PRAGUE - The third edition of the biennial In the Matter of Art will culminate in a series of performances, excursions, guided tours, debates and lectures during September. The programme is mainly concentrated in the Biennial Centre at the National Gallery Prague, Veletržní palác, and reflects the themes of the exhibition - rural labour and transformation, the mental health of the working class and sustainable approaches to agriculture.
The final programme of the Biennial will open with on Wednesday 4 September discussion and lecture on the future of agriculture with experts from research and practice, led by artist and researcher Tomas Uhnák. In the framework of the Prague Art Week Biennial will present 7 September a discussion on the transformation of artistic and curatorial strategiesthat have pursued political objectives in recent years or decades, and special guided tour with the director tranzit.cz Tereza Stejskalová. Further guided tours in both Czech and English will take place throughout the month. Curatorial tours will be led by Aleksei Borisionok and Katalin Erdődi, curators of this year's Biennial.
18 September will be held excursions and discussions in the lesser-known Prague Cooperative Museum. The programme will link the ideas of historical solidarity struggles with contemporary initiatives. 21 September the Biennial will offer a unique perspective on disappearing post-war architecture. Excursion and guided tour with the architect Zdenka Nováková and curator of the Architecture Collection of the National Gallery in Prague Helena Huber-Doud takes the audience into the administrative building of a former foreign trade company Chemapol in Vršovice, Prague. In the nearby cultural centre Petrogradwhich is also awaiting closure and demolition, will follow Discussion about the link between the socialist foreign trade enterprise and post-revolutionary agribusiness. 23 September will take place at the Centre for Contemporary Art Prague Artalk debate on cultural unions and self-organization with the curator Aleksei Borisionok, member of the Slovak organization Kulturné odbory Eliška Mazalánová, an artist Jirka Skala and Polish curator and writer Kuba Szreder, moderated by Anežka Bartlová.
On the occasion Czech translation of the book Raving by American author McKenzie Wark with 26 September in the Korz of the Trade Fair Palace in the National Gallery in Prague will take place live video lecture by the authorjointly organised by tranzit.cz and the Lunchmeat Festival. Final part series of performative readings björnson's collective will take place later that evening after dark in the Biennial's exhibition space in the Great Hall of the Trade Fair Palace. Back in the Petrograd space the collective will 28 September will take place screening of the film C-TV (If I Tell You I Like You...) about a fictional inclusive TV show by Austrian female directors Eva Egermann and Cordula Thymfollowed by Discussion with an academic Kateřina Kolářová a closing party.
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