Lunchmeat Festival x tranzit.cz:
17:00–18:15
Queer Existence as Collective Choreography
Korzo – Veletržní palác
Free entry
The two independent short films by Michal Durda and Paulina Pinková explore the concept of “queer” through social and collective choreography. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists, moderated by Nela Pietrová. The films address the themes of chemsex and folklore from a queer perspective, incorporating elements of storytelling, dance, and music. These are collective rituals that can be appropriated as methods of everyday rebellion. The subsequent discussion will focus on these contexts and on strategies of artistic collaboration that joyfully reclaim what a world of rigid norms and prejudices seeks to deprive us of.
tranzit.cz, in collaboration with the Lunchmeat Festival, presents a screening of two art films followed by a discussion led by tranzit.cz editor and curator Nela Pietrová with the filmmakers Michal Durda and Paulina Pinková. The event will take place in the Korzo Hall of the Trade Fair Palace in Prague on Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. as part of the Lunchmeat Symposium. Admission is free of charge.
Paulína Pinková
With a clenched fist I caress your face, 2026
12:16 min
Michal Durda
Crystaldom of Chemsex, 2026
14:04 min
Discussion in Czech and Slovak
Lunchmeat Festival x Resident Advisor
17:00-18:00
Eastern European Hardware
Host: Chloe Lula
Eastern Europe has become an unlikely powerhouse of independent music technology, home to influential manufacturers including Erica Synths, Bastl Instruments and Xaoc Devices. But what conditions allowed this culture of experimentation, engineering and DIY production to flourish across the region? Ģirts Ozoliņš of Latvia’s Erica Synths joins Václav Peloušek from Czech manufacturer Bastl Instruments to explore the relationship between local histories of resourcefulness and technical ingenuity, contemporary maker culture and the global electronic music economy. The conversation will also consider how a generation of Eastern European instrument makers has influenced the way electronic music is created far beyond its immediate scenes – and what happens as once-niche, DIY companies grow into internationally recognised brands.
With Ģirts Ozoliņš (Erica Synths), Václav Peloušek (Bastl Instruments), moderated by Chloe Lula
18:30-19:30
Clubs as Civic Institutions
Host: Chloe Lula
Nightclubs are more than places to dance. At their best, they can function as spaces for community-building, experimentation and exchange – places where alternative cultures and ways of living can develop outside the mainstream. Mariam Otarashvili of Mutant Radio, Yuko Asanuma of setten agency and Jonáš Verešpej of Prague’s Ankali come together to consider what it means to think of clubs as civic institutions, drawing on experiences across Tbilisi, Berlin and Prague. As independent venues contend with rising costs, political pressure, changing audiences and an increasingly competitive nightlife economy, how can they balance cultural and social purpose with the realities of survival? And as clubs grow, professionalise or pursue bigger audiences, can they preserve the values and communities that made them important in the first place?
With Mariam Otarashvili (Mutant Radio, Tbilisi/Berlin), Yuko Asanuma (setten agency, Berlin), Jonáš Verešpej (Ankali, Prague), moderated by Chloe Lula
Both panel talks are in English
15:00–19:30
Label Fair
Support the independent music ecosystem, all the hard-working DIY labels and record-releasing initiatives and visit our Label Fair with electronic labels and collectives from all over the Czech Republic and Slovakia. You will get to browse through their latest catalogues and merch all afternoon and meet like-minded people before the evening shows kick off at Lunchmeat.
14:00–16:00
Synth Playground For Kids of All Ages
Join us and make some music on Sunday afternoon! Synth Library and Bastl Instruments will welcome you with a playground full of specially selected electronic musical instruments that you can test out and play for yourself!
Synth Library is a space for sharing, creating, discussing, experimenting, learning, and unlearning not only in the field of sound and electronic music, based in Prague.
Bastl Instruments (est. 2013) is a Czech community-driven company focused on developing and producing electronic musical instruments.
16:00–17:30
Skill Sharing is Caring
Being in music these days is a multitasking effort – there’s booking, PR/marketing, social media, tech riders, artist management, etc etc. How should one navigate these complicated waters that are often impossible to know without having experience in the field? This rather informal workshop will bring together professionals from the field – in collaboration with the newly established Floque.cz agency –including Lunchmeat’s very own Anna-Marie Bartová and Tasya Nafigina (PR, marketing, tech riders, visuals); sound artist and Synth Library Prague co-founder Marie Čtveráčková, sound and multimedia artists Natálie Pleváková and Magdaléna Rybanská and artist and member of favu label Tamara Spalajkovic aka hiding season. Come and ask questions, bring your bios or tech riders for a check-up. An exchange of ideas and thoughts is welcome!
In Czech and Slovak, if needed English translation
The project V4 AV Co-Creation Platform is supported by the International Visegrad Fund through the Visegrad Grants programme.
18:00–19:00
Karel Veselý: Czech Dreams. What Future Does Our Pop Music Dream Of?
What kind of future has Czech popular culture imagined since the fall of communism? And what happened to those dreams?
Acclaimed Czech music journalist and writer Karel Veselý (Deník Alarm) presents ideas from his new brand book Touhy a sny. Ideologie českého postsocialistického popu (Dreams and Desires: The Ideology of Czech Postsocialist Pop). In this talk, he takes us on a journey through Czech popular culture from 1986 to the present, exploring how pop songs have reflected changing visions of the future.
Drawing on Mark Fisher’s idea of the “slow cancellation of the future,” Veselý follows Czech dreams from the transformative promise of a fully privatized “Austrian village,” through the fantastic visions of Kosmopolis, to the escapism of Mumuland, where the dream of a better future begins to fade.
The journey ultimately leads to a question: what could Czech futurism look like? Perhaps it is still hidden beneath the layers of neoliberal ideology that have shaped – and colonized – our postsocialist dreams and desires.
The talk will be presented in English.
Films and documentaries running at Korzo throughout Thursday – Saturday from 20:00, including a a selection of music documentaries from the Resident Advisor production and a special selection of AV & Experimental films by Lunchmeat Festival.
Music documentaries presented by Resident Advisor
How punk shaped electronic music (2018) – 7 minutes
We explain why punk rock could be a missing chapter in the story of dance music.
Karachi At Night (2024) – 14mins
Karachi at Night offers a glimpse into the DIY roots of Pakistan’s nightlife culture, documenting how local artists overcome cultural and structural obstacles to push electronic music in the metropolis.
Inside Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force (2026) – 18 mins
Mark Ernestus’s influence on electronic music cannot be overstated. From the groundbreaking output of Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound, to founding the institutional Berlin record store Hard Wax, he has continually pushed the culture forward.
Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams (2021) – 75 minutes
“For me, the worst nightmare would be ending up with a film that’s somehow a construction of an artistic figure that had this singularity and a growth path, if it started with photos of childhood and then talking to different people in chronological order about when they knew me,” Terre Thaemlitz, the mind behind monikers like DJ Sprinkles, K-S.H.E. and G.R.R.L., tells director Patrick Nation in Give Up On Hopes And Dreams.
Content warning: a speech in this film mentions assault and rape.
Experimental & Music & AV Films selected by Lunchmeat Festival
Miguel Buenrostro – Kanga Munoko Yoka
Kanga Munoko Yoka, which accompanies the founders of explosive music collective “Fulu Miziki ‘’, proposes a ‘listening positionality’ as a way of entering in relation with the radical diversity of musical worlds in Kinshasa. Moving beyond western representations of otherness and categories of exotic ‘world music’, shifting towards artistic freedom and its interaction with musical embodiment and environmental action.
Rainer Kohlberger – The Electric Kiss
What once may have seemed novel, even quaint, about the algorithmically-generated video work of Rainer Kohlberger, today—in an age of augmented reality, automated image production, and user-friendly artificial intelligence—seems startling prescient. It makes a certain sense, then, that with The Electric Kiss, Kohlberger would attempt to grapple with our current era by going back to the future.
Axonbody & Aho Ssan: The Sun Turned Black
French visual artist Axonbody connects with Paris-based composer and sound designer Niamké Désiré aka Aho Ssan for The Sun Turned Black – a short film accompanying his album of the same name. Exploring the feeling of existing between two places at once, the film captures the state of “diasporic in-betweenness” that can disrupt true connection, and the tension of cultural roots and contemporary expression.
XTRUX – Rapture
As technology flattens the boundaries of reality, survival shifts from a struggle against scarcity to an unceasing pursuit of sensory extremes. When the satisfaction of desires becomes virtually instantaneous, the weight and depth of reality dissolve—compressing the world into an extraordinarily flat state where symbols, experiences, and perceptions are decontextualized and juxtaposed on a single plane.
Sevi Iko Dømochevsky – Break Cycle
Symposium on Digital Arts:
Talks & Workshops
Free entry
It is hard not to succumb to bleakness and doom in the state of perpetual apocalypse we increasingly find ourselves in. Yet, we find solace in our small but meaningful communities – virtual or, better, physical. We invite you to our playground for ideas, thoughts, agreements and disagreements… From “East European Hardware” to “Queer Existence as Collective Choreography”; clubs as spaces for community-building, experimentation and exchange and a journey through Czech popular culture from 1986 to the present, exploring how pop songs have reflected changing visions of the future. There will be a label fair championing the thriving, but fragile DIY CZ & SK music ecosystem, an open skill-sharing session and more.
