main role of Severo will be played by Dušan Tadlánek from the Normani fencing group, the role of Mark Valerius will be played by Štefan Richtárech, an actor from the Municipal Theatre of Trenčín. The acrobatic show will be performed by acrobats from Vertigo and professional slackliner Lukáš Černý. MusicaMusicantica from Mojmírovce near Nitra will take care of the period music, interesting lighting and projection visuals have been prepared by Trenčín Trakt, the Roman soldiers will be taken care of by the historical fencing group Wagus. The story of Severus was compiled and directed by Trenčín’s Vlado Kulíšek, again, as in the previous six stories. You can buy a small booklet with the story of the soldier Severus at the Cultural Information Centre on Mierovo Square or directly at the venue before the performance. For more information, visit facebook.com/kic.trencin

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