Regeneration
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Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová

Nikola Brabcová and Karin Šrubařová work as visual artists and educators, also operating in a long-term artistic tandem. Both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Together, they founded Prototyp, their platform for collaboration among artists and curators, and for residency and educational cooperation, blending real activism, education, and their love for the creative process. They enjoy experimenting, whether exploring new media or embracing analog methods. In their practice, strong interdisciplinarity emerges alongside the discovery process of collective collaboration. Additionally, they emphasize the authenticity of the location, not only as a genius loci, but mainly as a source for the artistic research they always conduct in that area.

David Přílučík

David Přilučík’s artistic works explore the post-natural condition, challenging modern imagination and rationality. Through various aesthetic mediums such as moving images, installations, objects, and live events, Přilučík intertwines human and more-than-human subjects. Collaborating at Artyčok TV and interning at TLTRPreß, he holds diplomas from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Dutch Art Institute. His ongoing project Divoká Šárka, a collaboration with Ruta Putramentaite and Sara Märc, delves into the concept of nature reserves. Přilučík has exhibited his work in numerous galleries and institutions in the Czech Republic and internationally, including programs like the Q21 artist residency at MuseumsQuartier Vienna and Residency Unlimited in New York. His piece “Blind Bidding” earned the main prize in the Other Visions section at the 2017 PAF festival, and in 2022 he became a co-recipient of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.

Jiří Žák

Jiří Žák is an artist based in Prague. In his audiovisual works, he often combines documentary, staged, and performative strategies to explore topics related to contemporary visual culture, local history, and postcolonial world order. He addresses the identity of post-communist countries and its deconstruction through non-western perspectives. Žák has researched the issue of Czech and Czechoslovak arms export to the arabic-speaking countries on a long-term basis. Together with artist Matěj Pavlík, Žák prepared a chapter the Practise of Decolonisation within a two years project Regeneration of Artyčok TV. Chapter deals with the notion of decolonisation in Norway through emancipatory strugle of Sámi people and experienceies of imigrants living in the country. It also elaborates on the problematics of so-called green colonialism. Žák introduced his work at a number of independent galleries and institutions in the Czech Republic, and also internationally, e.g. at the Kiev Biennale 2021, the Warsaw Biennial 2018, Budapest Gallery or Biennale Matter of Art Prague 2020. He was part of Berlinale Talents 2024. He is a co-laureate of Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2020. In 2015, he became a holder of the EXIT Award. Besides his work for Artyčok TV, he teaches at Prague City University and The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology.

Matěj Pavlík

Matěj Pavlík studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague in the Studio of Photography under the guidance of Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt, later Martin Kohout, where he graduated in 2017. During his artistic practice, Matěj Pavlík has worked with several artistic collectives and initiatives ("Studio Without Master" and "Working Group for Research on Extra-Sensory Aesthetics") that critically addressed the university education system and attempted to implement suitable alternative frameworks to the prevailing artistic practices. Pavlík's artistic practice includes a number of authorial and interdisciplinary collaborations. Namely, with Lucie Rosenfeld at the Jelení Gallery, co-curating at the etc. gallery and participating in several editions of the Fotograf Festival. He presented himself in the A.M.180 gallery and the TIC gallery. Pavlík is one of the initiators of the Working Group for Research on Extra-Sensory Aesthetics, which became one of the laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize in 2020, and is currently in his third year of a PhD program at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno.

Amanda Fayant

Cree/Métis/Saulteaux artist and researcher based in Trondheim, Norway. Amanda is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Treaty 4 land. Amanda’s art practice deals with identity, exploring Indigenous feminisms and confronting the impacts of colonial history in Canada. She contributes to our chapter on several levels with insight into decolonization and the lives of indigenous peoples. She facilitated meetings with artist Sissel M. Bergh and academic Stine H. Bang Svendsen, who are essential voices in the upcoming podcast series. Amanda herself features in an episode about the integration of decolonization principles within pedagogy. She also contributed two texts to the chapter, one research text, entitled Decolonization Research as Community, Practice and Part of Caring Pedagogy, and a text, The Four Directions or Shamanic Wheel, describing the principle.

Nikhil Vettukattil

artist living and working in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. He has previously exhibited at venues such as FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna (2023), Kunsthall Oslo (2022), Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2022), K-U-K, Trondheim (2021), CAPC, Bordeaux (2021), Art Hub Copenhagen (2021), Louise Dany, Oslo (2020), EKA Gallery, Tallinn (2020), Kristiansand Kunsthall (2020), and Le Bourgeois, London (2019). He is a member of the art collectives Tenthaus and Carrie, as well as a part of Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and the Institute for Scene Experiments.

Thomas Pausz

Designer, artist and researcher born in Paris and based in Reykjavík. Pausz’s trans-disciplinary practice explores alternative ecologies and unforeseen interactions between life forms and media. In 2022-24, Thomas was appointed Stanley Picker Fellow in Art & Design for his project Haunted Ecologies. In 2022-23, he was artist in residence at the Laboratoire Modulaire, a structure dedicated to artistic practices in digital spaces at ESAM (France). In parallel with exhibitions and media works, Thomas publishes critical essays and eco-fiction. Upcoming exhibitions include Haunted Ecologies, a solo exhibition at the Stanley Picker Gallery (UK, April 2024); Silica Cinema, a film for the curated online exhibition Regeneration on Artyčok.tv (CZ, 2024) and Species Without Spaces at the festival Interstices (July 2024). Recent exhibitions include Neo Materialities at le Cube Garges (2024), Nature in Transition, Shifting Identities, Nordic House Reykjavik (2021); Interspecies Futures, Center for Book Arts, New York (2020) The Wildflower, Hafnarborg Museum, Reykjavik (2020); Creatures Made to Measure, Musée du Design de Gent (2019); The Swamp Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Follow The Flow, Atelier Luma Arles (2017); Srishti Live, Bangalore, India (2017); Market and Movements, Delfina Foundation, London (2016); Hortus Praxis, MUDAM Luxembourg (2011). Pausz is Associate Professor at the Iceland University of the Arts and MA program leader of Design & New Environments.

Collaborators

Sara Baban

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BCAA studio

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Eivind H. Natvig

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Radek Štěpánek

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Susanne Normann

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Snæbjörn Guðmundsson

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Denisa Langrová

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Hana Šantrůčková

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Sam Steyaert

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Jessica Auer

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Janek Rous

Åsmund Asdal

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Marie Novotná

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Teresa Polk

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Kyrre Lien

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Liisa-Rávna Finbog

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Stine H. Bang Svendsen

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Ondřej Šebestík

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Sindre Bangstad

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Mihnea Tănăsescu

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Ráchel Skleničková

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Ólafur Arnalds

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Ella Márjá Eira

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Ólöf Erla Bjarnadóttir

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Lucie Lučanská

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Adam Wlazel

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Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya

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Ryu Neal

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Wiola Ujazdowska

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Sissel Mutale Bergh

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Jan Kašpar / Obelisk of Light

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Brynhildur Pálsdóttir

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Natálie Pleváková

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Hilde Skancke Pedersen

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Tomáš Šenkyřík

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Ruta Putramentaite

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Susanne Hætta

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Magdaléna Manderlová

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Bjarki Bragason

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Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer

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Ladislav Miko

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Ronald Goderie

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Bob Kuřík

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Lorraine Daston

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Miloš Vojtěchovský

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Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson

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Kristína Jamrichová

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Jana Stachová

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Andrea Průchová Hrůzová

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Arne Johan Vetlesen

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Jonáš Richter

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Bára Bažantová

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Karel Prach

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Gústaf Jarl Viðarsson

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Kateřina Vídenová

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Marina Hendrychová

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Collaborators

John Hill

Artist

Zuzana Rousová

Translator

Kryštof Herold

Translator

Jonáš Nobile

NE TVAR EC

Viola Ježková

Documentarist, Director, Dramaturgist

Ivan Svoboda

Artist and Cameraman

Jan Vidlička

Cameraman

Nathan Fields

Translator

Darina Štěpánková

Film Editor

Martin Hůla

Musician and Sound Designer

Marie Čtveráčková

Musician and Educator

Ewelina Chiu Vlček

Musician

Nela Pietrová

Artist and Production Manager

Brian Donald Vondrak

Translator

Filip Nerad

Anymade Graphic Studio

Vít Bohal

Translator