Monthly Archives: Červen 2022

My new installation called Carriage will be visible this summer at urban intervention Festival M3 on different railway stations in Prague 15. 6.—30. 9. 2022. The reality of railway station buildings, railway tracks and their surroundings co-creates the clear boundaries of the concept of this year’s Festival m³ / Art in space. In their immediate vicinity, levels of meaning immediately emerge – social, political-aesthetic, architectural, historical, urban, ecological. We can probably generally agree on the statement that the railway station environment is typical of a peculiar poetics. This is why, for example, in Jaroslav Rudiš’s recently published book, we can also encounter critical comparisons of today’s state-of-the-art railway stations to a “sparrow’s nest”, a “hospital autopsy room”, a “mouse hole made of glass and steel”, a “cemetery”, a “shopping mall”, a “horrendous department store”, a “marketplace”, a “circus tent”, and, in the opposite sense, a romantic memory of a railway station as a “cathedral of transport”. We absolutely understand the emotional colouring of these expressions because, from our own experience, we can easily recall stations that are tiny, oversized, designed for freight transport, insensitively modernised, abandoned, overgrown, closed and dilapidated. Behind these visible signs, however, there are usually more hidden levels, sometimes as a result of rather problematic processes. → more