Katanari (SK): SANCTUARIES
(Visual installation)
A sequence of installations that transform hunting stands into oasis of safety. They provide protection and the promise of peace and calmness. They represent a kind of nest, den or sanctuary.
Acquaintances (ICE): 2X2 ADVENTURE TOURS: SPATIAL PERCEPTION
(Immersive audio performance)
Authors playfully explore our expectations from space and the way we interpret them. They offer us an opportunity to interact with our environment in alternative ways.
Mila Haugová / Markéta Plachá (SK): PEREGRINATIO PERPETUA
(Installation of poetry – Poetic installation)
Fragment 2: To Send Out a Sign
Only fragments make wholeness. Eternal wandering is a journey to self. The powerful, feminine, fundamental verses of Mila Haugová materialize in the hands of the stage designer Markéta Plachá.
Martina Morger (LIE): WELL
(Visual installation)
The installation, made of mostly man-made material, resembles an altar, a water shrine or a collection of something very special. The spring serves for rest and contemplation, inviting travellers to simply stay by it for a while.
Katarína Bajkayová (SK): OMPHALOS
(Object)
An unglazed stoneware object symbolically elaborates the idea of the ancient Greek object Omphalos (the centre – the navel of the world) and directs it towards the present. It is a reaction to the contemporary identity crisis.
Mila Haugová / Markéta Plachá (SK): PEREGRINATIO PERPETUA
(Installation of poetry – Poetic installation)
Fragment 3: To Breath Light
Only fragments make wholeness. Eternal wandering is a journey to self. The powerful, feminine, fundamental verses of Mila Haugová materialize in the hands of the stage designer Markéta Plachá.
Dominik Hlinka (SK): THE WAY TO MOTIVE
(Live atelier and painting exhibition)
The author exhibits paintings he created with a time gap after returning from his travels. He is looking for new ways and strategies for his work. By its destruction, the transferred digital aesthetics responds to the moment of invisible growth, changeability and movement of vegetation.
Oleksandra Melnychuk (UA): ESKAPISM
(Visual installation)
The sculpture installation in the tree hollows focuses on the connection between man and nature and on man’s role in the natural cycle. The installation works with the phenomenon of pareidolia, in which the human brain imaginatively shapes the forms it registers.
Michal Paľko (SK): TINTINNABULUM MISCELANEUM
(Audio installation)
A sequence of sound installations composed from the authentic sounds of local bells transforms churches and bell towers into places of relaxation and recharging.
Oto Hudec (SK): LONG LONG ROAD
(Visual installation)
The installation highlights the friction points that emerge at strategic border crossings between areas of relative prosperity in the west and the migratory flow coming from the south. The artist creates fragile figures made of cotton and wood, and films their journey across deserts, seas and the physical anti-migration barriers.
Daniela Krajčová, Oto Hudec (SK): CARAVAN PROJECT
(Short films projection)
Visual artists Daniela Krajčová and Oto Hudec have been mapping the environment in Roma communities across Slovakia for several years and they have been running multi-day workshops focused on non-traditional animation techniques for Roma children from these communities. These short animated films are the result of a workshop with children from the Roma community in Bátovce.
Ján Adamove (SK): TWELVE STIKS
(Ascetic installation)
An ascetic installation of 12 sticks that complement and distort the landscape, spot-mark and rhythmise the route and encourage to touch, to grasp, to carry, to photograph…
Martina Morger (LIE): BAT
(Audio-visual installation)
An audio-visual installation of soft piercing tones coming from the trees accompanies the pilgrims and walkers on their journey through the forest, with each day recalled as deja vu.
Katanari (SK): SANCTUARIES
Visual installation
A sequence of installations that transform hunting stands into oasis of safety. They provide protection and the promise of peace and calmness. They represent a kind of nest, den or sanctuary.
Mila Haugová / Markéta Plachá (SK): PEREGRINATIO PERPETUA
(Installation of poetry – Poetic installation)
Fragment 4: Consecrated Words
Only fragments make wholeness. Eternal wandering is a journey to self. The powerful, feminine, fundamental verses of Mila Haugová materialize in the hands of the stage designer Markéta Plachá.
Michal Paľko (SK): TINTINNABULUM MISCELANEUM
(Audio installation)
A sequence of sound installations composed from the authentic sounds of local bells transforms churches and bell towers into places of relaxation and recharging.
David Demjanovič (SK): EAU THE SPACE
(Olfactory instalaltion)
The installation of a laboratory-made fragrance designed for astronaut training permeats the the chapel’s space parleying the contrast between the spiritual and the secular, the Christian theory of the origin of the world and the Big Bang theory, as well as the significance of fragrances used in ceremonies to evoke a spiritual atmosphere. Symbolically, it also adds to the perception of the starry sky during the three-day pilgrimage.
Peter Kollár (SK): 365
(Space installation)
The 365 installation thematizes humility in its various forms. It uses identical objects arranged in space in geometrically precise lines, but always in different relationships and constellations.
Debris company (SK): CRESCENDO
(Performance)
The visual-musical-motoric essay in audiovisual language develops the notion of “crescendo” as a gradual increase, layering, rising, expanding towards a climax multiplied in one abstract feeling that cannot be specified in a narrative.
Ružena Zajacová (SK): DEAD / LIVING FOREST
(Visual installation)
The installation explores the importance of dead wood for living organisms. The natural structure of tree bark comes alive under the rays of light. The installation takes place in a forest, as well as in an interior that evokes a forest.
Michal Paľko (SK): SONGS AND LAMENTS
(Concert)
The solo concerto is the result of the author’s continuous research of old songs. He is fascinated by the strict formal structure of the song format, especially in terms of defining the space and time in which a song has been created, echoed, became a tradition…
