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  • Park camp 8

    Park camp 8

    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: 16th of August – 21st of August 2021

    Preview: 20th 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

  • Film workshop 2

    Film workshop 2

    TRAKT citizens association has already organized a second workshop dedicated to film.

    The students at the School of Applied Arts in Trenčín studied the ins and outs of short feature films. During 2 online meetings, they had a chance to get familiarized with literature and director preparation for a feature film. This part of the workshop was arranged by Martin Velič, a television screenwriter and a director who has worked on various film projects, in cooperation with Peter Bebjak, for example.

    As decided by the organizers of the workshop, the whole lecture was shot and prepared in advance at the Fleck coworking premises in Trenčín. The lectures may be used as a study material for future students.

    The theoretical part was followed by the practical part where the students created mood boards. With the help of this kind of visual presentation, they communicated their own author intent towards the production of their own audiovisual piece of work – Self-portrait.

    After presenting their mood boards, they began shooting the scenes in their own environment so they could depict their personalities in the best way possible. “It was important that the participants analyzed their own personalities because it was them who were the main characters of their own artwork.” says Patrik Kubizna, the organizer of the workshop.

    The shot scenes were consulted with the students from The Audiovisual Arts Studio of Tomas Bata University in Zlín after the first week of shooting. The university students consulted the high schoolers on the upcoming audiovisual artworks in 3 meetings during 2 weeks.

    The final discussion took place on Tuesday, 15th of December, and Juraj Ondruš, Senior Video Editor in Bumerang film productions who was a part of it, gave feedback on the created artworks whose theme was a self-portrait. “The self-portraits were diverse, and their different forms of presentation caught my attention. Some of them would even succeed at admittance tests to universities specializing in film” says Juraj Ondruš praising the work of workshop participants.

    The citizens association TRAKT has decided to present the participants´ artworks in their online gallery. “We are very happy that the students succeeded in creating interesting author artworks under difficult conditions caused by the coronavirus.”

    The project was supported by the city of Trenčín, under the Youth (Mládež) grant program. Thank you.

    Translation: Karin Mikossiová

  • Online Raster: Štefan Oliš and TRAKT citizens association

    Online Raster: Štefan Oliš and TRAKT citizens association

    Under the patronage of RASTER, Malý Berlín (Little Berlin) hosts lectures dedicated to visual arts. Its lecturer is Roman Gajdoš, an artist and a teacher, who regularly invites guests. This time, it was ŠTEFAN OLIŠ from TRAKT citizens association who has accepted the invitation. As one of its founding members, he is going to talk about the TRAKT´s story, how they overcame the struggles; he will highlight their most interesting projects and will say a few words about the association´s philosophy and their plans for the future. This lecture was supported by Funds for Arts Support Slovakia from public resources.

    Translation: Karin Mikossiová

  • Pecha Kucha Night vol.1 Trenčín

    Pecha Kucha Night vol.1 Trenčín

    We will meet on May 25, 2019 at 1.Mája Street in Trenčín at the event called Trenčín na Korze and TRAKT will be there.

    What is Pecha Kucha Night 20 × 20?

    The theme of this first PK is “What is Art, Culture, Design, and Architecture in Trencin”. Our idea is to show people in Trenčín other clever people who has been contributing to the cultural development of the city.

    Our goal to present activities associated with the cultural development of the city. Viewers will learn about ideas, creative thoughts, dreams. They will also learn a lot of information about running projects, motivation and demotivation, obstacles or perhaps even about some unexpected help.

    Translated: Jana Stupňanová

  • Life is not a zebra

    Life is not a zebra

    The Faculty of Socio-Economic Relations of the Alexander Dubcek University in Trencin, in cooperation with Tomas Bata University in Zlín, will host the opening ceremony of the exhibition of non-profit organizations on 10:00 April at 10:00 am in the TnUAD Student Center. There will also be a TRAKT civil association.

    They can present their activities to the general public at the exhibition of non-profit organizations of the whole Trenčín Self-governing Region and thus highlight and highlight the importance of the non-profit sector. The project is associated not only with the exhibition itself, but mainly with a number of workshops and accompanying events for both the general public and the professional public.

  • On Your Own Feet 3

    On Your Own Feet 3

    The non-profit organization Voices organized the third continuation of the event On Their Own Feet, which took place in the centre of Trencin in the Vazka Gallery on Tuesday 19 February 2019 from 18:00.

    The wider goal of the format is to non-violently motivate young people in the city to creativity and autonomy, to facilitate new friendship formation, and cooperation and to contribute to the development of the community. The main line is the presentation of speakers. One of them was also a member and a co-founder of TRAKT, Mgr. art. Štefan Oliš. Among other speakers there were: Marek Hattas, Miša Chmelickova, Peter Michalik and Zuzana Vaskova. The notional line was set high. All the representatives were talking about how they went and go for what they like and what they care about.

    Translated: Jana Stupňanová

  • Creative workshops

    Creative workshops

    Creative workshops reflect current trends in the culture of new media art and digital art. In the local context, they significantly support the development of creativity and the creative potential of Trenčín’s youth. At the same time, the project helps to improve the personal competencies of young people in their work life. It helps to overcome barriers in both creative and collaborative creative research and experiments through “technology and software games”. That all was performed for a period of four days (2×2 format) under the conception and supervision of professional lecturers and artists.

    The lecturer of the first series of workshops with the topic of VJ was Ľubomír Slovinsky. One week later, Mgr.art.Lukáš Matejka, ArtD (TRAKT), a lecturer, developed the topic of videomapping as a follow up to the workshops.

    Translated: Jana Stupňanová

  • V4 creative youth

    V4 creative youth

    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.

  • Digital nomads workshop

    Digital nomads workshop

    During the extended weekend of 15th – 17th September 2017, a digital nomad workshop was held in the premises of the Central Art School in Trencin. Students from the Central Art School Trenčín and from Ludovít Štúr School in Trenčín met together for the first time on Friday, September 15 at 9:00. The workshop was successfully launched by Pavol Paulenda from the Triad Advertising advertising agency. After learning each other, Pavol Paulenda went on to the first pages of the presentation where he introduced students to the world of contemporary and modern advertising. In the first part they learned all about the brand. Since the workshop program was set up to interconnect the theoretical and practical part, the students immediately went to work. Student’s brand in each school is made up of the Student Council, so it should define and determine what the students’ board means and what is its role.

    A good lunch followed an introduction to the creative process. Students have learned how a creative process works in an advertising agency. Pavol Paulenda showed them the individual team members at Triad Advertising and their specific tasks. After completing the lecture they started their own creative process. They identified what the Student Council product is, where presentations are presented and how they can improve.

    On Saturday, September 16th, the workshop began with demonstrations of successful modern advertising campaigns. He pointed to the differences between advertising in the US and the European market. Students were able to see not only the ad result, but the whole process from the creative process to the campaign evaluation. After completing this section, they focused on social networks and their use. They have learned not only how social networks can benefit in their own benefit, but also how social networks work. At the same time, they learned about which social network is the most suitable video and for which image format. Students have seen how paid advertising works, its benefits and disadvantages. Later on, during the workshop, they had the opportunity to try the paid campaign. Subsequently, Paulenda divided the students into 2 teams that worked on an advertising campaign for the Student Council of the Grammar School Ľudovít Štúr and on an advertising campaign for the Student Council of the Secondary Art School. New online rooms have been created for the SUW Student Council, where they can be advised to present and receive suggestions from students. The board has created its own Instagram, Youtube channel, Google + account, and changed the design of an existing Facebook page. A logo was created for the GDE Student Council and the students worked on a joint campaign to popularize their school counseling.

    In addition to these activities, students were provided with a photographic studio and rooms equipped with computers to work on their online outlets. The students made full use of these spaces for their upcoming campaigns and, moreover, they were always available by photographer Kristina Pastorková, who helped them work with a professional photographic studio.

    On Sunday 17 September, Ivan Ježík from Voices, who came to discuss how to present their work, was welcomed in the morning. He showed them basic body work, eye contact, how they should express themselves during the presentation. Additionally, students received advice on how to suppress stress when presenting or how to create a compelling presentation. These valuable advice was then used to create a joint presentation that students will present at TSK’s premises during the Presidents’ Meeting of the Student Councils of the Trenčín Self-Governing Region.

    As the workshop was slowly approaching its finale, the students agreed on a joint strategic work program for the future and set clear deadlines for parts of the advertising campaign. On Sunday, at 13:00, the workshop was officially closed and students spoke. Throughout the implementation of the project there was a positive mood, which was provided by Pavol Paulenda and some members of the project. The way we looked at our workshop can also be seen in the next video.

    The project was organized under the auspices of the Civil Association TRAKT. The project would not have been created without the financial support of the City of Trenčín and the EPH Foundation, thank you!

     

  • Creating a Visual Portfolio – HALA

    Creating a Visual Portfolio – HALA

    Lecture of Digital Artist Mgr. Art. Lukáš Matejka, ArtD. (TRAKT) about the need and meaning of “self” presentation of the current artist’s portfolio on the Internet. Online space and social networks today are essential for implementing marketing strategies. Similar strategies can be used, in addition to agencies and companies, by the ordinary mortal – artist. Than? The lecture, which was held on June 22, 2016 at the HALA 2016 Symposium in Trenčín (premises of the former Merina), allowed the audience to get acquainted with current web tools for the creative presentation of their work.