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 Brno City Councilor's Club 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.
Programme:
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM
Collective singing by the Sbor družstva život (Rajská zahrada)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lecture by Rob Švarc with sound interventions by the Sbor and other participants (Meeting Room 1B)
👀 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.
Members of the Sbor Družstva život
💥 Ruta Richter Pu (born in 1989 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is an artist living in Prague. She studied art in Vilnius, London, and is currently studying at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (AAAD) in Prague. In her artistic research, Richter Pu draws from a posthumanist feminist approach and explores what it means to be human in the 21st century, caught between the rapid development of technology and the deepening climate crisis. Her work includes both sculptural installations and performative audio creations, as well as writing texts and curating. She is also investigating intersections of art, ecology, and pedagogy in her practice. She is a member of the nomadic Choir of the Life Cooperative and the Les-Woods association.
💥 Jonáš Richter (born in 1983) is a Czech artist who primarily works with sound, installation, and voice. He studied photography at the Silesian University in Opava (2007–2011) and sculpture at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (AAAD) in Prague (2014–2018), where he is currently continuing as a PhD student. His research focuses on the cultural assumptions of perceiving the human voice, furthering his long-standing interest in language, communication, and the creation of meaning. Together with artists Ruta Putramentaite and Denisa Langrova, he is a member of the Choir of the Life Cooperative. He has curated the sound gallery Output and collaborated on the sound design of numerous projects by other artists. He is also involved in sound design and his own musical projects, most notably the Richter & Syn project for the past fifteen years.
💥 Denisa Langrová (born in 1996, Czech Republic) completed her master's degree in fine arts at the AAAD in Prague in 2024 (initially under Dominik Lang and Edith Jeřábková, later under Dominik Gajarský and Michal Pěchouček). Her work explores the intersections of narratives between humans and other animals. She finds resistance to oppressive structures in friendship, storytelling, humor, utopia, and magic. She perceives the personal as political, and vice versa. Although her works are often clear and ironic, they also leave room for imagination and freely combine real and fictional elements. She is inspired by the stories that come to her, fairy tales, myths, pop culture, history, and folk literature. Through her art, she seeks space for emotionality, irrationality, and the disruption of paradigms. She enjoys utilizing her artistic experience in independent collectives, civic movements, or non-profits. She is part of the curatorial group within the Les initiative, a community for cultivation, theory, and art. She is also the author of several educational workshops, panel discussions, and other formats bridging art and education. Her work has been presented at various film festivals and exhibitions. Currently, she works at a wildlife rescue station.