Linking Art, Research and Generative Epistemologies

some of the drawings I made during a 12-hour performative reflection on artistic research 🦋 A Space in a Place It Is Not 🦋 organized by @large_avu avu @ma.terie @irinagheorghe1907 @amonachisa @lamioideae this is one of the most beautiful and deeply rich things happening at @avu_prague I had the chance to draw, note, notice, experience and pencil-think the lectures and performances by @gernot.wieland @mel_e_logan @vladimir_kokolia @madalinadan6 @jiao_ran @benwoodard94 @peterkolarcik , Anne-Francois Schmid and others. It was slow, dense, generous andsuper nourishing. Thank you so much! #artisticresearch #drawing #performativelecture #visualnotes #expandedrawing

Special shout-out to the team of students from the Intermedia II Studio (AVU), under the guidance of Dušan Zahoranský, Pavla Sceranková and Roman Štětina, whose performative food event grounded the day in a feast for all senses. Approaching “catering” as an artistic framework of care, attention, and co-presence, the work went through several stages of a living installation and ecological ritual where food became a medium of relations between people, plants, and the environment. How Many Artists Does It Take to Grow a Cucumber? How Many Cucumbers Does It Take to Grow an Artist? in "A Space in a Place It Is Not", our 12h performative reflection on artistic research on December 5th 2025 at AVU Veletržní. 📸Radek Dětinský @avufoto Anna Hofmeisterová @afoir Jana Řehořová @re_jana Barbora Miedzińska @miedzenka Elkin Kutluer @elkinkutluer Vilém Hušek Heorhii Rublik @rublikheorhii Jiří Klimenta @jiri_istart2day0rtmrw_klimenta Anna Chmelařová @chmelarovanna Adam Civín @adamcivin Adam Križovenský @adamkrizovensky Erik Ždila @erik.zdila Max Butrón @butronmax Sofia Mary Pereira Forbes Martin-Alex Šičák @faciebat353 Vanda Vacková Veselá @vandicq Adéla Zemanová Viktoria Bobko @old.kyiv.kvass Zuzana Jirsová @jirsova_zuzana Mikuláš Karban @mikulaskarban Matylda Habartová @matouch.blatouch Julie Pechová @j7I83.0 Yehor Trineiev @etrineiev Barbora Štýblová @barbora_styblova_ Pavla Sceranková @pavlascerankova Dušan Zahoranský @dusanzahoransky Roman Štětina @romanstetina Intermedia 2 Studio @intermedia2avu @avu_prague #artisticresearch #foodevent #installation #ecology

"A Space in a Place It Is Not", our 12h performative reflection on artistic research, took place on December 5th 2025 at AVU Veletržní. From embodied journeys into ambiguous physicalities to the horrors of a haunted thought house, the afternoon unfolded towards spaces of uneasy cohabitation. Images 1-7 Ran Jiao, Spider, Turtle, We, performance. Performed by Ran Jiao, Jovita Siu, Matthew Rogers, Sai Morikawa, Elia Moretti. Images 8-9 Ben Woodard, The Legend of Thought House, lecture 📸Radek Dětinský @avufoto @jiao_ran @benwoodard94 @avu_prague #artisticresearch #research #nonhuman #performance #contemporarydance @matthewraineyrogers @siujichin

Looking back on our 12h performative reflection on artistic research this year, "A Space in a Place It Is Not", that took place on December 5th 2025 at AVU Veletržní. Thank you for joining us on a rollercoaster of artistic formats, performative interventions, sculptural food events and dialogues with science and philosophy. The day started with dance floor immersions into movement and painting, a lecture performance hovering between truth and fiction and a talk on the role of hypothesis in different disciplines. Images 1-4 Vladimír Kokolia, Handedness, performative talk Images 5-7 Gernot Wieland, Cimabue’s Way to Rome, lecture performance Images 8-10 Anne-Françoise Schmid, Some Reflections on the Concept of Hypothesis, lecture 📸Radek Dětinský @avufoto @vladimir_kokolia @gernot.wieland #annefrançoiseschmid @avu_prague #artisticresearch #interdisciplinarity

✨ Join us for the official launch of the new AVU Research Groups programme, dedicated to artistic and theoretical inquiry across a range of thematic areas. The programme will be officially launched on 15 December starting at 4 pm at Research Groups: Forming Fields, a public event held at AVU Veletržní. ✨ The launch will introduce the overall Research Groups structure and the individual thematic groups established so far, as well as a collateral performative programme presented by guest artists and researchers affiliated with the existing groups. Entry is free and everyone is warmly welcome. ✨ Following the launch, all groups established so far will open to new members. AVU researchers (faculty) are also welcome to propose new Research Groups focusing on relevant thematic areas. Detailed information about the requirements for initiating a new group will be presented at the launch. ✨ @avu_prague #avu #researchgroups #doctoralresearch #formingfields #oddelenidoktorskehovyzkumuavu @ma.terie #marketadolejsova @daniellewilde @jhpdf #johnhill @enkikerique @pmorganova @vvp_avu @darinaalster @irinagheorghe1907 @large_avu #stefantiron @benwoodard94 @lea__elisha #tamaraspalajkovic #stepankakuckova @hotelo.zone #hanajaneckova #academyoffineartsprague #akademievýtvarnýchuměnívpraze

#peterkolarcik #idontworkhere #academyoffineartsprague #avupraha #largeavu #artandscience #aplaceinaspaceitisnot #conference #performance #lecture #concert #akademievýtvarnýchuměnívpraze

@mel_e_logan #melelogan #academyoffineartsprague #aspaceinaplaceitisnot @avu_prague @avuphdresearch

💙 #viktoriebobko @intermedia2avu @seedliste @pavlascerankova @dusanzahoransky @romanstetina

📽️ Réka Bucsi is a Hungarian animation filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated with a Master’s degree in animation from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2013. Reka’s graduation film ‘Symphony no. 42’ was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2014. Her films were screened at various film festivals, including all of them premiering at the Berlinale Shorts Competition and further playing in competition at Sundance, Ottawa, AFI Fest, BFI London Film Festival and twice at SXSW. Réka’s short film ‘LOVE’ was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. She became a European Film Academy Member in 2017. Her short film ‘Solar Walk’ won the Audi Short Film Award at the Berlinale in 2018. 🎬 We are looking forward to Réka’s film 🌕 Solar Walk 🌕 Flags are planted. Hands are held. First steps are taken on new worlds. And then the giant lets out a stream of black piss and pees a brand new universe. Reason enough for the two creatures who landed in the new spot with the giant to jump into the vast blackness. Love in outer space. They become one with the new world. Solar Walk follows the journey of individuals and their creations in space. The film screening will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague @avu_prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7. 📷 source: IMDb #artisticresearch #largeavu #aplaceinaspaceitisnot #rekabucsi @rekabooch #animation #film #solarwark #umeleckyvyzkum #avupraha #conference #screening #academyoffineartsprague @avu_prague

🎭 Jiří Adámek Austerlitz is a theatre author and director. He studied theatre directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he has been teaching since 2011. He founded his theatre company BocaLoca Lab in 2006. He has developed an original type of experimental theatre, in which he blends musically composed structures, the dominance of vocal expression, and an unusual approach to language. He is focused on the relationship between inanimate objects and humans and his work has been influenced by visual art. He has been awarded various prizes in the Czech Republic and abroad, especially for Ticks Ticks Politics (2006), From the Jungle Book (2007), The Europeans (2008), and The Lists of Infinity (2014). ➡️ We are looking forward to Jiří Adámek Austerlitz‘s conference vocalizations which is a collaboration with Fedir Kis and students from the third year of bachelor acting program at the Alternative and Puppet department at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU): Eliška Čadová, Barbora Chrpová, Cyril Janeček, Adéla Kulhavá, Alexander Moberg, Šimon Ludvíček, Adam Trčka and Lucie Trilčová.  ➡️ The students–performers step into an unfamiliar environment and respond to the current mood and constellation with their own impulses. Their vocal expression is based on gibberish, childlike playfulness, and rhythmic patterns, reminding us of the creative sources that sometimes get lost under the weight of intellectual positions and ethical responsibility. 🔄 The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague @avu_prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7.   📷 Kamil Košun #artisticresearch #largeavu #aplaceinaspaceitisnot #JiříAdámekAusterlitz #vocalization #music #intervention #interdisciplinarity #umeleckyvyzkum #avupraha #conference #aliskacadova #barborachrpova #cyriljanecek #adelakulhava #alexandermoberg #simonludvicek @simonludvicek #adamtrcka #lucietrcilova #academyoffineartsprague @avu_prague @bocalocalab

🎸 Peter Kolárčik is an artist and a musician, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU), and currently also a technical producer at AVU Veletržní. In his musical, artistic, and podcast projects he focuses on themes of (artistic) labour and its conditions, the inaccessibility of housing, and broader reflections on everyday experience within a system built on the accumulation of capital. 🎤 We are looking forward to Peter Kolárčik‘s performed lecture entitled: 💪 I DON’T WORK HERE 💪   Actually, I do. But not for the duration of this performance. Or presentation. Or lecture. Or concert? The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague @avu_prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7 between 12:00 -14:00 and 16:30 – 18:30. #artisticresearch #largeavu @peterkolarcik #aplaceinaspaceitisnot #concert #lecture #presentation #peterkolarcik #music  #idontworkhere #interdisciplinarity #umeleckyvyzkum #avupraha #conference #academyoffineartsprague @avu_prague

🖌Slavomíra Ondrušová completed her master’s and doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She focuses primarily on drawing and illustration, teaching, and exhibiting. She perceives drawing as a living process that transcends traditional concepts. She perceives it as a means of visual thinking, which she simultaneously transforms into spatial and object formats and connects with the surrounding world and people. In the past, she published a magazine on contemporary drawing, X, together with Milan Vagač. She currently works as an assistant professor in the Printmaking 1 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she also lives and works.🖌 🔖We are looking forward to Slavomíra Ondrušová‘s slow collective viewing of drawings and lines made during the day entitled ✨ Decompre(se)ssion ✨ The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague @avu_prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7 between 12:00 -14:00 and 16:30 – 18:30. #artisticresearch #largeavu #aplaceinaspaceitisnot #drawing #visualthinking #interdisciplinarity #umeleckyvyzkum #avupraha #conference #academyoffineartsprague @avu_prague @oslavao