MICROLAB 2024
WHAT? a series of zine-making / poetry / experimental theory workshops, literary seminars & lectures, music improvisation gigs, film screenings, fiction readings...
WHEN? 10 afternoons/evenings, Mon 14 Oct to Thu 24 Oct, 4 pm to 10 pm
WHERE? Student Council premises inside the Hybernska 4 Campus, Room E--Sklep
HOW MUCH? Entrance free, all welcome.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Mon Oct 14
18.00-20.00 OPENING VERNISSAGE
A general introduction of the Microlab team and 10-day programme
20.00-22.00 EVENING SPECIAL
Join us for an evening of experimental movies and improvised readings from samizdat publications
Tue Oct 15
18.00-20.00 MUSIC IMPROVISATION: Roksan Mandel
The first instalment of a music improvisation workshop, led by pianist Roksan Mandel
20.00-22.00 FICTION READING Equus Press (Louis Armand, Ken Nash, Phillip O'Neill, Michael Rowland)
The four Prague-based horsemen of Equus Press will read from their recent and forthcoming works. Louis Armand will read from Anizar (2024), Ken Nash from Life Raft (2020), Phillip O'Neil from Joker Wild (work in progress), and Michael Rowland from Infinity in Bits (2021); introduced by Equus managing editor, David Vichnar; more info: equuspress.com
Wed Oct 16
16.00-18.00 WORKSHOP: The Artful Magazine (Klára Přečková)
TBA
Thu Oct 17
16.00-18.00 WORKSHOP: Zine-making (Sandra Pasławska)
The first instalment of a zine-making workshop led by Sandra Pasławska, co-editor of KROTCH magazine, focused on graphic design & collage production
19.00-21.00 WORKSHOP: Poetry (Marko Thull)
Join us for a poetry-writing workshop led by Marko Thull
21.00-23.00 UKRAINE FILM NIGHT: Donbass (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2018)
Join us for a screening of Sergei Loznitsa's legendary black-comedy war film from Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region
Fri Oct 18
16.00-18.00 LECTURE: Tyrus Miller
A lecture on the temporality of the avant-garde, with focus on Georg Lukács vis-a-vis late socialist and contemporary art, and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as montage history-writing
18.00-20.00 MUSIC IMPROVISATION: Roksan Mandel
The second instalment of a music improvisation workshop, led by pianist Roksan Mandel
20.00-22.00 LECTURE: Tobias Jirous
A talk and memoir-type presentation on Prague actionism both past and present
Sat Oct 19
16.00-18.00 PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP (Daniel Tebano)
Join us for a performance improv workshop led by UK-based artist Daniel Tebano
18.00-20.00 LIVE STREAM: from New York (Jo Blin)
TBA
20.00-22.00 FILM PREMIERE (Michael Rowland)
TBA
Sun Oct 20
19:00 Durational performance (Daniel Tebano)
A one-off special performance by UK-based artist Daniel Tebano
Mon Oct 21
16.00-18.00 LECTURE: Andrei Codrescu
A lecture on how "exquisite corpse invented FaceBook"
18.00-20.00 MUSIC IMPROVISATION: Roksan Mandel
The third instalment of a music improvisation workshop, led by pianist Roksan Mandel
20.00-22.00 POETRY NIGHT: Michael Rowland
TBA
Tue Oct 22
18.00-20.00 WORKSHOP: Zine-making (Sandra Pasławska)
The second instalment of a zine-making workshop led by Sandra Pasławska, co-editor of KROTCH magazine, focused on graphic design & collage production
20.00-22.00 UKRAINE FILM NIGHT: Twenty Days in Mariupol (dir. Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)
Join us for a screening of Mstyslav Chernov's documentary about the first three weeks of the siege of Mariupol in February-March 2022
Wed Oct 23
16.00-18.00 TBA
TBA
Thu Oct 24
16.00-18.00 MICRO-ORGANON: Experimental Pedagogy (Andrew Wilson & Elijah Young)
A seminar featuting a generative, randomized process of producing and selecting its theoretical terminology under investigation, then a collective elaboration on the chosen concepts with visual aids, artistic materials or media, images and written expositions, the ultimate aim being the fabrication of a large-scale concept board
18.00-20.00 MUSIC IMPROVISATION: Roksan Mandel
The fourth and final instalment of a music improvisation workshop, led by pianist Roksan Mandel
20.00-22.00 PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL PRE-NIGHT (Zofia Baldyga, Olga Stehlíková, Bartholomew Ryan)
See main PMF programme webpage!