MAKING SENSE MINIFESTIVAL

Come and join us to explore and create through all your senses!

Welcome to the MAKING SENSE MINIFESTIVAL!

Come join us for an afternoon of exploring and experimenting through all your senses!

This day will launch our minifestival, which is focused on celebrating embodied, multi-sensory ways of knowing, opening up a space for questioning and expanding the possibilities of your creative process! Inviting you to play, experiment, we will give you the opportunity to think through making, engaging your body through dialogue with materiality.

Date: Sun Apr 27 2025

Time: 13:00 - 21.00

Location: Vysoká škola kreativní komunikace - DOMECEKK + Courtyard

Hosted by Making Sense Lab, this event is open to students, practitioners, researchers, and anyone curious and eager to explore the process of knowing through creative, multi-sensory engagement with materials and our environment. Whether you’re a maker, a thinker, or someone with a passion for experimentation, we invite you to join us for an afternoon of workshops, followed by an evening of music and drinks.

Making Sense - Ways of Knowing

• What does it mean to know something?
• How do we engage in a process of deepening knowing, of sense-making?
• How does your personal practice—whatever it may be—help you know something more intimately, deeply, through the senses?
• What methods or tools do you use to get to know something?
• What role do the materials and environments around us play in shaping what we know?

We look forward to exploring and making sense together!

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Our programme:

Urban Wilderness
12.00 – 16.00
A participatory workshop creating small sensory interventions and wild urban offerings.

Natalie Woolf is an artist and professor/researcher at Universidade Lusófona, co-curating the DELLI drawing program and teaching expanded and exploratory drawing practices in the Animation and Communication Design BA and MA courses.
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Ways of Transformation – Inner and Outer Landscapes workshop
TIME: 13.00 - 15.30
Experimental printmaking as a tool for artistic and therapeutic reflection.

Petra Janoušková is a secondary school teacher, experimental printmaker and shamanic practitioner. She has MA from English and American Literature, Art History and Ethnography, Faculty of Arts, MU Brno and Art Therapy Certificate from MU Brno.
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Brushing against the being of the waterfall (Lucie Winterson presentation)
16.00 - 16.30
Lucie Winterson introduces her PhD research where in collaboration with a waterfall she considers how art practices can exist in a space of mutuality between the human and more than human, wild world.

Lucie Winterson is a visual artist based between London and Devon, UK, working primarily with lens-based media and painting. Her practice centres on specific landscapes, seeking to visually articulate an evolving dialogue between humans and the natural world—particularly in the context of the environmental crisis.
ALL WELCOME

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Evocative Objects Workshop( Birgitta Hosea)
16.30 – 18.00
In this workshop, we will explore sensory approaches to interpreting objects and use this as a starting point for storytelling.

Birgitta Hosea, Professor of Moving Image and Director of the Animation Research Centre at UCA Farnham, is an artist / curator known for her innovative approach to expanding animation who creates live events, exhibitions, installations, durational images and short films. Previously, she was Head of Animation at the RCA (2016-18); Course Director of MA Character Animation (2000-15) / Research Leader in Performance (2011-4) at Central Saint Martins, where she also did her PhD.
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Three Songs for Tereza: The listening acrobacy exercise (Pavel Klusák)
18.00 - 18.30

Pavel Klusák is a music publicist. He focuses on contemporary music, mainly independent and experimental. He has long focused on the relationship between music and socio-political events. He has worked for the magazine Týden, Respekt, Lidové noviny, HIS Voice, A2, cooperates with Czech Radio and organises listening programmes.
ALL WELCOME: Domecekk

The following activities will be available throughout the afternoon and are open to all.

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Narrative for All the Senses (Tereza Stehlíková)
A drop-in session to rediscover the power of multi-sensory storytelling.
DROP IN SESSION
​​Tereza Stehlíková is an artist, researcher and educator. She is the head of the visual arts department at VŠKK and an editor of an online arts journal/platform Tangible Territory, focused on sensory perception and embodiment.

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A somatic conversation (Hugo Glover)
Space, bodies, objects – each talking without words, feeling without hinderance – watering curiosity – listening for future laughter.
DROP IN SESSION
Hugo Glover is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. He lectures on experimental design, practice-based research, interdisciplinary design thinking and tacit knowledge.

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Meditation session (Andreas Weber)
DROP IN SESSION
Andreas Weber is a Berlin based book and magazine writer and independent scholar. He has degrees in Marine Biology and Cultural Studies, having collaborated with theoretical biologist Francisco Varela in Paris. Andreas has contributed extensively to developing the concept of enlivenment in recent years.

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Sensory Objects: An Extension of a Flask (Tereza Havlínková)
Engage with sculptural scents, textures, and materials that spark memory and association.
DROP IN SESSION
Tereza Havlínková is a photographer, after studying at FAMU in Prague she worked as an assistant in the intermedia studio. She is also a podcaster and moderator, and has been broadcasting on air for several years on Wave radio, where she is also part of the editorial team. She also creates her own perfumes.

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Sculpting sensory experience (Klei)
DROP IN SESSION
Ceramics and touch, with Juliana Castaño and Anie Hinojosa, recent UMPRUM graduates, who decided to start their own ceramics studio.

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Unnecessary Words on a Canvas (Libor Korman)
Transform meaningless words into visual art.
DROP IN SESSION
Libor Korman is a certified graphic designer and fine arts teacher who has been working in the field of artistic and advertising creative work for more than 20 years.

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Kinesthetic interventions (Katja Vaghi)

Katja Vaghi is a Swiss Italian choreographer, somatic teacher, and dance researcher. She is trained in ballet and modern dance in the US, holds an MA in literature and linguistics from Zurich University and a PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton.

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Film screenings

Living Lab Notebook (Michal Klodner)

Music with Josef Sedlon (one of the longest running DJs on R1, music show host, music editor and promoter.)

🍷 Food & Drink by Dany’s Wine Bar

Any enquires please get in touch with the event curator, Tereza Stehlikova at [email protected]

You might also be interested in WAYS OF KNOWING symposium, taking place on 29th April, also at VSKK. More information about this event:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecstatic-truth-ix-symposium-ways-of-knowing-tickets-1285982220439

​​Tereza Stehlíková is an artist, researcher and educator. She is the head of the visual arts department at VŠKK and also teaches artistic research to PhD and MA students at Academy of Performing Arts and Academy of Applied Arts, Prague. Tereza is engaged in research focused on investigating the role our senses and embodiment play in conveying meaning through artistic practice. Her practice spans moving image, installation and participatory performance and is driven by cross-disciplinary collaboration. Tereza is an editor of an online arts journal/platform Tangible Territory, featuring essays and articles by established artists/authors from the world of arts, science, philosophy. Her upcoming book Exiled from our Bodies, How to Come Back to our Senses is to be published by Routledge later this year. https://cinestheticfeasts.com/

Featured image: Natália Búzková