Past events
VR: Cosmogonic & Notes on Blindness
Two unique VR projects address, each from a different angle, how new technologies relate to the theme of humanity. While in Cosmogonic the VR headset is a gateway to a dystopian future, Notes on Blindness by contrast shows VR technology as a path to deeper understanding between people.
Colum McCann: Apeirogon
DOX presents the long-awaited launch of the Czech edition of a novel that conquered the world. Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon – named for a polygon with an infinite number of sides – celebrates the power of stories, friendship, and humanity.
Empathy as a tool and goal
Experience the story as the international project Narrative 4 works with it. For educators, we have prepared a lecture by Irish trainers of the Narrative 4 methodology and a discussion with Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan.
Words to Wake You Up
How can writers respond to a variety of contemporary issues and future crises? Writers Radka Denemarková and Liz Jensen, along with Professor Morten L. Kringelbach aboard the Gulliver Airship, will discuss the power of literature and narrative to enable us to survive.
The Title of the Book
The title is part of a book’s face, and encountering this face is like a finger wandering on a map of an unknown island. In this art workshop for children and adults aged 5 and up, we will try to combine imagination, the artistic possibilities of different materials and long-lost books.
Matteo Pericoli: Literary Architecture
We often hear that stories have an internal structure or architecture. What do we mean by that? Can you build a story? Architect, illustrator, and teacher Matteo Pericoli founded the Laboratory of Literary Architecture, a fascinating project exploring literature as architecture.
The Infamous Beauty exhibition with curator
The work of the renowned American photographer Andres Serrano deals with social issues, sexuality, racial intolerance and dark aspects of human being. Join curator Otto M. Urban for a guided tour through both parts of the exhibition: a set of 60 works entitled Beauty.
Poet(h)ics of Space
Join this special creative writing workshop on board the Gulliver Airship with poet and prose author Aleš Šteger, one of the most prominent European literary voices today! Your words will be both words and images
Architecture of Stories
Have you ever thought of literature as architecture? What is the “architecture of a story”? How does it stand? Can it be built? Join architect, illustrator, teacher Matteo Pericoli and architect, poet, and visual artist Anna Beata Háblová in this exciting exploration of literature as architecture.
