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4+4 Days in Motion 2018 / Phenomenological Recipes / Installations and Performances

by Jeff Buehler, on Dec 4, 2018 2:33:53 PM

Six Prague College students and one lecturer from the School of Art and Design presented their personal work this October in the 23rd International Festival of Contemporary Art 4+4 Days in Motion. This critically acclaimed festival extends over a span of eight days and makes use of non-traditional festival spaces in Prague, engaging with local and international audiences.

The work by Prague College students was exhibited in the section called Phenomenological Recipes, and it was curated by lecturer Cristina Maldonado. In this exhibiting place, located in the 3rd floor of the Desfoursky Palace, the work of our students shared the space with MA Directing of Devised and Object Theater students of the Performing Arts Academy of Prague (DAMU). Hundreds of people had the opportunity to visit this floor full of performances and installations.

Maldonado helped prepare the students through workshops in their free time after classes, and they had the opportunity to exchange and collaborate with students of DAMU. Each of the students was mentored to develop a work based on a site-specific situation or to expand, adapt and develop further a project they had initiated in their classes at Prague College.



Isabela Juchneiwicz | A Room in Flux
BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media

Isabela continued to develop work she presented in her previous semester at Prague College. She used the same principle but explored the venue in order to create a new composition with video projections and reflections. She also added a sound track which engaged the viewer with instructions guiding him or her to interact with the elements in the space.

Isabela Juchneiwicz(1) Isabela Juchneiwicz(3)


Ayoub Motaraf | To be here or there
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Ayoub explored the space and chose to work with the transitional areas of the main staircase, creating a video edition that presented confusing perspectives of the steps and contradictory directions. He projected the video on top of a mind map illustration that dealt with questions about direction from a philosophical perspective. These two works were overlapped and shown in a small private compartment.

Ayoub Motaraf (3) Ayoub Motaraf (1)


Lamija Čehajić | Soft Spoken: Methodology of Care
BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media

Lamija created an interactive instruction based installation — a ritual to leave behind a secret. Lamija worked with the protective properties of wool to cover nails, and aggressive elements in the space. She invited people to wrap objects and texts in wool, phrases connected to their own ideas related to the conflict of harming others and or being harmed. The installation built up day-by-day through the participation of visitors.

Lamija Cehajic (3) Lamija Cehajic (1)


Maja Jurše |  Fluid Persona
BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Maja worked with a site-specific approach, multiplying an element that she found in the space: the stickers of cartoon characters pasted in a black tiled bathroom. These became a motif that was projected and filmed several times. It created ghostly reflections in the small room. The projection offered the viewer a specific angle in which she could see the projections in her own face, acquiring the reflections of the characters in her own persona.

Maja Jurse


Keya Singh | Blind date
BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media

Keya created a performance composed by a biographical video which used the specific architecture of the venue. Through a meeting with a stranger she shared basic personal information using everyday objects that belonged to her, as well as documents that defined her identity. Keya passed these objects through a small window between two small rooms. In this way the exchange happened in privacy as the person could read them and watch the video, creating an idea of who the artist was, but never being able to look at her directly.

Keya Singh (2) Keya Singh (1)


Tanvi Shettigar | Production Assistant & Fine Dining
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Tanvi researched an installation related to the mechanism of power and control over others. In the end this installation was not exhibited but became the initial approach to her final project in her Foundation program. She was invited to perform in a one-to-one interactive performance: Fine Dining directed by Eva Rosemarijn, who graduated from DAMU. She performed for three days, 4-6 hours each day, as part of the festival. Tanvi also took care of logistics and production, and she was the contact between the festival’s organizers and the leading lecturer.

Tanvi Shettigar (3) Tanvi Shettigar (2)

Topics:Research & Creative PracticeSchool of Art & Design

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