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Lunchmeat Festival
23–29 Sep 2024
Prague
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23–29 Sep 2024
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Symposium on Digital Arts:
Talks & Workshops
Free entry

Make yourself comfortable, listen, ask, discuss and explore different voices and faces of Lunchmeat Festival and guests at this year’s symposium on music and arts!   

In addition to several lectures and discussions with artists and cultural workers from Czechia and beyond, a record fair with Czech and Slovak label owners will take place on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday the open synthesizer playground returns, with electronic musical equipment from Bastl Instruments, Noise Kitchen and Synth Library available to experiment and play with.  

Korzo – Veletržní palác (NG Prague), Planeta Za
Free entry to all events

The  Symposium is organized with  the support  of the  City of Prague, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the National Gallery Prague, IT training center Gopas, Bastl Instruments, Noise Kitchen, and Kolaps / Alarm.cz.  

Gravity Talks x Lunchmeat
7 pm – 9 pm
Screening & Talk w/ Rebecca Salvadori

Films on Music: An Archive of Relations and Experimental Music Documentation 

In conjunction with Gravity Network — an EU-funded organisation promoting cultural interchange between EU member states — Lunchmeat Festival presents a special evening of film and artistic discussion with filmmaker Rebecca Salvadori. The evening will see a presentation of two films by the Italian artist: The Sun Has No Shadow and her latest film, Messengers. After the presentation of the films, an interview between the artist and music journalist Freddie Hudson will investigate the artistic motifs and meanings within the films.  

19:00 doors 
19:15 The Sun Has No Shadow
19:45 Messengers 
20:00 Talk w/Rebecca Salvadori 

Planeta Za, Na Louži 7, Prague 10 
Free entry 
Reserve your seat at reservations@anka.li

Tranzit x Lunchmeat
5 pm – 7 pm
Video lecture & presentation of translation of the book Raving w/ McKenzie Wark

Australian radical artist McKenzie Wark’s Raving, newly translated into Czech by Vít Bohal & Františka Blažková, is presented in a live video lecture and Q+A in English with the author and artist, moderated by cultural publicist David Laufer. The book investigates raving as a means to escape from oppressive patriarchal ideals, a ritual for emancipation, shared catharsis and collectivism, with Wark examining the role of sex, drugs and sound in this specific social context.  

McKenzie Wark is an Australian artist and professor of media and cultural studies at the New School in New York. Her previous book, the acclaimed Reverse Cowgirl, examined her experiences of transitioning at an older age. The event is organized by tranzit.cz in cooperation with the Lunchmeat Festival and is part of the accompanying program of the Biennale Matter of Art 2024, which is taking place at the Grand Hall of the Trade Fair Palace until September 29, 2024.   

17:00 Release of the translation of the book Raving & Online lecture w/ McKenzie Wark 
Korzo – Veletržní palác  
Free entry

Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn: Inferno  
host: Pavel Smetana
3 pm – 4 pm 
Artist Talk & Discussion  

Performance in the age of Cyborgisation.

Vorn & Demers have produced robotic artworks since 1992, achieving more than 30 projects that have been presented at major international venues and festivals of new media and electronic arts.

To engage viewers, they have progressively opted for increasingly thought-provoking strategies that bring machines as close as possible to the human body. After several immersive installations and human-machine performances on stage (Repeat 2019, Devolution 2006, Grace State Machines 2007), they felt a desire to radicalise the kinesthetic empathy by shifting the gaze from watching “expert” performers on stage to fully self-experiencing the machines as “novice” participants.

This brought them to this new enterprise of human-machine symbiosis, a kind of cyborgisation of the audience, on a fully experimental path where outcomes are often discovered by a trial and error process and empirical research.  Demers & Vorn will present you in-depth analysis of Inferno along with behind the scenes footage and anecdotes. They will also give you insights on their respective ongoing projects and their upcoming participate robotic performance Godspeed.

Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn, the duo behind the interactive performance Inferno, will present their creative work story. How do they view their more than 30 years of experience on the experimental audiovisual scene and their shift from exhibition projects to live performative forms? How does a dystopian vision of the future fit into all? What impact will they see technology have on our lives? These are just some of the questions to which Czech-French artist and professor Pavel Smetana, who has long been into the interconnection of art, technology, and science, will seek answers. He will also offer plenty of space for questions from the audience. 

Kolaps Live:  Culture in times of ideological turbulences 
4.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Jakub Bakule (Cultural and Creative Federation)
Barbora Nemčeková (cultural worker and unionist)
host: Jan Bělíček 
discussion in CZ  

In the advent of the recent elections in Slovakia and the ensuing developments in the social and cultural sector, Lunchmeat Festival allies with KOLAPS podcast to host a live discussion and talk regarding the state of cultural affairs in the region. Aiming to organise and heal wounds and grievances, the talk will cover the developments regarding the disenfranchisement of arts, especially that of queer artists, in light of the right-wing, pro-Russian cabinet’s accession to government.  

Panel Discussion: Independent Czech electronic labels w/ Yuku & UNIZONE
5.40 pm – 6.30 pm
host: Freddie Hudson

What does it take to operate a successful and modern record label in the Czech Republic? This talk aims to cast light on the ins and outs of running a label, from sourcing new music to artistic curation, PR and more. Joining the discussion, hosted by journalist Freddie Hudson, are two label owners representing different fields within the Czech music sector: Jeffrey Oswald of YUKU, a largely bass music-oriented label with many releases on vinyl, and Jan Macháček of Unizone, a net-label releasing post-club, experimental and hard drum music on digital format.   

6.40 pm – 7.30 pm 
Artist Talk:  object blue & Natalia Podgorská and Pinch & Lorem 
host: Freddie Hudson 

Peer into the minds of two of Lunchmeat Festival’s most anticipated performances: London-based musician object blue and her partner and visual artist Natalia Podgorská join Bristolian producer Pinch and audio-visual artist Lorem for a discussion with music journalist Freddie Hudson. The panel talk will aim to investigate similarities and differences in the approach of these two pairings, from harmonising the visual elements with the musical to building in artistic concepts to the music.  

Korzo – Veletržní palác  
Free entry   

Label Fair: Independent electronic labels’ showcase and meetup
3 pm – 7.30 pm

We’re very excited to be launching Lunchmeat’s third independent label fair, this year as part of the Lunchmeat Festival main programme. Label Fair is a meeting of independent electronic labels and collectives from all over the Czech Republic. It offers them an opportunity to present their own work and identity, whether it’s releases, merch or other production, and at the same time meet the public, other similar creators and collectives in an informal way.

Korzo – Veletržní palác  
Free entry 

Synth Playground for Kids of all ages
3 pm – 8 pm

Back once again! Our collaboration with two important Czech institutions in hardware electronics: Bastl Instruments and Noise Kitchen. Get your hands dirty with the coolest electronic gear going around, for free! Make your own animation, or even get the raw materials down for your next record… the choice and the creativity is all yours. The hardware playground is open during the afternoon on Sunday, with friendly experts on hand to help with questions, understanding the gear, and getting a jam going.  

Korzo – Veletržní palác  
Free entry