The program is being developed under the curatorial concept of Jana Mikuš Hanzelová and Amálie Bulandrová, as part of a year-long series titled The Club of Collective Dreaming, dedicated to various approaches to fiction and fantasy as strategies of anticipatory imagination.
Once a month, on a selected Wednesday, the Club of Representatives will transform into the clubhouse of collective dreaming, where art, activism, and academia coexist and create new imaginative connections. Throughout 2025, public gatherings will take place here, all sharing a common theme: imagining a more-than-real version of the contemporary world. Each event’s program is prepared in dialogue with invited guests, who will personally guide participants through a selected form of collective dreaming rooted in their artistic or research practice.
👀 Sbor Družstva život
Denisa Langrová, Ruta Putramentaite, and Jonáš Richter, in their performance project Sbor Družstva život (Choir of the Life Cooperative), work with the emotional charge of collective singing and its ability to create shared space. Through choral singing, they let their bodies resonate with the frequencies of emancipatory theory and poetry. They incorporate fragments of academic texts as well as folk and pop songs, which they recontextualize into a mosaic of potential pathways out of today’s crises. Thematically, the texts align with ecofeminism and respond to the specific context of each event in which the performance takes place. The songs are designed to be easily joined in by listeners. The Choir of the Life Cooperative studio album is available on Bandcamp.
👀 Robo Švarc
Robo Švarc is a visual artist, author, curator, and translator. Since 2013, he has been developing a long-term project titled Lecture Art: a dialogue among all those who care about the current cultural, social, and environmental state of society. The project includes exhibitions, festivals, lectures, discussions, performances, gastronomic events, artivism, and more. In 2021, he published his own book Non Exit and a translation of The Congo Tribunal by Milo Rau. He is currently finalizing the translation of Social Games: Contemporary Political Theatre by Florian Malzacher. Švarc is a co-founding member of the civic association Hopelessness and Despair, which focuses exclusively on utopian environmental-artistic-social projects, such as the ongoing phyto- and mycoremediation of a fruit orchard at an elementary school within the broader toxic area of Istrochem in Bratislava.