Visual stage at Pohoda 2022
24. June 2022
Thursday, 7. 7. 2022
6:00 pm – 6:35 pm
Transart Communication 2022 performance: Eleni Poulou (GR/UK) & Zsolt Sőrés (HU): Astro-Noetic Space (Spheric)
Eleni Pouolou is a member of the legendary post-punk group The Fall. Zsolt Sőrés is a noise musician and composer. For Pohoda's Sphere, they created a site-specific project called Astro-Noetic Space (Spheric), which they describe as a unique, intuitive, and acoustic meditation about space-time, coexistence, past, present, and future through text collage and sound recollection.
Friday, 8. 7. 2022
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Kids in the Sphere (workshop)
Mornings in the Sphere will belong to children who will conquer this space with their ease and playfulness. They will be accompanied by Zuzana Didová and Nikola Váňová.
3:50 pm – 4:50 pm
Transart Communication 2022 performance: István Kovács (HU)
István Kovács (1964) has worked with performance art for 34 years and he is one of the most prominent Central European artists. Kovács creates vivid images with an existential touch and analyses the effects of human existence, life, birth, and rebirth. His focus is on the approach of contemporary people to these fundamental questions, combining artificial and natural materials. Humor and irony are often part of his broad and liberating palette of expression. He lives and works in Monore (Hungary).
6:10 pm – 7:10 pm
Tomáš Janypka in the Sphere (SK)
Tomáš Janypka (*1989) is a creator, choreographer, and performer. He graduated from Devised and Physical Theatre Studio at the JAMU Academy in Brno. His main domain is gentleness, openness, and the ability to collaborate with artists from different fields. He deals with questions about our intimate experiences, body perception and its limits, and the weight of things in the physical and spiritual plane. He ponders on how he can share these experiences physically and emotionally in a shared space with the viewer. He is fascinated by authentic and unique moments in public space which he captures in the form of photography and text.
Tomáš Janypka has already entered into dialogue with the Sphere during various phases and situations. He will do the same at the festival where he will engage in a dialogue with the Sphere and the festival visitors.
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Aunaki Collective (SK)
The au.naki collective is a is a free-form performative group formed under the pedagogical guidance of Viktor Fuček as part of the Body Performance course at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. It is a living organism, changing its form and the boundaries within which it operates. The group is inspired by the techniques of Japanese Butoh movement theatre.
10:50 pm – 11:50 pm
Astrophysicists in the Sphere: From Dust Grains to Galaxies, hosted by Mgr. Patrik Čechvala and Mgr. Michal Šturc
The symbol of the vault of heaven – the dome with the Synagogue's star, will be replaced by an open sky. We will watch the unstoppable changeability of the sky, the stars, and everything above us through a round aperture. After dark, we will turn the visitors' attention toward the sky and perhaps even higher, up to the stars. Visitors will be guided through the galaxies by astrophysicists Roman Nagy, Patrik Čechvala, and Michal Šturc.
Saturday, 9. 7. 2022
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Kids in the Sphere (workshop)
Mornings in the Sphere will belong to children who will conquer this space with their ease and playfulness. They will be accompanied by Zuzana Didová and Nikola Váňová.
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Peter Kalmus (SK)
Peter Kalmus constantly participates in socially engaged art but also civic activities. He is a resolute opponent of any kind of totalitarianism and his work is a combination of unrestrained actions, political protests, and long-term artistic projects lasting several years. His frequent creative method is accumulation – the accumulation of banal everyday objects which he puts into a new context.
The modified bicycles on which the author rode around the airport in the past were also created with this technique. This year, the audience can again look forward to a visual and sound experience performed by Peter Kalmus and his newest work.
3:50 pm – 4:50 pm
Transart Communication 2022 performance: Rokko Juhász (SK): Black Hole
Rokko Juhász (*1963) is an intermedia-oriented performer, poet, and organizer. He has staged hundreds of performances and published seven books of experimental poetry. Since 1987, he has worked as a curator, publisher, workshop facilitator, editor, and organizer. Under the auspices of Transart Communication, he organized 33 international festivals of multimedia and performance art. Since 2009 he has held dozens of workshops on performance art in Slovakia, Chile, Israel, India, Mexico, Hong Kong, and China.
6:10 pm – 7:10 pm
Contemporary Culture in Our Era: with debaters Michal Kaščák, Ilona Németh, Mária Beňačková Rišková and host Július Barczi.
How do art and culture reflect the events that have affected the entire population? What responsibility do artists have in times of crisis? Visual artist Ilona Németh, musician and director of Pohoda festival Michal Kaščák, curator but also design and architecture expert Mária Beňačková Rišková will search for answers to these questions in the Sphere. The host of the discussion will be Július Barczi.
10:50 pm – 11:50 pm
Astrophysicists in the Sphere: From the Beginning of the Universe to Its Extinction, hosted by Dr. Roman Nagy, and Mgr. Michal Šturc
The symbol of the vault of heaven – the dome with the Synagogue's star, will be replaced by an open sky. We will watch the unstoppable changeability of the sky, the stars, and everything above us through a round aperture. After dark, we will turn the visitors' attention toward the sky and perhaps even higher, up to the stars. Visitors will be guided through the galaxies by astrophysicists Roman Nagy, Patrik Čechvala, and Michal Šturc.
Outside of SPHÉRA / ESET (OPEN) SPACE / Visual stage – throughout the festival
Matúš Lányi (SK): Panteon
a monumental drawing in the tent camp
Matúš Lányi’s first large-scale floor plans were floor plans of cathedrals. These were realized on the surfaces of sports fields, where there was a symbolic overlap of the sacral and sports space, and a comparison was made of their functions and rules as a certain metaphor for the presence of rituals of society. The currently implemented series of floor plans responds to the social and political situation and also the state of democracy in our country. It features the long-term presence of the phenomena of corruption of political elites, the infiltration of the oligarchy into social processes, and the protection of their economic and power interests by manipulated judicial or security forces of the state.
The drawings represent a system of floor plans of residential buildings, whose owners, tenants or users are connected, accused or tried in corruption or political cases followed by media. The floor plans of these properties reveal at first sight the privacy of these people, but it is also possible to perceive them as a form of archaeological, architectural, and socio-political probe into the period of agony and frustration of society from the decade of the ongoing struggle for the functioning of elementary democracy in our country. The drawing thus acquires a sarcastic significance and aims to draw the viewer’s attention to current social and political events in our country.
The drawing shows the floor plans of the villa and its facilities of a currently tried oligarch, a convicted businessman renting lucrative housing, and prosecuted persons: a former honorary consul, a former interior minister and former multiple prime minister of the Slovak Republic and his girlfriends in a 1:1 scale.