WELCOME TO HARD TIMES
18 Oct 2018 – 4 Feb 2019
We’re open to all, now also you
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Poupětova 1, Prague 7
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You don’t have to know much to know that the world has seen better days, so what are we doing about it? What are you doing about it? Apathy is one of the many issues we’re not talking about.
But why don’t people care about what’s going on in the world?
a. It doesn’t affect them directly
b. They can’t do anything about it.
c. They’ve seen it all before.
Instead, we go to the gym...
As a society we’ve never been sicker or more obsessed with exercise than we are today. New fitness concepts are being launched every day, but they’re all much of a muchness, really. Instead of the 7-minute workout there’s the 6-minute workout, instead of having to choose between yoga or acrobatics, they’ve been combined. But now there is a workout that challenges your body, your mind and your morals, and it might even be good for the world.
A workout that forces you to take on the big issues threatening our world every day - you can’t ignore them in this gym! Sweat out your guilt and your obliviousness, train your awareness, face the beasts head on. Who knows, maybe you’ll get a six-pack, or maybe you’ll come up with a solution to ocean pollution, or poverty.
In this interactive installation the space will be transformed into a gym, where you work out your muscles as you grapple with the issues facing the world. After your workout you’llfeel invigorated, informed and maybe even willing to be a little bit more aware of what’s really going on in the world.
Exhibition Concept: Erik Kessels
Artists:
Elinor Milchan - My Love Answer Me project
Antuan Rodriguez - Left or Right project curated by Marisa Caichiolo
Viktor Frešo
The visit of artist Elinor Milchan in Prague has been supported by the Embassy of the State of Israel in Prague.
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España!
Contemporary music performed by the BERG Orchestra, this time presenting the best contemporary Spanish composers established on the international music scene.
Essential Rzewski & Friends
S dalším příspěvkem do série ZÁSADNÍCH koncertů se do sálu DOX+ vrací Ostravské centrum nové hudby. V letošním vydání bude pozornost zaměřena na Frederica Rzewského, skladatele a klavíristu, který patřil k nejvlivnějším postavám americké hudební avantgardy.
Beyond Words
Image and word. Art and literature. They each have their own territories, their own maps and cartographies. The exhibition Beyond Words aims to explore some of these inspirations and to show how literary culture finds an echo in the works of visual artists today.
Owen Pallett
Canadian violinist, composer and looping master Owen Pallett brings his stunning solo show to the Prague Sounds festival in the DOX+ hall.
Beata Hlavenková & Kristina Barta
In the DOX+ hall, SOČR will present a double concert by singer and pianist Beata Hlavenková and jazz pianist Kristina Barta. The premiere will feature new compositions as well as music inspired by poetry.
Eldar Djangirov Trio
The DOX+ hall will be filled with the talented personality of contemporary jazz music, Eldar Djangirov. He will present his dynamic work for jazz trio.
Rataj–Török–Honzák
PRSO presents Michal Rataj and Oskar Török's musical vocabulary in the DOX+ hall, which ranges from electronic ambient to club electronica to various positions of contemporary jazz; the second part of the evening will feature double bassist Jaromír Honzák with his new composition.
Music for Lights & Shadows
More than an hour-long mixture of music, picture and light was created by a group of seven leading Czech jazz composers together with an iconic Norwegian composer Helge Sunde. The Concept Art Orchestra is a foremost Czech big band, with a unique line-up for this occasion including a string quartet and electronics.
Infamous Beauty
A overview of the work of American artist and photographer Andres Serrano from the 1980s to the present, featuring more than 120 works. In two separate parts, the exhibition will reveal a surprising and powerful dialogue between current photographs and older works.
Thin Skin
A performance by established circus acrobat Eliška Brtnická and her hypnotic production Thin Skin at the interface of movement installation and contemporary circus in the spaces of the DOX Centre.
The Ritual of Cursed Hearts
Jan Vytiska‘s largest exhibition to date, presenting his paintings from the previous three years. The exhibition presents almost forty large-scale paintings. Thematically, it is still based on a distinctive mix of Wallachian folklore and pop culture references.
Point of View
The world is a place that originates and exists largely in our imaginations. How do we imagine a place for art? And what should it look like for learning? The point of view is a space of uncertainty but also of new experience; a space that shows potential of stereotypes, fear, making mistakes, and changing mind-sets.
Commander
The unique production combines a physical theatre performance with live music and a film starring child actors of Farm in the Cave studio to communicate an urgent, yet widely overlooked, topic – the online radicalisation of youth. The performers' dynamic movement, the pulse of live music, and disturbing images together create an unusual insight into the digital darkness that most of us are – perhaps intentionally – unaware of.
Commander
The unique production combines a physical theatre performance with live music and a film starring child actors of Farm in the Cave studio to communicate an urgent, yet widely overlooked, topic – the online radicalisation of youth. The performers' dynamic movement, the pulse of live music, and disturbing images together create an unusual insight into the digital darkness that most of us are – perhaps intentionally – unaware of.
