{"id":1621,"date":"2026-09-17T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunchmeatfestival.cz\/2026\/?page_id=1621"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:42:36","slug":"symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lunchmeatfestival.cz\/2026\/symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<nav class=\"second\">\n\n<a href=\"#sep24\"><span class=\"button\" onclick=\"filterSelection('sep24')\">Thu Sep 24rd \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"#sep25\"><span class=\"button\" onclick=\"filterSelection('sep25')\">Fri Sep 25th \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"#sep26\"><span class=\"button\" onclick=\"filterSelection('sep26')\">Sat Sep 26th \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"#sep27\"><span class=\"button\" onclick=\"filterSelection('sep27')\">Sun Sep 27th \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"#cinema\"><span class=\"button\" onclick=\"filterSelection('cinema')\">Symposium Cinema \u2192 <\/span><\/a>\n\n<\/nav>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sep24 filterDiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lunchmeat Festival x tranzit.cz: <br><strong>17:00\u201318:15<\/strong><br><strong>Queer Existence as Collective Choreography<\/strong><br>Korzo \u2013 Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c\u202f&nbsp;<br>Free entry&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two independent short films by <strong>Michal Durda<\/strong> and <strong>Paulina Pinkov\u00e1<\/strong> explore the concept of \u201cqueer\u201d through social and collective choreography. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists, moderated by Nela Pietrov\u00e1. 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 Pietrov\u00e1 with the filmmakers Michal Durda and Paulina Pinkov\u00e1. 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul\u00edna Pinkov\u00e1<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>With a clenched fist I caress your face<\/em>, 2026&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>12:16 min&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michal Durda<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>Crystaldom of Chemsex<\/em>, 2026&nbsp;<br>14:04 min&nbsp;<br><br>Discussion in Czech and Slovak&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sep25 filterDiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong>Lunchmeat<\/strong> Festival x Resident Advisor<br><strong>17:00-18:00<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><strong>Eastern European Hardware<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1403177397415367\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1403177397415367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Host: Chloe Lula<br><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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? <strong>\u0122irts Ozoli\u0146\u0161<\/strong> of Latvia\u2019s <strong>Erica Synths<\/strong> joins <strong>V\u00e1clav Pelou\u0161ek<\/strong> from Czech manufacturer <strong>Bastl Instruments<\/strong> 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 &#8211; and what happens as once-niche, DIY companies grow into internationally recognised brands.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With \u0122irts Ozoli\u0146\u0161 (Erica Synths), V\u00e1clav Pelou\u0161ek (Bastl Instruments), moderated by Chloe Lula&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer line\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong>18:30-19:30<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><strong>Clubs as Civic Institutions<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Host: Chloe Lula<br><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nightclubs are more than places to dance. At their best, they can function as spaces for community-building, experimentation and exchange &#8211; places where alternative cultures and ways of living can develop outside the mainstream. <strong>Mariam Otarashvili<\/strong> of <strong>Mutant Radio<\/strong>, <strong>Yuko Asanuma<\/strong> of s<strong>etten agency<\/strong> and <strong>Jon\u00e1\u0161 Vere\u0161pej<\/strong> of Prague\u2019s <strong>Ankali<\/strong> 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?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Mariam Otarashvili (Mutant Radio, Tbilisi\/Berlin), Yuko Asanuma (setten agency, Berlin), Jon\u00e1\u0161 Vere\u0161pej (Ankali, Prague), moderated by Chloe Lula&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both panel talks are in English&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sep26 filterDiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong>15:00\u201319:30<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Label Fair<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sep27 filterDiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong>14:00\u201316:00<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><strong>Synth Playground For Kids of All Ages<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Join us and make some music on Sunday afternoon! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthlibrary.cz\/events.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synth Library<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bastl-instruments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bastl Instruments<\/a> will welcome you with a playground full of specially selected electronic musical instruments that you can test out and play for yourself!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Bastl Instruments (est. 2013) is a Czech community-driven company focused on developing and producing electronic musical instruments.&nbsp;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer line\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">16:00\u201317:30&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong>Skill Sharing is Caring&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being in music these days is a multitasking effort &#8211; there\u2019s 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 \u2013 in collaboration with the newly established Floque.cz agency \u2013including Lunchmeat\u2019s very own <strong>Anna-Marie Bartov\u00e1<\/strong> and <strong>Tasya Nafigina<\/strong> (PR, marketing, tech riders, visuals); sound artist and Synth Library Prague co-founder <strong>Marie \u010ctver\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1<\/strong>, sound and multimedia artists <strong>Nat\u00e1lie Plev\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/strong> and <strong>Magdal\u00e9na Rybansk\u00e1<\/strong> and artist and member of favu label <strong>Tamara Spalajkovic<\/strong> 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!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In Czech and Slovak, if needed English translation&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project V4 AV Co-Creation Platform is supported by the International Visegrad Fund through the Visegrad Grants programme.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer line\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>18:00\u201319:00<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><strong>Karel Vesel\u00fd: Czech Dreams. What Future Does Our Pop Music Dream Of?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What kind of future has Czech popular culture imagined since the fall of communism? And what happened to those dreams?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acclaimed Czech music journalist and writer Karel Vesel\u00fd (Den\u00edk Alarm) presents ideas from his new brand book <em>Touhy a sny. Ideologie \u010desk\u00e9ho postsocialistick\u00e9ho popu<\/em> (<em>Dreams and Desires: The Ideology of Czech Postsocialist Pop)<\/em>. 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on Mark Fisher\u2019s idea of the \u201cslow cancellation of the future,\u201d Vesel\u00fd follows Czech dreams from the transformative promise of a fully privatized \u201cAustrian village,\u201d through the fantastic visions of <em>Kosmopolis<\/em>, to the escapism of <em>Mumuland<\/em>, where the dream of a better future begins to fade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u2013 and colonized \u2013 our postsocialist dreams and desires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The talk will be presented in English.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cinema filterDiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Films and documentaries running at Korzo throughout Thursday \u2013 Saturday from 20:00, including a a selection of music documentaries from the Resident Advisor production and a special selection of AV &amp; Experimental films by Lunchmeat Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Music documentaries presented by Resident Advisor&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How punk shaped electronic music (2018)<\/em> &#8211; 7 minutes&nbsp;<br>We explain why punk rock could be a missing chapter in the story of dance music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Karachi At Night (2024)<\/em> &#8211; 14mins<br><em>Karachi at Night<\/em> offers a glimpse into the DIY roots of Pakistan&#8217;s nightlife culture, documenting how local artists overcome cultural and structural obstacles to push electronic music in the metropolis.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Inside Mark Ernestus&#8217; Ndagga Rhythm Force (2026) <\/em>&#8211; 18 mins&nbsp;<br>Mark Ernestus&#8217;s influence on electronic music cannot be overstated. From the groundbreaking output of Basic Channel and Rhythm &amp; Sound, to founding the institutional Berlin record store Hard Wax, he has continually pushed the culture forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams (2021) <\/em>&#8211; 75 minutes&nbsp;<br>&#8220;For me, the worst nightmare would be ending up with a film that&#8217;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,&#8221; 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Content warning: a speech in this film mentions assault and rape.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer line\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experimental &amp; Music &amp; AV Films selected by Lunchmeat Festival<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Miguel Buenrostro<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Kanga&nbsp;Munoko&nbsp;Yoka&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kanga Munoko Yoka, which accompanies&nbsp;the founders of explosive music collective \u201cFulu&nbsp;Miziki&nbsp;\u2018\u2019, proposes a \u2018listening positionality\u2019 as a way of entering in relation&nbsp;with&nbsp;the radical diversity of musical worlds in Kinshasa. Moving beyond western representations of otherness and categories of exotic \u2018world music\u2019,&nbsp;shifting towards artistic freedom and its interaction with musical embodiment and environmental action.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rainer Kohlberger<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; <strong>The Electric Kiss<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What once may have seemed novel, even quaint, about the algorithmically-generated video work of Rainer Kohlberger, today\u2014in an age of augmented reality, automated image production, and user-friendly artificial intelligence\u2014seems startling prescient. It makes a certain sense, then, that with <em>The Electric Kiss<\/em>, Kohlberger would&nbsp;attempt&nbsp;to grapple with our current era by going back to the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Axonbody&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Aho&nbsp;Ssan:&nbsp;The Sun Turned Black<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French visual artist Axonbody connects with Paris-based composer and sound designer Niamk\u00e9 D\u00e9sir\u00e9 aka Aho Ssan for&nbsp;<em>The Sun Turned Black&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 a short film&nbsp;accompanying&nbsp;his album of the same name. Exploring the feeling of&nbsp;existing&nbsp;between two places at once, the film captures the state of \u201cdiasporic in-betweenness\u201d that can disrupt true connection, and the tension of cultural roots and contemporary expression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>XTRUX&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Rapture&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&nbsp;virtually instantaneous, the weight and depth of reality dissolve\u2014compressing the world into an extraordinarily flat state where symbols, experiences, and&nbsp;perceptions&nbsp;are decontextualized and juxtaposed on a single plane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sevi Iko D\u00f8mochevsky &#8211;\u00a0Break Cycle<\/strong><br><br>Break-Cycle is a hallucinatory passage exploring the conflicts of consciousness through the archetypal figures of astrology. Built from real dreams written down by its creative team, this CGI film drifts through a story with no anchor, where up and down lose their meaning and a feverish inner monologue tries to make sense of a self in constant mutation, with no body to hold it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer line\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Symposium on Digital Arts:<br>Talks &amp; Workshops<br>Free entry<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; virtual or, better, physical. We invite you to our playground for ideas, thoughts, agreements and disagreements\u2026 From \u201cEast European Hardware\u201d to \u201cQueer Existence as Collective Choreography\u201d; clubs as spaces for community-building,&nbsp;experimentation&nbsp;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 &amp; SK music ecosystem, an open skill-sharing session and more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thu Sep 24rd \u2192 Fri Sep 25th \u2192 Sat Sep 26th \u2192 Sun Sep 27th \u2192 Symposium Cinema \u2192 Lunchmeat Festival x tranzit.cz: 17:00\u201318:15Queer Existence as Collective ChoreographyKorzo \u2013 Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c\u202f&nbsp;Free entry&nbsp; The two independent short films by Michal Durda and Paulina Pinkov\u00e1 explore the concept of \u201cqueer\u201d through social and collective choreography. 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