AFTERLAND / ZEMĚ ZA

 

Studio of Fine Arts 1 cordially invites you to the opening of the garden behind the GAMPA gallery in Pardubice, which was created as part of the studio's semester project. The students of the studio participated in the construction of the garden and created several site-specific objects, interventions and performances that will be on display during the opening.

 

“Brownfields” refer to land, sites or buildings that are not used in any way, and which often arise as a by-product - a remnant of construction, industrial, military or other activities. At the same time, urban brownfields are becoming a lucrative investment opportunity for the construction of residential apartments or office complexes, but at the same time they could become public space again (a park or urban oasis - a place to relax on hot summer days).  It is this possibility of brownfields as potential public spaces for gathering or community gardening that is the focus of the project AFTERLAND , which creates a temporary garden behind the GAMPA gallery and addresses, among other things, the question of how to relate to these types of (un)places from an artistic and civic position.

 

 

The opening ceremony and initiation of the garden will take place on Friday 23 May 2025 from 16:00 to 20:00. The programme will include a presentation of student projects and the first common dinner.

 

                                    P R O G R A M

༗ 16:00 – 22:00

installation «What remains» (Anna Solianyk & Daniela Večerková)

༗ 16:00 – 17:00

workshop: How to make your own clay (Niels Erhardsen)

༗ 16:00 – 20:00

 workshop: Making seed bombs and the role of soil in the process of adaptation to the climate change (ekocentrum Huslík)

༗ 16:30 – 17:00

 performance: May You Be Among the Survivors (Ruta Richter Pu, Lucie Vrbíková)

༗ 17:00 – 22:00 

processual performance: Capturing the Presence in Stone (Bianka Barniaková) 

༗ 17:30 – 18:30

launch of the AFTERLAND garden and TONDA compost +  guided tour through the garden

༗ 19:00 – 22:00 

lighting the pizza oven + fire

 

SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION (artists and interventions):

༗ Anna Solianyk & Daniela Večerková  «What remains» (perforative installation dealing with the GAMPAs soil mixture as living archive of our collective impact)

༗ Yania Arlova, Kristina Anežka Hlavinková, Kristina Kouklová: Community compost Tonda 

༗ Bianka Barniaková: Capturing Presence in Stone (processual performance)

༗ Kristýna Canelanisipeanu: Drinking pots for birds (ceramic installations)

༗ Niels Erhardsen: How to make your own clay and Gardening (workshop & performance)

༗ Eliška Gogolová: A little wool sculpture

༗ Karolína Kopřivová: Watch that! (installation and objects from the willow wicker)

༗ Júlia Guerola Maurí: As long as you come back (ceramic water-catching objects)

༗ Ella McKinney: Sediment (object from clay, wood)

༗ Klara Polajnar: Spirits of Afterland (temporary clay sculptures)

༗ Ruta Richter Pu, Lucie Vrbíková:  May You Be Among the Survivors (performance)

༗ Florián Synák: Fire (site-specific installation)

༗ Barbora Tetaurová: A Little Book about Burdock + Herbal incense from the plants collected in the brownfield surroundings

 

Realization of the project:
GAMPA gallery (Vojtěch Novák, Ondřej Uherek, Lucie Oplíštilová, Nikola Březinová)
authors of the concept of AFTERLAND garden:  Amálie Vystavělová & Kateřina Žák Konvalinová
graphic design: Kristýna Canelanisipeanu & Kateřina Žák Konvalinová

thanks and credits :
ekocentre Paleta 
Tomáš Moravec @TimmysBaskets
supervision: Viktor Procházka & Jiří Žák