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Equinoxe

akjetam — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:59:28 +0000

Lukáš Matejka (TRAKT) participated his own projections on the international project Equinox. Equinox is the result of a two-year cycle of creative stays in France, Mexico, Hungary and Slovakia. It is a multidisciplinary international performance experimenting with the boundaries of ourselves, with little-crossed forms such as classical and contemporary dance, opera, contemporary classical music, theater, video art and animation.

Kafka’s “America” and “Lock” novels served as the subject of the project, as were the stories of illegal immigrants leaving today from Mexico to the United States. The atmosphere is based on Karol Beff’s original musical work, which won the title of Best French Composer in 2013. Directed by the French director and artistic director of Euroculture Laurent Festas. The introduction of the Equinox was premiered in the summer under the Marseille – Provence 2013 program.

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The Last Anniversary show

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

Project Hopes and Memories after two years meets an accomplishment and comes to his final. The result of our intensive international cooperation is contemporary-ballet-opera performance The Last Anniversary, which /after hard preparation period/ premiered on November 7th in Bakelite Multi Art Center in Budapest. After very successful show in Hungary performance embarked on the European tour with the next a stop right here in Slovak republic. Under control of Lukas Matejka and Pavol Soukal who lead 3D visual part of the performance and together with others 20- international members a crew has prepared for Bratislava A4 space an ultimate adventure.

As a final stop performance was played at the Prague Studio hrdinu on 13th November, where for TRAKT Michaela Bottková took over the leadership. One week later she travelled for a two-week-long South African tour. For an amazing audience in Durban Stable theatre there were played two shows and to complete conclusion of The Last Anniversary Tour, they head in Johannesburg, South Africa’s most populous city. In the Market Theatre our team played five great performances, welcomely visited by local and national television, Ambassadors of the project countries and especially incredibly vibrant domestic audience. Thank you.

European tour (7.10. – 13.10.2014) and African tour (24.10.-2.11.14)

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H&M Residence Budapest

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

TRAKT (Michaela Bottková) spent the second weekend of November in Budapest, Hungary, where she joined the ongoing dance workshop and a choreographic residency of the Hopes and Memories project. Participants had during these 10 days opportunity to work on a common choreography, and gain knowledge of their different approaches. They also worked at conceptual basis-motion line for the final project Hopes and Memories. Over the weekend, completed by the team of visual artists TRAKT (Trencin) and Mamapapa (Prague), artists had an opportunity to walk through the old streets of Budapest, to see and visit traditional Roma musical family and achieve a lot of sources for inspiration. These will be later used for other beam and screening actions in the public spaces, within the V4 project, which TRAKT currently carried. Together with creative artist from Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic they will project in December 2013 finalize.

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Nomads land Košice

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

During the last October week visual team from Hopes and Memories project took a place in Košice, in east part of Slovakia. Artist from TRAKT and Mamapapa met there for three days and they focused on artistic creation of unique beamvertising projection, which was developed and screened in the night streets of Kosice last day of residency. Artists were during 48 hours discovering surrounding, suburbs, and historical city center to catch as much impacts as was possible.

During the Kosice Visegrad residency in first evening in the Tabačka Kulturfabrik placement artists presented theirs previous projects, inspirations and ideas. They also dedicated special part of talk to explanation about the vision of the common project Hopes and Memories. The discussion with audience after the talk was stimulating part and a crucial key to the upcoming artistic creation. Morning and daytime sessions were devoted to sharing different artistic admittances and progress in survey. After two days of creative session, visual team was able to present a public work in progress called Nomadsland.

With the help of locals, visual team discovered important informations about Kosice history as well as major leading figures from Kosice domestic art scene. Kosice environs was great material for researching. For example Alžbetina street is a pedestrian zone leading to the main street, where there is also a statue of Julius Jakoby immortalized in bronze signif by the famous sculptor Juraj Bartus. And he seemed to be exactly that person of Kosice, who we could take over as the visual icon of the city. Always hunched weirdo, passing through the city. Joining also the local graffiti scene, we followed iconic texts that accompany the Kosice inhabitants every day to work and almost in every street. This sentences were something as a open speech of the frank nowadays young society. All these sources were great inspiration for the resulting beamvertising. All the symbols, characters and metaphors were transposed to the hefty visualization.

The public event was held in the streets over three hours, and these moving images were reflection of our found property. Action called NomadsLand brought and kept strong and vibrant output, which will be useful for next residencies and also as a visual material for the final project.

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H&M Residence Wroclaw

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

Lukas Matejka (TRAKT), Tomas Zizka (Mamapapa) and Agnieszka Ćwieląg attended residency in Wroclaw. Artists were participating and Avant Art Festival, and by night walked to the foot all locations and discovered as much local characteristics as was possible. They later prepared beamvertising projection with the motive of Jan Meyerowitz. Due to the composer was born in Breslau and nobody there known about them, visual team made him alive and screened him as a ghost – walking along the facades of the buildings, especially in the fourth Olbin. This variable projection interested a lot of local bystanders and onlookers. Visual team was supplemented by 3 Polish colleagues, involved by Agnieszka Ćwieląg.

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H&M Residence Prague

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

The second largest meeting of the project Hopes and Memories, with the participation of partners from all five participating countries (South Africa, France, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia) took a place in the third week of September (20 – 25.9) in Prague studios DIVUS SPACE, on the land of ours host partners Mamapapa.

During intense working week, partners reviewed and passed thought a variety of important – strategic part of a common project. Through the economic and conceptual part, they also continued in the dramaturgical placement, where they during three days built a solid groundwork for the following cooperative work.

Artists represented by directors (Laurent Festas / France a Themi Venuras / South Africa) music (Johan Farjot / France) set design and costumes (Tomas Zizka / Czech Republic) and visual artist (Lukas Matejka / Slovakia and Michael Bottková / Slovakia) developed a agreed together on the crucial structure and line for their multidisciplinary project , which they afterward presented to their partners from France (Musiques Interdites).

Participants also visited theatres and independent cultural spaces (MEETFACTORY) to have a chance in detail discovered locations and their possibilities for the final performance in Prague.

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H&M Residence Durban

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

As part of an international project Hopes and Memories, in which TRAKT represents one of the five partner organizations, our visual team will be participate for two years on a common formation of multidisciplinary of artwork that is based on prohibited opera “The Barrier” composed by Jan Meyerowitz in, 1949.

The first common creative step was 10-day residence in the South Africa in Durban. TRAKT via Michaela Bottková participated in the development of international cooperation and also trained students of Drama department at Durban University of Technology – for two days by intensive workshops.

The workshop program was divided into several subject fields as new media, scenic design, video and film, dance and choreography and physical theatre. Under our leadership, together with the multi-talented African students were created a very brave and interesting works which will expand by other common projects in next year.

Our action in Durban University much-admired Institution itself and wrote about our activities HERE.

Visual artists during they stay for several days had an opportunity to discover and share African and European influences. They stopped in and paid a visit to many villages and townships, where they absorbed a local culture and traditions of Zulus. During a number of visits a KwaMashu township, artists were involved in the educational system in local areas, schools and courses of dance. Through the work of our Hungarian choreographer partner, young Durban and Kwamashu dancers got a short daily dance training in physical theater and contemporary dance, which offered them a totally different approach to dancing. And as a repay he learned from them some local dance motion and folklore steps which are usually performed in the rain boots.

In addition team had the opportunity to lead workshops in various “godforsaken” areas, but which are locals using as their classes and studios. Artistic centres such as KwaMashu theatre and BAT Centre in Durban just confirmed to us the obvious fact, about how many talented and capable artists in this country is waiting to be found.

One thing is lucid; our residence in South Africa has revealed to us many secrets of this world, which will be very helpful in the formation of our overall project.

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Musiques interdites

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

One of the activities related to the international project Hopes and Memories, where is TRAKT collaborator, was Festival of forbidden operas “Musiques Interdites” as one of the main projects of Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013. TRAKT as a partner apart from invitations (to hear the original opera The Barrier, performed by unique 72-members KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra), was also element of this performance through photographic participation.

This large-scale projection was projected on facade of historic building Marseilles Prefecture, over the heads of participants during all concert performance and indicated each passage of opera libretti.

Pictures were created during residence in South Africa where was TRAKT represented by Michaela Bottková in April this year. They will furthermore continue travel through the whole process of artistic creations as an inspirational material and also as a part of final multidisciplinary work.

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