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Guided Tour: Following the Line of Verticality

Artur Magrot, Mia Milgrom, Rudolf Samohejl, zweintopf

Together with curators Tomáš Moravec and Šárka Zahálková and the collective of participating artists, we will embark on an exploratory journey along the imaginary line connecting the areas of Letná, Bubny, and Palmovka.

The route explores a specific trajectory with an elevation gain of approximately 34 meters—a difference that fascinatingly corresponds to the combined depth of the Letná pit and the height of the Palmovka skeleton. This walk offers an opportunity to examine the subtle forces and pressures shaping the city and to discuss concepts such as "ruins-in-reverse," power structures, and the politics of things. As we pass through the Bubny district and Nicholas Winton Street, we will focus on the transformative processes of public space and the imagination associated with them.

The journey culminates at 6:00 PM with the festival's grand opening at Café Pauza, Palmovka.

Link to the list of exact art intervention locations here.

Along this festival trajectory, we will discover the individual artworks together:

Mia Milgrom: Ground Turns 

A series of sculptural interventions engaging with the substrate of our everyday paths. In this work, the artist explores themes of instability, imbalance, the degradation of relationships between various agents, as well as different ways of mapping layers and scales within the context of the urban landscape.

Alena Kotzmannová: Horizon Walk

A site-specific performance (realized on June 16, 2026, as part of the exhibition opening), in which boats act as the primary agents of communication, conveys a poetic message about the possibilities of solidarity at a moment when infrastructural connections are disrupted.

Artur Magrot: Attack Tomorrow

The kinetic sculptural installation explores themes of uncertainty and imbalance. It contrasts them with the fundamental human need for shelter and safety, both in relation to the individual and within broader geopolitical contexts linked to the crisis of territory. Visually, the installation resembles an enlarged table beneath which one can, at least illusorily, take refuge from some of the risks of the contemporary world.

zweintopf: What Ifs

A spatial installation offering visions of transformation and alternative possible futures for the Nová Palmovka building’s skeleton through new, imaginative naming. Despite the current closure of certain areas to the public, these places should still be regarded as an active part of the public sphere, and their potential should be considered.

Rudolf Samohejl: Secrets of the Unseen

A multilayered speculative project straddling physical and virtual space addresses issues of development related to the construction, operation, and value of data centres and their content. It develops a narrative of exploitation and manipulation connected to the value of information, data, and their possession.

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