BEYOND EVERYDAYNESS
11. May – 6. June 2010, Prague (Czech Republic)
Gallery of the National Technical Library
The festive opening speech was introduced by Ondřej Černý, a director of The National Theatre Prague, followed by speeches of the chief curator Igor Kovaćevič and main managers. The opening was richly visited by students of architecture and general public. The location of the exhibition in the National Technical Library was a very good decision as the building is surrounded by many technical universities, mainly the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University, due to which fact, the exhibition caught many individuals from the target group. Overall, the exhibition had more than 1200 visitors in the Czech Republic.
Also the accompanying programme in the Czech Republic was very rich and drew attention of various groups: theatre practitioners, students, architects, performers or even conceptual artists. The conference “Thinking the Space” introduced diverse contemporary approaches to theatre space from experimental theatre practices of Jerzy Grotowsky to contemporary work of Berlin based group Raumlabor or unique Norway architect Espen Rahlf.
Accompanying programme
Theatre for 21st century – visions and possibilities
Exhibition of student proposals for the new theatre in Ljubljana which were created in the framework of the TACE project Workshop II (Visions and possibilities).
10 panels were exhibited in the foyer of the library – one of the most populated and busy places in the building. Thousands of students saw creativity of their colleagues from Central European countries and found brief information about the TACE project.
14. 5. The most important works of theatre architecture in Dresden
Guided excursion through centre of contemporary art Festspielhaus Hellerau, which inspired artists and architects from the whole Europe and of Semper’s Opera house, which is regarded to be the most beautiful opera house in the world. Transportation from Prague by bus was organized by TACE. More than 60 individuals participated.
18. 5. / 10:00 – 13:00 / Theatre for 21st century – presentation of the winning project
Presentation of the project awarded in the competition organized by TACE. In the competition 68 proposal participated – all results of the TACE Workshop II (Visions and possibilities). International committee of experts attended the jury (Jacques Plante(FR), Oren Sagiv(IZ), David Vávra(CZ), Radovan Lipus(CZ), Monica Raya(MEX), Osamu Okamura(JP)). The awarded project was created by students of Ljubljana Architecture Faculty: Alen Hausmeister, Mina Hirsman, Ales Kacin, Jana Kocjan, Katja Lozar.
31. 5. / 18:00 / Thinking the Space - conference: contemporary art and architecture
Series of lectures and presentations by architects, artists and scenographers with discussion: Oren Sagiv /IZ/, 3RW ARCHITECTS /NOR/, Antoni Ramon /SP/, Zbygnew Szumski /PL/ Led by Sodja Lotker. Interpretation to the Czech language was provided.
31. 5. / 18:00 / New Scene of the National Theatre
opening night for the book about the building of the New Scene of the National Theatre Prague with projection of archival documentary Nation for itself of the director Maxmilián Petřík.