The program is being prepared in the curatorial concept of Jana Mikuš Hanzelová and Amálie Bulandrová as part of a year-long series titled Klub kolektivního snění (The Collective Dreaming Club), dedicated to various approaches to fiction and fantasy as strategies for anticipatory imagination.
Klub zastupitelů (City Councilor's Club) will transform into a collective dreaming lounge on one Wednesday of each month, where art, activism, and academia coexist and create new imaginative connections. Throughout the year 2025, public meetings will take place here, all united by the theme of imagining a more-than-real form of the contemporary world. The program of each event has been prepared in dialogue with invited guests, who will personally guide attendees through the chosen form of collective dreaming, drawing on their artistic or research practice.
👀 András Cséfalvay is a visual artist, digital storyteller, musician, and poet based in Bratislava at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU). After studying painting and mathematics, he pursued doctoral research on the usefulness and reality of fiction. He is interested in the relationship between culture and technology, as well as the political and ethical aspects of listening to non-dominant voices in the interpretation of the world.
👀 Tereza Dědinová is a literary scholar focused on speculative fiction. She works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Czech Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. She has published several studies on speculative fiction theory from an ecocritical or cognitive perspective. She is the author or co-author of several scholarly books, including Po divné krajině (2016), Na rozhraní světů (2017), Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fictions (2021), and Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene (2022). She also collaborates externally with the Institute 2050.