Welcome to April, starting out with some chocolate eggs and bringing us to summer! This month we are bringing you a colorful genre and mood mixture. Come to enjoy new program full of workshops, discussions, dance festivals, film retrospectives and sound workshops – not only for adults! Be ready for horror stories, space sounds, London’s club scene, drawings, collages and some projects from Florida (if you know, what we mean). Ladies and gentlemen, this it April in A4!
MUSIC / DISCUSSIONS / LECTURES
Tuesday / 10.04.
Teasing is a series of inspiring lectures and discussions combined with listening to music. On the 10th of April we welcome Juraj Mojík alias Bad Mojo, who is a vera active and well known member of the Slovak and also Czech music scene. For ten years he’s been organizing the famous club nights Hochspannung! with Michal Priest and is also a founder of internet magazine Splash!. Besides mapping the local (and global) electro scene Juraj also works on his own productions – he released two EPs and many remixes. The mixture of broken techno and dark bass lines will be played and talked about by Bad Mojo in the company of Tea Tralna.
Technology and thinking with Palo Fabuš
Friday / 13.04.
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 the birth of the computer from the spirit of mathematics, where Fabuš will analyze the significance of computers as both the technological inventions and the reasons of what changed the human ways of thinking forever. If the computer is born out of the crisis of reason of the 20th century, where the thinking can’t be combined with the thought itself, we are made to accept the fact that thinking is no longer only a human thing to do.
The lecture will be held in Slovak.
presented by Peter Dolník
Tuesday / 24.04.
The A4 starts a new program Futurit in which the current social and political situation is being reflected in the context of contemporary music scene. In the first edition of the Futurit series the presenter Peter Dolník will examine the nowadays London’s scene full of pulsing multicultural genre, economical and ethnic differences and influences. The capital of the UK has been for centuries one of the leaders of the music industry also thanks to the continuous infusion of various cultures and inputs and genre mixes via migration. How did the sound system culture get to the peak of London’s scene and what was the British tradition’s reaction? Peter Dolník will be mapping the club scene since the eighties until now and won’t omit the phenomena of free-parties, gentrification, jungle, acid house or dubstep.
CONCERTS
Tuesday / 17.04.
Miman is a young Norwegian trio consisting of fiddler Hans Kjorstad, guitarist and clarinetist Andreas Røysum and bassist Egil Kalman specializing in spontaneous jazz, improvisation and virtuous tones of contemporary instrumental music. The trio’s music is inspired by different backgrounds, working with influences from Norwegian folk music, noise and classical music, always in unpredictable and unrepeatable combinations.
Saturday / 28.04.
The Space Lady alias Dietrich Schneider started her career as a busker in the seventies – at the dawn of the hippie era in the US. Now she’s on tour again, bringing her famous space helmet with her and her synthesizer Casio along to make futuristic sounds into songs and covers. The Space Ladies unforgettable expressivity and humor doesn’t lose its energy even after the busking times are long over. Space music, synth pop, psychadelic pop, outsider music are only a few of the definitions of this kind of “peace and harmony”. This spacey evening will be started off by the supporting act of Kateřina Zochová – a contemporary artist and a musician based in Prague, who focuses not only on making her own instruments but also on playing the harp and teaching kids to hear the silence (more in the workshop section).
WORKSHOP
Tuesday / 10.04. and 17.04
Fero Király’s workshop about sound and music programming in SuperCollider continues. 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 fifth time.
KIDS
Thursdays / 05.04., 12.04., 19.04., 26.04
Lecturer Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
Sun is shinning and colors are everywhere! Beautiful things and compositions are going to be discussed, analyzed and made at the April’s Thursday workshops with Monika Pascoe Mikyšková – the lecturer, artist and painter behind the The Famous Art Guide’s Manual. 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.pas- coe.mikyskova@gmail.com!
Saturday / 28.04.
We invite all the curious kids to find the silence and make friends with it – and not necessary while being quiet. Lead by the amazing Kateřina Zochová – a musician and a contemporary artist from Prague – the workshop will focus on tones, sounds, music and non-music and also what happens when there’s no sound. The young visitors will have a chance to analyze what would be if there was no silence, how does silence look like, taste like, smell like – and why do sounds even need it? Kids between 11 and 14 years will examine who we are and what makes us who we are via sound collages, musical and non-musical instruments and sound portraits.
The cooperation with Kateřina Zochová and her workshop was made possible by the project Re-Imagine Europe that makes connections and networks of different cultural centres possible in Europe.
The workshop will be held in two parts – second edition to be continued in May! Apply at workshop@a4.sk.
ART OPENING
Monday / 30.04.
Intermedia artist Peter Barényi will present a collection of works on paper made in the last two years. Subtle drawings are a visual diary simplified into abstract points, spots, lines and fields – the most authentic way of documentation.
LITERATURE
Friday / 27.04.
A new book of short stories by Richard Pupala Čierny zošit (Black textbook) recently got between the ten best nominees of the prestigious literature award Anasoft litera. The genre collection is full of spooky and goosebump-y stories although there are no sticky monsters or aliens mentioned at all.
DANCE
20. – 25.4.
In April A4 will welcome THE contemporary festival of dance in its space. The 13th edition of the festival of dance and movement performance annually brings the most compelling collection of the contemporary dance, choreography and discussions with the artists.
CINEMA
A4 has a colorful mix of contemporary and classical cinema prepared for you in April. Be ready for various genres, retrospectives, current american scene and Belgian – Romani cooperation.
4 / 9 / 11 / 15 / 18 April
A4’s very own KINO INAK is bringing you a captivating and genre-wise very colorful retrospective of the acclaimed French director Claire Denis (1946) in April as a part of the program ZOOM. In depth view on the work of the director who is one of the most distinctive directors in Europe will include five films watching which the viewers will have a chance to analyze and understand her style, story and view on the world. Claire Denis spent a part of her youth living in the postcolonial Africa and this experience had influenced many of her films – also a few of those to be screened in A4. No Fear, No Die about rooster fights organized in the suburbs of Paris by immigrants, I Can’t Sleep inspired by the story of a serial killer and postcolonial present of nowadays France.
One of Claire Denis’s most critically acclaimed films Good Work brings a dark and mysterious look on the French legions. A crucial part of the director’s work is a genre subversion that evoke a strong psychological effect for example a bloodthirsty cannibal romance with Vincent Gallo called Trouble Every Day. The retrospective will bring the new romantic and feminist film Bright Sunshine In with Juliette Binoche about the beauty and struggle of living love and sex as a middle aged woman. Program ZOOM with Claire Denis was made possible through the cooperation with the French Institute and all the films will be screened in French language with English subtitles.
Tuesday / 03.04.
Three immigrants in Brussels – Rasťo, Tomáš and Mižu attempt to dig into the safe of the national bank through the basement of a flower shop. Film directed by Ruben Desiere (BE/SK) balancing between fiction and documentary tells a story of disillusion of outsider characters who through absurd action try to magically change their fate. Film will be screened in Romani with Slovak subtitles.
Sunday / 08.04.
Subversive antique film by independent Czech filmmakers will be presented by its directors Antonín Šilar a Ondřej Cikán. The screen will have a kidnapped bride, sad hero, pirates, bloodthirsty monsters and a surreal world odyssey to show – Thaïs is marrying Menandrom after all. The film will be screened in Czech and German language with Czech subtitles.
Sunday / 15.04.
Sean Baker is a rising star of contemporary independent American filmmaking scene since his highly dynamic, humorous and completely on iPhone shot film Tangerine. His new movie The Florida Project tells a story of a six year old girl and her friends during the summer. What sounds happy and carefree soon shows as a complex living situation full of complicated relationships and irresponsible adults and lost children. The film will be screened in English language with Czech subtitles.
Sean Baker is a rising star of contemporary independent American filmmaking scene since his highly dynamic, humorous and completely on iPhone shot film Tangerine. His new movie The Florida Project tells a story of a six year old girl and her friends during the summer. What sounds happy and carefree soon shows as a complex living situation full of complicated relationships and irresponsible adults and lost children. The film will be screened in English language with Czech subtitles.in A4
Welcome to April, starting out with some chocolate eggs and bringing us to summer! This month we are bringing you a colorful genre and mood mixture. Come to enjoy new program full of workshops, discussions, dance festivals, film retrospectives and sound workshops – not only for adults! Be ready for horror stories, space sounds, London’s club scene, drawings, collages and some projects from Florida (if you know, what we mean).
Ladies and gentlemen, this it April in A4!
MUSIC / DISCUSSIONS / LECTURES
Teasing #8 / Bad Mojo
Tuesday / 10.04.
Teasing is a series of inspiring lectures and discussions combined with listenting to music. On the 10th of April we wlcome Juraj Mojík alias Bad Mojo, who is a vera active and well known member of the Slovak and also Czech music scene. For ten years he’s been organizing the famous club nights Hochspannung! with Michal Priest and is also a founder of internet magazine Splash!. Besides mapping the local (and global) electro scene Juraj also works on his own productions – he released two EPs and many remixes. The mixture of broken techno and dark bass lines will be played and talked about by Bad Mojo in the company of Tea Tralna.
Technology and thinking with Palo Fabuš
The birth of the computer from the spirit of mathematics
Friday / 13.04.
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 the birth of the computer from the spirit of mathematics, where Fabuš will analyze the significance of computers as both the technological inventions and the reasons of what changed the human ways of thinking forever. If the computer is born out of the crisis of reason of the 20th century, where the thinking can’t be combined with the thought itself, we are made to accept the fact that thinking is no longer only a human thing to do.
The lecture will be held in Slovak.
Futurit: Pop music in context #London
presented by Peter Dolník
Tuesday / 24.04.
The A4 starts a new program Futurit in which the current social and political situation is being reflected in the context of contemporary music scene. In the first edition of the Futurit series the presenter Peter Dolník will examine the nowadays London’s scene full of pulsing multicultural genre, economical and ethnic differences and influences. The capital of the UK has been for centuries one of the leaders of the music industry also thanks to the continuous infusion of various cultures and inputs and genre mixes via migration. How did the sound system culture get to the peak of London’s scene and what was the British tradition’s reaction? Peter Dolník will be mapping the club scene since the eighties until now and won’t omit phenomenas of free-parties, gentrification, jungle, acid house or dubstep.
CONCERTS
Impro Café: Miman (NO)
Tuesday / 17.04.
Miman is a young Norwegian trio consisting of fiddler Hans Kjorstad, guitarist and clarinetist Andreas Røysum and bassist Egil Kalman specializing in spontaneous jazz, improvisation and virtuous tones of contemporary instrumental music. The trio’s music is inspired by different backgrounds, working with influences from Norwegian folk music, noise and classical music, always in unpredictable and unrepeatable combinations.
The Space Lady (US), Kateřina Zochová (CZ)
Saturday / 28.04.
The Space Lady aias Dietrich Schneider started her career as a busker in the seventies – at the dawn of the hippie era in the US. Now she’s on tour again, bringing her famous space helmet with her and her synthesizer Casio along to make futuristic sounds into songs and covers. The Space Ladies unforgettable expressivity and humor doesn’t lose its energy even after the busking times are long over. Space music, synth pop, psychadelic pop, outsider music are only a few of the definitions of this kind of “peace and harmony”. This spacey evening will be started off by the supporting act of Kateřina Zochová – a contemporary artist and a musician based in Prague, who focuses not only on making her own instruments but also on playing the harp and teaching kids to hear the silence (more in the workshop section).
WORKSHOP
Super sounds in SuperCollider
Tuesday / 10.04. and 17.04
Fero Király’s workshop about sound and music programming in SuperCollider continues. 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 fifth time.
KIDS
The Famous Art Guide’s Manual / 19th Century
Thursdays / 05.04., 12.04., 19.04., 26.04
Lecturer Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
Sun is shinning and colors are everywhere! Beautiful things and compositions are going to be discussed, analyzed and made at the April’s Thursday workshops with Monika Pascoe Mikyšková – the lecturer, artist and painter behind the The Famous Art Guide’s Manual. 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.pas- coe.mikyskova@gmail.com!
And then the silence smiled 1 – music workshop for kids
Saturday / 28.04.
We invite all the curious kids to find the silence and make friends with it – and not necessarywhile being quiet. Lead by the amazing Kateřina Zochová – a musician and a contemporary artist from Prague – the workshop will focus on tones, sounds, music and non-music and also what happens when there’s no sound. The young visitors will have a chance to analyze what would be if there was no silence, how does silence look like, taste like, smell like – and why do sounds even need it? Kids between 11 and 14 years will examine who we are and what makes us who we are via sound collages, musical and non-musical instruments and sound portraits.
The cooperation with Kateřina Zochová and her workshop was made possible by the project Re-Imagine Europe that makes connections and networks of different cultural centres possible in Europe.
The workshop will be held in two parts – second edition to be continued in May! Apply at workshop@a4.sk.
ART OPENING
Peter Barényi: drawings and collages
Monday / 30.04.
Intermediálny umelec Peter Barényi predstaví výber z rozsiahlejšieho celku prác na papieri z obdobia uplynulých dvoch rokov. Subtílne kresby sú vizuálnym denníkom zostručneným do bodov, škvŕn, línií a plôch – pre autora najautentickejších spôsob zaznamenávania a vyjadrenia.
LITERATURE
litera fest
Friday / 27.04.
A new book of short stories by Richard Pupala Čierny zošit (Black textbook) recently got between the ten best nominees of the prestigious literature award Anasoft litera. The genre collection is full of spooky and goosebump-y stories although there are no sticky monsters or aliens mentioned at all.
DANCE
NU DANCE FEST
20. – 25.4.
In April A4 will welcome THE contemporary festival of dance in its space. The 13th edition of the festival of dance and movement performance annually brings the most compelling collection of the contemporary dance, choreography and discussions with the artists.
CINEMA
A4 has a colorful mix of contemporary and classical cinema prepared for you in April. Be ready for various genres, retrospectives, current american scene but also some Sovak-Belgian cooperations!
Zoom Claire Denis
4 / 9 / 11 / 15 / 18 April
A4’s very own KINO INAK is bringing you a captivating and genre-wise very colorful retrospective of the acclaimed French director Claire Denis (1946) in April as a part of the program ZOOM. In depth view on the work of the director who is one of the most distinctive directors in Europe will include five films watching which the viewers will have a chance to analyze and understand her style, story and view on the world. Claire Denis spent a part of her youth living in the postcolonial Africa and this experience had influenced many of her films – also a few of those to be screened in A4. No Fear, No Die about rooster fights organized in the suburbs of Paris by immigrants, I Can’t Sleep inspired by the story of a serial killer and postcolonial present of nowadays France.
One of Claire Denis’s most critically acclaimed films Good Work brings a dark and mysterious look on the French legions. A crucial part of the director’s work is a genre subversion that evoke a strong psychological effect for example a bloodthirsty cannibal romance with Vincent Gallo called Trouble Every Day. The retrospective will bring the new romantic and feminist film Bright Sunshine In with Juliette Binoche about the beauty and struggle of living love and sex as a middle aged woman. Program ZOOM with Claire Denis was made possible through the cooperation with the French Institute and all the films will be screened in French language with English subtitles.
The Flower Shop / La fleurière
Tuesday / 03.04.
Three immigrants in Brussels – Rasťo, Tomáš and Mižu attempt to dig into the safe of the national bank through the basement of a flower shop. Film directed by Ruben Desiere (BE/SK) balancing between fiction and documentary tells a story of disillusion of outsider characters who through absurd action try to magically change their fate. Film will be screened in Romani with Slovak subtitles.
Menandros & Thaïs
Sunday / 08.04.
Subversive antique film by independent Czech filmmakers will be presented by its directors Antonín Šilar a Ondřej Cikán. The screen will have a kidnapped bride, sad hero, pirates, bloodthirsty monsters and a surreal world odyssey to show – Thaïs is marrying Menandrom after all. The film will be screened in Czech and German language with Czech subtitles.
The Florida Project
Sunday / 15.04.
Sean Baker is a rising star of contemporary independent American filmmaking scene since his highly dynamic, humorous and completely on iPhone shot film Tangerine. His new movie The Florida Project tells a story of a six year old girl and her friends during the summer. What sounds happy and carefree soon shows as a complex living situation full of complicated relationships and irresponsible adults and lost children. The film will be screened in English language with Czech subtitles.