Can We Help You? | Marika Smreková

› Fri 6/5/2022 10:00

After eleven years at Příhrádek, GAMPA is now saying goodbye to its exhibition haven near the Pardubice Castle. From this September on, please look for us in the area of the reconstructed Automatic Mills in the neighbourhood of the Gočár Gallery, as well as the two new institutions – Automatic Mills Foundation and Sféra.

A screaning of Habima Fuchs art film followed by a discussion with her and Lucie Váchová, curator of the project By the Way.

"The nature of the universe, which holds
the center still and moves all else around it,
begins here as if from its turning-post."
(Dante, Canto 27, 106-117)

In Cristina Maldonado's School of Magical Giving, we re-learn that giving, receiving, and retributing are magical doings that create the world. The temporary artistic intervention is part of the gallery archive until January 15, 2023. In the gallery, you can read several performative books based on real events of magical giving. In these books you will find a record of what happens when we grasp the moment of giving and receiving from strangers and loved ones.

One-on-one performance / imaginary journey / phone-call expedition / part of the Intermezzo opening. Reservation required!

The spectator is invited to join the unique shopping experience of contemplating the supermarket universe and re-imagining connection with the objects that can be bought there. The spectator will be guided by the fictional Astronaut via mobile phone by story-telling, walking and following simple, playful instructions and tasks.

This year, the gallery space is being transformed into an open archive, diary or a background for activities that take place and will take place outside it. It becomes a space for encounters, sharing and intertwining. The opening evening will include a sound performance of the American musician based in Berlin, Max Eilbacher.

Introduction of the project Can We Help You? and Andreas Gajdošík's artist presentation.

Art laboratory with artist Nikola Brabcová for those who want to try preparing and mixing their own colors from natural pigments.

What if there were a form of art that is not created primarily as a physical art work, instead representing the result of a collaboration with a specific social group or community?

Andreas Gajdošík is the first guest artist of the program layer Can We Help You? During his stay in Pardubice, he decided to help by cleaning the streets, river banks and statues.

Dutch artist Janneke van der Putten will introduce her work and her upcoming workshop ‘Sunrise to Sunrise’. The objective of her project is to produce in-situ performances which will be recorded in different places in (and around) Pardubice, responding to natural environments, architectures and sites and investigating a cyclic perception of time.

GAMPA traditionally participates in the Pardubice Museum Night, which is part of the Museum Nights Festival. Visit the exhibition space transformed into an open archive of art records that work with the topics of care, cooperation and slowing down.

Singer, performer and visual artist Janneke van der Putten proposes a 24-hour performance and sensorial-based workshop, with the passage of time as inspiration: starting at sunrise and ending at the sunrise of the following day.

Let us remove our social stickers and create a shared space for people without age restrictions. For parents and their children and people without obligations, seniors and teenagers, for people who work or care for the evening, and those who can go to culture without a time limit. Our program will be about intersections in social gatherings, talking, trying to understand people with different life experiences, babysitting together, creative workshops, cultural activism, or learning about the benefits of social diversity.

Nikola Brabcová invites you to the open artist's studio Water Lily Tea. The Water Lily Tea in GAMPA will be open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5pm to 7pm, June 7–30, 2022. The studio emphasizes the experience and the artistic process. Self-creation becomes therapy and treatment, alleviates anxieties, opens the way to change stereotypes, expands one's own possibilities, harmonizes. Come to see, experiment for a while or visit it more often. Alone, with you children or with friends.

Meet with Habima Fuchs on the day of the summer solstice near the city by the open fire (see the map). Opportunity to have a rest in nature, but also to symbolically honor the element providing just like the sun light and warmth. The artist will create an improvised "outdoor workshop" designed to monitor and share the process of creating and maintaining the camp fire needed to transform ceramic bowls or shards, the surface of which will gradually change under the influence of heat.

Wander along the river. Walking with the stream or heading against it? Flow with time or going backwards?

The artist Lucie Králíková planned the journey through the Eagle Mountains not only as a journey through the landscape at the border of our country, but at the same time she perceives it as an opportunity to honor places, nature and regions that are seemingly on the fringes of the attention and interest of the general public. The pilgrimage will be a tribute to the "edge" of the country, to people who once had to leave their homes and to those living here outside the big centers. At least for a while and symbolically, they will try to revive the often forgotten and slowly decaying church buildings, to which believers and pilgrims used to go.

Who will sit at the typewriters? We are looking for participants in the analogue percussion performance of the poet Pavel Novotný, which will take place on Saturday, September 10, in the public spaces of Pardubice. Anyone who is open to new experiences is welcome. No previous poetic, literary, rhythmic or otherwise artistic experience is required.

Nová zvuková performance respektovaného britského hudebníka ve specifickém prostředí Galerie města Pardubic slibuje silný akustický zážitek.

Symbolic move of GAMPA gallery from one side of river to the other one. Project lead by the team of architects Final_Final. Let's explore memories and different environments connected with GAMPA's presence, past and futures.

Within the program layer Can We Help you? Denisa Langrová will volunteer in an asylum for abused and abandoned animals. She will assist in the care of animals, while at the same time he will continue to research the activities of various entities striving for an empathic approach to non-human animals and their liberation throughout history. At the end of her stay in Pardubice, Denisa is preparing a moderated discussion on the topic Velká Pardubice – the most demanding horse race in Europe (suffering and big business).

Artist and performer Hana Kokšalová offers a series of free workshops to everyone who would like to try working with the tools of documentary theatre. The workshops are intended for the age group of 12-20+ years, however those interested in all other age groups are also welcome. During the workshops, we will experiment with various theater and art methods that can be used to tell authentic personal stories. We will try physical theatre, dance, work with light, text and props.

Adam Vačkář's educational workshop with elementary school children on the topic of synergy between man and nature. The author takes children back to the forest, teaches them to perceive their surroundings and process the fine fabric of feelings. Art, through education, mediates the fundamental relationship between man and nature through visuality and creative activity with natural objects.

During the course of one week, pupils at Základní škola Srdcovka (Srdcovka Elementary School) will explore various electro-acoustic phenomena through a series of handmade instruments, as well as other sound objects. 

A visual performance, which proposes to the audience to experience an alternative model of coexistence of people and inanimate entities. It discovers new relations between daily objects through their materiality and presence in one space, which gain an equivalent value as presence of a human body.