field research Archives - TRAKT

I. Bienale Brezina

akjetam — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:41:43 +0000

The first edition of the Biennial in the Brezina Forest Park will take place during the autumn from 13 October 2024. Connecting contemporary art with nature in the unique forest park environment of the city of Trenčín. The project is deliberately targeted at the casual viewer. The audience will experience a visual and sensory play through diverse land-art forms. The artists will create a unique site-specific experience for all visitors to Brezina, tourists and residents of Trenčín. The exhibition will take contemporary art out of the traditional gallery space and into the public environment – into nature, focusing on connecting people with it.

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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Park camp 9

akjetam — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:18:18 +0000

The international project Park CAMP 9 creates space and suitable conditions for students, recent graduates and teachers of art colleges in Slovakia and abroad to improve and progress in the field of contemporary art – intermedia and interdisciplinary overlaps in the form of educational activities – workshops. The final output of the wokshops are visual works – interventions created for the specific environment of the city park in Trebišov (site-specific art) and the final exhibition focused this year on interactive art forms, in the environment of the park, where the participants work with the strategies of site-specific art, performance, public art, conceptual art and art of new media – technology.

The exhibition featured Lukáš Matejka / TRAKT (tech. collaboration Alžbeta Bobulová), with the work Home X. Home – Time – Humanity – Technology – Space. Using digital video mapping, the author contrasts the dwelling of the past (the ruins of Parič Castle) and the possible home of the future (the universe).

During the theoretical phase of the workshop, the participants improved their technical, technological and software skills while learning about current trends in the art field. During the practical phase, in cooperation with expert lecturers, they used the acquired experience directly in the field of the park. The educational laboratory provided direct experience with the realization of the work and confrontation with the viewer, where the participants gained new creative impulses, experience and knowledge in the field of contemporary visual art. The event included an accompanying activity GEO-Caching, an interactive game based on GPS coordinates designed for parents with children.

FRIDAY 26/8/2022 – FINISSAGE

18:00 Opening of the accompanying exhibition.

19:00 Opening of the exhibition PARK CAMP 9 and guided tour of the park with curator Miroslav Nicza

21:00 MAPPING to Parič Castle: Lukáš Matejka and TRAKT o.z.

22:00 Musical solitaire – Raptor Koch – Koniareň

23:30 End of the event and de-installation of works in the exterior of the park

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Hiding dance

akjetam — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:07:19 +0000

Hiding dance is a new site-specific concept from TRAKT, which consists of dance performances (contemporary dance and performance) in unconventional places in Trenčín and its periphery. As part of the field artistic research, we chose exteriors – slightly on the urban periphery, at the same time in easy spectator accessibility. With reference to the strong specificity of the places and the distinctive principle of genius loci. The project is a public confrontation of the results of professional dance-performative artists and interprétés Lucia Bielik, Michaela Šeligová, Radoslav Piovarči and Ján Gonda. Hidden Dance counts on the participation of the general public – casual spectators.

The project took place on Saturday 16 July 2022 in the public space of Trenčín and its peripheries.

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Trenčín Self-Governing Region and the City of Trenčín. Thank you.

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Weird Things Festival 2021

akjetam — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:30:28 +0000

Weird things Festival is a cultural and multidisciplinary event of theater, fine arts, music, film and dance production of any type. The festival climaxes in Stará Turá – at the Dubník lake on the 26^th of June 2021.

MIRAGE, Is it an illusion or a dream? is a site-specific multimedia performance created from the residence of several artists.

director: Tomáš Žižka (CZ/SK)

performance by: Lucia Lužinská, Boris Čellár, Ján Kružliak, Tono Popovič, Braňo Hargaš, Péter Cseri (HU/SK), Ján Bárta (CZ), Klára Jakubová (CZ/SK), Petra Fornayová, Monika Haasová, MAJKA: Theater de Generator – Sandra Kramerová (NL/SK), Álvaro Congosto (SP/NL)

lights design and video projection by: Lukáš Matejka and Štefan Oliš /TRAKT

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Park camp 8

akjetam — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:20:32 +0000

The eighth year of the summer workshop Park CAMP focuses on participatory and interactive art, art in the public space of the city park in Trebišov (in cooperation with the Koniareň gallery – space for contemporary art – koniarengallery.com). The aim of the event is to create a professional-educational space for students, graduates and teachers at art colleges in Slovakia and abroad. The aim of the project is gaining new knowledge and experience in the field of contemporary art, intermedia art and interdisciplinary overlaps. The project which was created for the city park in Trebišov and the KONIAREŇ cultural space focuses on the interaction with the spectator via social interventions within natural environment of the park where participants can, aside from participatory an interactive art, work with site-specific art, performance, sound art, public art, conceptual art and new media-technologies art strategies. Apart from the theoretical phase of the workshop, participants can be a part of the practical phase where they can create visual and acoustic arts – interventions into the natural environment of the park, together with professional lecturers (Miroslav Nicz and Peter Valiska-Timečko). The goal is to create such works of art, with which participants will try out the work right on the field in confrontation with the audience. The intention is to react to the specific park environment (site-specific art) or to thematically respond to the direct relationship between the city and natural environment (public – private, natural vs. technological, online – offline).

Authors: Stanislav PIATRIK (SK), Peter VALISKA-TIMEČKO (SK), Monika VITANYI (SK), Miloš MOZDÍK (SK), Martin BIZÍK (SK), Lucia VEČERNÁ (SK), Mária PIATRIKOVÁ (SK), Michaela IHNÁTOVÁ (SK), Juliana SVITKOVÁ (SK), Lukáš MATEJKA – TRAKT (SK) and Štefan OLIŠ – TRAKT SK)

Koniareň is an independent cultural space (former riding hall) located on the premises of the museum and the cultural center of south Zemplín in Trebišov. It is a connection of an art lab, a cultural institution, a community space and a group of activists. The space is situated on the premises of a manor house in one of the biggest forest parks in the Central Europe.

Gardens, fountains, a pond and other natural landmarks are part of the park. There, the visitors can find the Mausoleum of Count Július Andrássy, an amphitheater, the Parič castle ruins, wine cellars, a French garden and various recreational zones. The final exhibition in the Koniareň gallery under the theme INTER-ACTION is part of the event including a guided tour on the marked trail with visual interventions in the city park. Associate professor, a conceptual and multimedia artist and a university lecturer Miroslav Nicz with a degree in painting will be the curator and the lecturer of the event. The workshop will provide a direct experience and confrontation of the author with the public.

Title: PARK CAMP 8. /International workshop of visual art/
Place: Trebišov city park and Koniareň – space for contemporary art
Date: 16^th of August – 21^st of August 2021
Preview: 20^th of August 2021 /Friday/ at 6 pm.
Lecturers: associate prof. Miroslav Nicz (with a degree in painting) and Mgr. art. Peter Valiska-Timečko, ArtD
Organizer: Slovak organization of Art and Culture (civic association) and KONIAREŇ
Co-organizers: the city of Trebišov and the museum and cultural center of the south Zemplín
The event was funded by the Slovak Arts Council from public resources.

Photographs: Stanislav Piatrik, Eva Čarnoká

Translated by: Karin Miklossiová

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CL!CR!

akjetam — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:51:48 +0000

“On a global scale, climate change is going to have radical ecological, social, economic and political impact which will also affect our country in a dramatical way. If we want the consequences to be less impactful, we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in the next decades.”

Videoart/mapping projections entitled KL!KR! (CL!CR!, translator´s note) react to and work with the theme of climate change. Each one of us imagines something different under the notion of climate crisis. Art research carried out by Mgr. art. Lukáš Matejka, ArtD. and a team of contemporary artists relies on collecting oral-personal interpretations of the climate crisis from a wider spectrum of people (children, youth, adults, pensioners) also reaching out to different social classes. These “notes” define some kind of a subject matter or sub-themes for the micro artworks of the project.

Following this is searching for locations which define the places for the implementation of projections intervening in the public space. The new map (Trenčín and surroundings) shows locations where the three time-limited site-specific performances will take place for 3 nights. In total, the project will introduce 9 independent visual artworks to the public. Each artwork will be documented in detail followed by postprocess/ post-production.

The final stages are defined by a thorough selection of presentable photographs for an exhibition in a gallery space. Following the exhibition is a creation of an expanded online concept – in text (professional text) and in picture (photographs, photo documentation, video) on a website.

“The project follows and processes various local and personal views/ attitudes/ understandings/ misunderstandings/ conspiracies into artworks within an important global issue.”

The realization of the project was funded from public resources in the form of a scholarship by the Slovak Arts Council. The implementation of the project was financially supported by the city of Trenčín – youth program. More information will be added.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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Comenius Square comes alive

akjetam — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:02:25 +0000

Comenius Square is a tiny joint behind the historic building of the Slovak National Theater, which OZ TRAKT in cooperation with the city of Bratislava modified and designed elements for revitalization of this public space. So that it belongs to the inhabitants of the city and brings culture and relaxation to the city center. Hand in hand with the Green Patrol we cleaned this space first and then created a concept that will revive this former parking lot.

You can look forward to a cultural program from local artists, as well as a table tennis tournament, dance workshops and children’s theaters. Refreshments will be provided by two local food trucks offering fresh street food.

If you would like to enrich this space with your own activities, please contact us and we will be happy to include you in the creative programming process.

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The future past

akjetam — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:40:08 +0000

An interactive city sightseeing tour introduces to the audience the already forgotten events and important figures of Liptovský Mikuláš. It takes you through the narrow streets of a prosperous community, filled with bussiness and industry, that is multi-religious and progressive. But it no longer exists. Why don´t we ever talk about this past? What from our lives will become such a memory?

A peculiar guide asks you these questions and invites you to think about the last two hundred years in a different way. His talk is enriched with animation and augumented reality, that offers to the spectator an actual look to the past.

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V4 creative youth

akjetam — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:35:31 +0000

First and foremost we aim to cooperate with both formal and informal platforms of artists that are still in their studies. Not all “squad” members are under 32 years of age due to our effort to not only ensure multinational team cooperation and knowledge sharing, but also generational knowledge exchange. Since the festival itself is designed as multi-genre event, we are able to link together artists from different fields of art.

1. Engagement of young artists in the production of an international festival in all its – artists relevant – phases, followed by production of multi-genre performances, preferably done by nationality mixed teams.

2. Production of light and interactive performances with artistic depth focusing on temporal and spatial specifics and societal issues in the V4 region with strong emphasis on historical heritage and shared values.

Their joint performances often reflect current state of society and societal issues in indirect connotations with space for individual imagination… meaning, each spectator perceives the performed narrative according to their personality, which leaves opening for, partly, self-interpretaion, but most important, individual self-reflection, which in the end boosts the impact of morals told. The emphasis is put on youth in terms of young artists from V4 region in order to help them gain necessary experience in promoting of their own work, emphasising team effort in multinational environment, skills acqusition, knowledge sharing, inclusion and networking during relatively big festival production and prepare them to for art market entry after their studies.

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Park camp 3

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

Park camp is a project taking place in Trebišov’s park from 18th to 23rd of July 2016 organised by members of „OZ KONTEXT“ Peter Valiska -Timečko and Branislav Zurko. The role of the lecturers was taken by Lukáš Matejka and Štefan Oliš from „TRAKT“ and their external colleague Ján Ančic took. The target group of Park camp 3 were students of art universities. The project was focused on video and sound art. The aim was a creation of pieces of art responding to the park ambiance – site-specific art. They tried to reflect the relation between urban and natural environment (public-private, organic-inorganic, natural – industrial). Many students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Banska Bystrica and Košice participated on the project. The organisers prepared a kind of „educational laboratory“ to provide students with new creative stimuli and knowledge of actual and progressive art. They had an opportunity to learn new creative methods through experimenting.

There was a field trip of the old city center guided by M. Urban, Slovak wine tasting and several educative presentations e.g. Koniareň platform, sound technologies by J. Ančič, art projects by L.Matejka and Š.Oliš, history of intermedial projects in Slovakia by M.Murin, students work exhibition, Maroš Kontroš’s vernissage and Milan Ladyk’s performance. The highlight was a night tour intended for the general public guided by curator Michal Murin.

The park came alive with young authors’ pieces of art: Ján Krška‘s „Mausoleum video mapping Realitta“ reflecting current political and social situation, FIlip Kmeť’s sound installation „Dutiny“ and interactive installation „Ostrov“, Matúš Gavorník’s sound installation „Enter the Wild„ expressing the difference between artificially created green zones in urban areas and wild nature, which was paradoxically depicted by movement of little electric machines, Martin Hreha’s sound installation, Martin Koniar’s dance performance „Trebishow+“ in which the dribbling performer with lights attached to his body accompanied with musical composition presented a kind of modern ritual. The performer was interacting with the audience by passing the ball to them.

Matej Ivan’s audiovisual experiment creating a dialogue took place in the park as well. It was based on site specific connection of the dog shelter, fox coursing, which are supposed to start again in the park, game hunting and animal protection exhibitions. Jana Mikleová’s installation “Pólo“ referred to a historical polo match.

„Nová Koniareň“ is an independent cultural centre in Trebišov. It merges a cultural laboratory, cultural institution and collective of activists. There are ateliers in Trebišov castle situated in one of the biggest forest parks in Slovakia. The park has many gardens, fountains, lakes and cyclopaths. There is also the Július Andrássy’s Mausoleum, ruins of Parič’s castle, wine taverns, a French garden and several recreation zones.

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