Welcome to crazy March! Even though it’s mostly said about April, this year’s march is starting out in frost and ending in spring and this transition is accompanied by the A4’s rich and colorful program. Different genres (possible or impossible to put in a box) of music, film, theatre and visual arts are waiting for you almost every day. Be ready for festivals, musical marathons, interesting sounds and noises and new knowledge. This is March in A4.
MUSIC
KRAA! #5: Festival of truly contemporary music
3 March / Saturday
3 March / Saturday
The clearest highlight of this month’s program comes to you already in the beginning of March. It’s a one day/night musical marathon with a bit of an ironic title. The fifth edition of the truly contemporary music of KRAA festival brings new distinctive music projects that are hard to categorize and sort out into genre boxes. The Saturday night will be full of sounds, noises, ambient, dark drones, improvised electro-acoustics, weird folk, beats and humor. The performers are БРАДА, Džumelec, Jano Doe, Line Gate, Matra, Mrkva/Bolka, t16c, urbanfailure, Vrtačky po desáté hodině.
CONCERTS
die Angel (FI, DE), Odpał (SK)
14 March (Wednesday)
14 March (Wednesday)
Ilpo Väisänen will come to A4 after ten years as the remaining member of the legendary Pan Sonic alongside Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider™. This fall they released their eight studio album, titled Die Angel. They will bring dirty and raw rhythms, simple but impressive instant composed music – sophisticated improvisation made by two distinctive personas of the world’s electronic scene. The evening opens with the drone doom musician Odpał, known also by his projects Amen Tma, 0N0 or collective LOM.
KIDS
The famous art guide’s manual / 19th century
1 / 15 / 22 March (Thursdays) / in Slovak and English
1 / 15 / 22 March (Thursdays) / in Slovak and English
Lecturer Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
We are happy to announce that the art afternoons lead by the lecturer, artist and painter Monika Pascoe Mikyšková are continuing. From February there will be focus on the art of 19th century – in theory, paintings analysis but mostly hands-on, with brushes, paints, colors, scissors and colorful cut-outs.
The famous art guide’s manual welcomes all kids between the ages of 4-6 years. Apply now at m.pascoe.mikyskova@gmail.com!
WORKSHOPS
Super sounds in SuperCollider
6 / 20 March (Tuesdays) / in Slovak
6 / 20 March (Tuesdays) / in Slovak
Fero Király continues his workshop about sound and music programming in SuperCollider also in March. SuperCollider is a programming language used to work with sounds and that offers an effective medium for algorithmic and generative composing, live coding, synthesis and sound processing. It is open source and since it also works on most of operative systems, SuperCollider is very tempting to try. Already registered workshop-goers will meet for some music experiments for the third time.
READINGS
8 March (Thursday) free entry / in Slovak
The internationl women’s day in A4 will be feminist. ASPEKT and the Slovak-czech women’s fund
will introduce a feminist anti-fascist text book and read from the collected writings which find the link and understanding between feminism and anti-fascism. During the evening titled Pink covers brown! we will remember the words of Virginia Woolf but also many different publications and texts that are not to be missed when talking about feminism. The visitors are welcomed to bring texts and articles that they consider important not to leave out from the discussion.
LECTURES
12 March (Monday) free entry / in Slovak
presented by Lukáš Krajčír, diskutujú Peter Zajac, Michal Kšiňan, Juraj Smatana
The poetry of democracy is an educational program dedicated to reminiscing over history, society, literature and their links. This evening the guests will analyze the impact of Slovak engaged poetry on our history and remember the 100th anniversary of formation of Czechoslovakia. As one of the founders of the modern Czechoslovakia, Milan Rastislav Štefánik said – “democracy is an organized thought, it’s an idea against chaos”. His undoubtedly positive relationship towards democracy and a significant activities in the science and foreign politics field were the inspiration for many artists and poets in Czechoslovakia. What’s his legacy in contemporary poetry?
22 March (Thursday) free entry / in Slovak
Technology and thinking II. / lectures about the philosophy of media
The series of lectures Technology and thinking brings you yet another evening with Palo Fabuš. The editor-in-chief of the magazine Umělec (The Artist) analyzes the relation between digital technology and human fate. He studied informatics, media theory and sociology and this time will talk about what is the reason. In the history of thinking it used to be the human reasoning what was considered crucial, truth and above everything else. Old habits die hard and that’s also why people were taking it for granted that the most important things are unchangeable. In the modern age we ask where the limits of our reasoning are and whether it is possible to escape it. The lecture will be held in Slovak.
OPENING
23 March (Friday) opening / free entry
Artists Danka Tomečková, Maja Štefančíková
The artists Tomečková and Štefančíková are bringing a subtle spatial site specific intervention into the space of A4 cafe. They are directly challenging the architectural specifics of the concrete space and making a non-exhibition. There’s nothing to show except for what was already there – but in different shades, connections and contexts. New relations of the old and known space challenge the attention and perception of the A4 visitors. Come and notice.
THEATRE
theatre / dance
26 March (monday)
directed by J. Vlk, choreography by S. Vlčeková, text by E. Gindl, translation by M. Solotruk, video art by A. Zelina, set design byJ. Ptačin, costumes by K. Holková, music by J. Vlk, dramaturgy by D. Čiripová, J. Vlk, starring: P. Cseri, S. Vlčeková, whispering B. Mosný
The play is inspired by the poetry of Eugen Gindl WOW! and it deals with the issues of history, its direction and critically approaches the lack of values rethinking. Two disharmony tones can make a new song, but the disharmony of our values makes us look at our issues from different angles.
CINEMA
Various film genre delicatessen and new films but also festival selections of animated or engaged documentary films are brought to you by A4!
5 march (Monday)
PL, 90 min., polish with english subtutles
Come to enjoy the selection of the best polish animation from the festival O!PLA! It’s fifth edition took place in 61 Polish towns. This independent festival brings a colorful mix of polish animaiton not only for children, experimental creations and also films by professional studios together with student and graduate films.
7 March (Wednesday)
Opera o Polsce, directed by Piotr Stasik, PL, 40 min., polish with english subtutles
The controversial opera about national identity directed by Piotr Stasik comes to A4 from Poland. This specific genre film connects pieces from Andrzej Stasik’s book, advertisements, commentaries from internet discussions, PR articles by the government and footage from demonstrations, religious rituals, soldiers’ marching and portraits of the ordinary people. The more intense the text gets the more disturbing and ecstatic is the intense finale gradation.
28 March (Wednesday)
directed by Jan Švankmajer, CZ/SK, 98 min., Czech language
The pub in the small town is closed, the chairs are put up on the tables and there’re soft paper wings, butterfly wings and shiny insect shards are hanging on the wall instead of coats. It does already sound like a vision by Jan Švankmajer. Suppored by the play by the Čapek brothers, the insect behaves like people and people behave like insect and the story of the pub, small creatures and big people develops.
2 March (Friday)
CA Vegánske hody (Vegan feast) brings a well fitting screening of a documentary film The Last Pig about being a conscious creature with the power to kill.
11 March (Sunday)
La planète sauvage, directed by René Laloux, FR/CS, 72 min., french with english subtitles
The legendary animated sci-fi brings a story of the human kind in the far future. On the planet Ygam humans live as pets of the more developed kind of Draags. When one of the humans finds the way to gain the Draags knowledge and he runs away to join the wild humans, the two kinds star a war. The film was awarded by the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
4 March (Sunday)
directed by Lynne Ramsay, GB, 95 min., english with Czech subtitles
We are introducing the new film by the director Lynne Ramsay. The war veteran Joe embarks to the journey of fight for the justice. He tries to rescue a minor girl from forced prostitution but his mission is getting gradually more difficult because of power, revenge and violence.
25 March (Sunday)
Freiheit, directed by Jan Speckenbach, DE/SK, 100 min., German and Slovak with Slovak subtitles
Forty year old Nora is leaving her husband and two children, pulled by an intense inexplicable force, aiming to find her freedom. She leaves for Vienna, goes through love affairs but also adrenaline filled loneliness. Then she leaves to explore Bratislava and starts a new life. German film made in familiar environment is recommended not only to the curious Bratislava locals. Come to A4 to see Bratislava filmed by foreign filmmakers’ eyes.
in A4
text: Gabriela Gažová
Welcome to crazy March! Even though it’s mostly said about April, this year’s march is starting out in frost and ending in spring and this transition is accompanied by the A4’s rich and colorful program. Different genres (possible or impossible to put in a box) of music, film, theatre and visual arts are waiting for you almost every day. Be ready for festivals, musical marathons, interesting sounds and noises and new knowledge. This is March in A4.
MUSIC
KRAA! #5: Festival of truly contemporary music
3 March / Saturday
The clearest highlight of this month’s program comes to you already in the beginning of March. It’s a one day/night musical marathon with a bit of an ironic title. The fifth edition of the truly contemporary music of KRAA festival brings new distinctive music projects that are hard to categorize and sort out into genre boxes. The Saturday night will be full of sounds, noises, ambient, dark drones, improvised electro-acoustics, weird folk, beats and humor. The performers are БРАДА, Džumelec, Jano Doe, Line Gate, Matra, Mrkva/Bolka, t16c, urbanfailure, Vrtačky po desáté hodině.
CONCERTS
die Angel (FI, DE), Odpał (SK)
14 March (Wednesday)
Ilpo Väisänen will come to A4 after ten years as the remaining member of the legendary Pan Sonic alongside Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider™. This fall they released their eight studio album, titled Die Angel. They will bring dirty and raw rhythms, simple but impressive instant composed music – sophisticated improvisation made by two distinctive personas of the world’s electronic scene. The evening opens with the drone doom musician Odpał, known also by his projects Amen Tma, 0N0 or collective LOM.
KIDS
The famous art guide’s manual / 19th century
1 / 15 / 22 March (Thursdays) / in Slovak and English
Lecturer Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
We are happy to announce that the art afternoons lead by the lecturer, artist and painter Monika Pascoe Mikyšková are continuing. From February there will be focus on the art of 19th century – in theory, paintings analysis but mostly hands-on, with brushes, paints, colors, scissors and colorful cut-outs.
The famous art guide’s manual welcomes all kids between the ages of 4-6 years. Apply now at m.pascoe.mikyskova@gmail.com!
WORKSHOPS
Super sounds in SuperCollider
6 / 20 March (Tuesdays) / in Slovak
Fero Király continues his workshop about sound and music programming in SuperCollider also in March. SuperCollider is a programming language used to work with sounds and that offers an effective medium for algorithmic and generative composing, live coding, synthesis and sound processing. It is open source and since it also works on most of operative systems, SuperCollider is very tempting to try. Already registered workshop-goers will meet for some music experiments for the third time.
READINGS
“Pink covers brown!”
8 March (Thursday) free entry / in Slovak
The internationl women’s day in A4 will be feminist. ASPEKT and the Slovak-czech women’s fund
will introduce a feminist anti-fascist text book and read from the collected writings which find the link and understanding between feminism and anti-fascism. During the evening titled Pink covers brown! we will remember the words of Virginia Woolf but also many different publications and texts that are not to be missed when talking about feminism. The visitors are welcomed to bring texts and articles that they consider important not to leave out from the discussion.
LECTURES
The poetry of democracy / Štefánik
12 March (Monday) free entry / in Slovak
presented by Lukáš Krajčír, diskutujú Peter Zajac, Michal Kšiňan, Juraj Smatana
The poetry of democracy is an educational program dedicated to reminiscing over history, society, literature and their links. This evening the guests will analyze the impact of Slovak engaged poetry on our history and remember the 100th anniversary of formation of Czechoslovakia. As one of the founders of the modern Czechoslovakia, Milan Rastislav Štefánik said – “democracy is an organized thought, it’s an idea against chaos”. His undoubtedly positive relationship towards democracy and a significant activities in the science and foreign politics field were the inspiration for many artists and poets in Czechoslovakia. What’s his legacy in contemporary poetry?
Palo Fabuš: Fantasy of the reason
22 March (Thursday) free entry / in Slovak
Technology and thinking II. / lectures about the philosophy of media
The series of lectures Technology and thinking brings you yet another evening with Palo Fabuš. The editor-in-chief of the magazine Umělec (The Artist) analyzes the relation between digital technology and human fate. He studied informatics, media theory and sociology and this time will talk about what is the reason. In the history of thinking it used to be the human reasoning what was considered crucial, truth and above everything else. Old habits die hard and that’s also why people were taking it for granted that the most important things are unchangeable. In the modern age we ask where the limits of our reasoning are and whether it is possible to escape it. The lecture will be held in Slovak.
OPENING
Islands of sitting – subtle intervention
23 March (Friday) opening / free entry
Artists Danka Tomečková, Maja Štefančíková
The artists Tomečková and Štefančíková are bringing a subtle spatial site specific intervention into the space of A4 cafe. They are directly challenging the architectural specifics of the concrete space and making a non-exhibition. There’s nothing to show except for what was already there – but in different shades, connections and contexts. New relations of the old and known space challenge the attention and perception of the A4 visitors. Come and notice.
THEATRE
Debris Company, Eugen Gindl: WOW!
theatre / dance
26 March (monday)
directed by J. Vlk, choreography by S. Vlčeková, text by E. Gindl, translation by M. Solotruk, video art by A. Zelina, set design byJ. Ptačin, costumes by K. Holková, music by J. Vlk, dramaturgy by D. Čiripová, J. Vlk, starring: P. Cseri, S. Vlčeková, whispering B. Mosný
The play is inspired by the poetry of Eugen Gindl WOW! and it deals with the issues of history, its direction and critically approaches the lack of values rethinking. Two disharmony tones can make a new song, but the disharmony of our values makes us look at our issues from different angles.
CINEMA
Various film genre delicatessen and new films but also festival selections of animated or engaged documentary films are brought to you by A4!
O!PLA Across the Borders 2017
5 march (Monday)
PL, 90 min., polish with english subtutles
Come to enjoy the selection of the best polish animation from the festival O!PLA! It’s fifth edition took place in 61 Polish towns. This independent festival brings a colorful mix of polish animaiton not only for children, experimental creations and also films by professional studios together with student and graduate films.
Opera about Poland
7 March (Wednesday)
Opera o Polsce, directed by Piotr Stasik, PL, 40 min., polish with english subtutles
The controversial opera about national identity directed by Piotr Stasik comes to A4 from Poland. This specific genre film connects pieces from Andrzej Stasik’s book, advertisements, commentaries from internet discussions, PR articles by the government and footage from demonstrations, religious rituals, soldiers’ marching and portraits of the ordinary people. The more intense the text gets the more disturbing and ecstatic is the intense finale gradation.
Insect
28 March (Wednesday)
directed by Jan Švankmajer, CZ/SK, 98 min., Czech language
The pub in the small town is closed, the chairs are put up on the tables and there’re soft paper wings, butterfly wings and shiny insect shards are hanging on the wall instead of coats. It does already sound like a vision by Jan Švankmajer. Suppored by the play by the Čapek brothers, the insect behaves like people and people behave like insect and the story of the pub, small creatures and big people develops.
The Last Pig
2 March (Friday)
CA Vegánske hody (Vegan feast) brings a well fitting screening of a documentary film The Last Pig about being a conscious creature with the power to kill.
Fantastic Planet
11 March (Sunday)
La planète sauvage, directed by René Laloux, FR/CS, 72 min., french with english subtitles
The legendary animated sci-fi brings a story of the human kind in the far future. On the planet Ygam humans live as pets of the more developed kind of Draags. When one of the humans finds the way to gain the Draags knowledge and he runs away to join the wild humans, the two kinds star a war. The film was awarded by the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
You Were Never Really Here
4 March (Sunday)
directed by Lynne Ramsay, GB, 95 min., english with Czech subtitles
We are introducing the new film by the director Lynne Ramsay. The war veteran Joe embarks to the journey of fight for the justice. He tries to rescue a minor girl from forced prostitution but his mission is getting gradually more difficult because of power, revenge and violence.
Freedom
25 March (Sunday)
Freiheit, directed by Jan Speckenbach, DE/SK, 100 min., German and Slovak with Slovak subtitles
Forty year old Nora is leaving her husband and two children, pulled by an intense inexplicable force, aiming to find her freedom. She leaves for Vienna, goes through love affairs but also adrenaline filled loneliness. Then she leaves to explore Bratislava and starts a new life. German film made in familiar environment is recommended not only to the curious Bratislava locals. Come to A4 to see Bratislava filmed by foreign filmmakers’ eyes.