Kolektivní čtení s kroužkem intersekce: Kde končí krajina a začíná tělo? Bienále Ve věci umění 2026

[Scroll down for English] circle of intersection: Where does the landscape end and the body begin? Collective reading facilitated by Alfréd Šouce and Mariana Petřáková

📍Stan in the Great Hall
Language accessibility: the text is in English, the meeting will take place in Czech. Queer & crip friendly.
Free entry

We read:
✦ Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. South End Press, 1999. (selected passages, mainly from the first chapter "Clearcut: explaining the distance");

✦ Oubramová, Eva. Selected poems from the collection What's left? Literární salon, 2009.

Clear-cutting and fish farms in the forests of American Oregon, the old Most and the landscape of northern Bohemia devastated by mining and the demolition of cities open up similar questions. What do our bodies remember from the places we came from? And what of us remains written in the landscape? How does the experience of loss, uprooting or closeness imprint itself on the way we inhabit our own bodies and the spaces around us?

ℹ️ More information / link to the book:
https://matterof.art/en/events/collective-reading-with-a-ring-intersection-in-the-road-where-the-landscape-ends-and-the-body-begins

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circle intersection: Where does the landscape end and the body begin? A collective reading facilitated in Czech by Alfréd Šouc and Mariana Petřáková

📍The TentLanguage accessibility: The text is in English, but the meeting will be conducted in Czech. Queer and crip friendly.
Free entry

Reading:
✦ Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. South End Press, 1999. (Selected passages, mostly from the first chapter “clearcut: explaining the distance”)
✦ Oubramová, Eva. What's left? (What Remains?) Literární salon, 2009. (Selected poems)

Clear-cutting and fish farms in the forests of Oregon, the old town of Most, and the landscape of northern Bohemia, which has been devastated by mining and urban demolition, raise similar questions. What do our bodies remember of the places we come from? And what traces of us remain inscribed in the landscape? How does the experience of loss, uprooting, or closeness imprint itself on the way we inhabit our own bodies and the spaces around us?

ℹ️ info & link to download the book:
https://matterof.art/events/collective-reading-with-krouzek-intersekce-where-does-the-landscape-end-and-the-body-begin

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Biennale Ve Veče Art 2026
/ Matter Biennale of Art 2026
12. 6 - 13 September 2026
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ART / ARTISTS
AntiGonna, Noor Abed, Szymon Adamczak, Željka Aleksić, Gleb Amankulov, David Apakidze, Yana Bachynska / Jan Bačynsjkyj, Jürgen Baldiga, Leila Basma & Zaher Jureidini, Rufina Bazlova / Stitch It Collective, Ștefan Bertalan, Cezary Bodzianowski, Tina Bxtq, Michal Durda / Room temperature, Jan Durina, Fůd, GALAS (Галас), Hana Garová, Ladislava Gažiová, Davyd Chychkan, Nosrat Karimi, Seba Kayan, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Adrián Kriška, Běla Kolářová, circle of intersection, Isadora Neves Marques, Nadia Markiewicz, Zoi Michailova, Shabu Mwangi, Aron Neubert, Aliza Orlan, Bronislava Orlická & Zuzana Smrkovská, Taring Padi, Cezary Poniatowski, Publik Universal Frxnd, Margaret Raspé, Nour Shantout, Shella Radio, Alex Sihelsk*, Felipe Steinberg, StonyTellers, Alina Sokolova, Fedir Tetyanych, Huda Takriti, Liliana Zeic, Jiří Žák

VENUES
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
/ National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
Dukelských hrdinů 47
170 00 Praha

GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice
Automatic mills 1962
530 03 Pardubice. and St. Petersburg collective. tranzit.cz is part of the tranzit.org network, whose main partner is the ERSTE foundation. / The biennale is organized by the nonprofit initiative for contemporary art tranzit.cz in cooperation with the National Gallery Prague, the City Gallery Pardubice (GAMPA), and Petrohradská kolektiv. tranzit.cz is part of the tranzit.org network. The main partner of tranzit.org is ERSTE Foundation