The Agosto Foundation is a partner in the project reflecting on the transnational implications of climate change, deindustrialization and the Anthropocene.

Directors, Producers: Christian Frei, Maxim ArbugaevScenario: Christian FreiCamera: Peter Indergand, Maxim ArbugaevProduction: Frei FilmproductionSwitzerland / China / Russia / South Korea / USA, 2018DCP, 113 min, English

We are happy to announce the results of this year’s Open Call for Artist Residencies at the Agosto Foundation. After a thorough review of the 180 applications and nominations by board members, we have identified five distinguished applicants.

Bucharest-based artists Anca Benera (b. 1977) and Arnold Estefan (b. 1978) have worked together as collaborators since 2011.

Born 1964 in Lower Saxony, Burkhard Beins has lived in Berlin since 1995. As a composer/performer of experimental music he is known for his definitive use of percussion in combination with selected sound objects. In addition, he works with live-electronics/analog synthesizers and has conceived several sound installations.

Anamaria Pravicencu is a sound artist and initiator of several music and cultural initiatives in Romania.

Chris Hill is a media curator, artist and educator, and is currently teaching and serving as Associate Dean in the Film/Video School at California Institute for the Arts.

Intermedia artist Mila Panic explores social cultural aspects of societies in quick transformation.

Zažít město jinak 2018, 15 September 15 on Vojtěšska.

Beth Custer is an Emmy Award winning composer, performer, recording artist, bandleader, and the proprietor of BC Records.

What type of acoustic environment is beneficial or detrimental for people and other beings? Is there even such a thing as a natural, healthy acoustic environment which is fitting for humans, irrespective of other beings?

Lenka Střeláková

Directed by: Ben Rivers (UK, 2015, HD Video, 98 min.)

Living Villa is an initiative to save and make use of the villa of Johann Nepomuk Kral in Prachatice, which is one of the most valuable buildings of southern Bohemia. Unfortunately it is currently under threat of demolition by the (probably outdated) road redevelopment plan II / 141 of the 1970s.

Saša Spačal is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of research into living systems with contemporary and sound art.

Barbora Tichá, anthropologist and curator, organizes exhibitions, workshops, and student colloquia at the chateau Valeč, which stands in a Baroque village on the slopes of the Doupov Mountains.

The Sanatorium Dźwięku festival in Sokołowsko, Poland, will feature our current artists-in-residence, the electronic duo Tonic Train (Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann).

Gwendolyn Albert is a journalist and activist who has been living and working in Prague since the mid-1990s. She currently writes for Romea.cz.

A concert by the electronic duo Tonic Train (Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann) will take place during Picnic Thursdays at the City Gallery of Pardubice. Creative cooking with artists, theorists and critics together with the public at one table.

The third iteration of the MUHÚ mini-symposium and festival, organized by Aleš Zemene and friends, will once again take place this summer in the Jizera Mountains. 

The following events are taking place in the month of June, organized by various projects with Perepedes grant support.

Tonic Train is the experimental electronics duo of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Julien Maire works with new media in his own, singular way often de-constructing and re-inventing analog apparatuses. He gives them a pataphysical slant, disassembling and inverting the functionality of various perception machines, like projectors or cameras. As part of his Agosto Residency, he will exhibit at the Inverse Mindset exhibition which will take place in Galerie AMU from 19 July - 2 September 2018. 

Production: GAMU and Agosto FoundationCurated by: Miloš VojtěchovskýTechnical assistance: Matěj ŠenkyříkExhibition design: Dominik AdamecOpening: 18 July, 2018, 6 PM    Opening sound performance: Tonic Train (Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington)

21 June 2018, 6 PM

Deadline: August 15, 2018 for residencies taking place between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 

As part of its grant program Perpedes, the Agosto Foundation is requesting nominations from the general public for the support of the activities of individual artists, as well as for artistic or cultural projects.

This group exhibition focuses on the depiction of the forest in European art today. It is inspired by current scientific approaches to plants that accentuate “passionate immersion” in the surrounding non-human world, enlarging the sphere of representation, and cultivating the idea of the forest as an interconnected and thinking organism.

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As the only predominantly Hindu island in an otherwise majority-muslim Indonesia, Bali can take pride in a spectacularly unique cultural environment – one which continuously draws on ancient past while standing firmly in the 21st century.

A concert as part of a program of live art by Petrohradská kolektiv.

Silence is becoming every more scarce in the world of today, drenched as it is in ubiquitous noise. We are living in a world swarming with constant and frenetic movement, one of the many negative consequences of which is the continuous flow of superimposed sonic events of low quality.

In 2010, textile workers of Kamensko went on strike in the city centre of Zagreb. It was one of the rare cases where textile workers occupied the public space and were supported by many civil organizations, attracting a great deal of media and public attention. Despite the community pressure, the factory was closed down, leaving the textile workers on the street without ensuring them previously earned salaries.