Tyko Say (born 1994) is a writer and curator interested in poetry as dialogue. His works aim to explore what that dialogue is, can be, and the implications & opportunities when poetics and the arts are conventionalized.

Tyko is currently based in Prague. He is the Chairman of OBJECT:PARADISE, editor of KROTCH Magazine, a teacher at Prague School of Creative Communication, and plays in the sound project David’s Sister.


Contact:
tykosay@gmail.com

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︎ News [last updated: September 16, 2023]

2023

• Tyko co-curates the scenography of Prague Microfestival MicroLabs with Sandra Pasławska (September 2023).
  
• Tyko reads at Riot Over River Festival 8 with Literary Lavatory at Cross Club (September 2023).
• David’s Sister plays at Cross Club with Alpha Strategy and Kolyma (September 2023).
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts a three-day festival--Performance, Deformance, Reformance--across Czechia and Poland, featuring a curation of over fifty performances (August 2023).
• Tyko and Sandra Pasławska discuss their upcoming EP with David’s Sister and OBJECT:PARADISE’s upcoming festival on AWWMAN Radio (listen from 1h:49m)(August 2023).
• OBJECT:PRAHA III The Manifesto is screened at Hardcœur Festival in Soucy, France (August 2023).
• Excerpts of KROTCH Magazine are exhibited at Vangaurdia Network Party, curated by Jo Blin &
  Lucie Alalu (August 2023).
• KROTCH Magazine celebrates 1-year of print with a special issue on OBJECT:PARADISE’s upcoming event: Performance, Deformance, Reformance (June 2023).
• David’s Sister plays at Underdogs’ (CZ) with Glaas and Skincare (June 2023).
• Reading with Tyko and Bob Holman is mentioned in “Ten Best Things to do This Weekend in Prague” by Expats.cz (June 2023).
• European Literary Network writes about OBJECT:PARADISE video poetry (May 2023).
• David’s Sister and Warm Braník play a concert at U Habásků, Prague (May 2023).
• A selection of Tyko’s VHS videos are played at the Czech Centre London (May 2023).
  
• David’s Sister plays at Bike Jesus (CZ) with Atol Atol Atol, Patole, and Kolyma (April 2023).
  
• The OBJECT:PARADISE collective is awarded a grant for their upcoming festival, Performance, Deformance, Reformance from the VisegradFund (April 2023).
  
• Tyko is interviewed by City Life Magazine (iDnes) about the Prague creative community and difficulties immigrating to Czechia (April 2023).
  
• David’s Sister plays at Žižkovska Noc Festival (March 2023).
  
• Tyko reads at Žižkovska Noc: Literary Lavatory (March 2023).
• Tyko’s piece BYE BYE AMERICAN POETRY is featured in Assignment Literary Magazine (March 2023).
  
• Tyko’s film The Dark Side of Žižkov plays at Žižkovšiška for the fiftith year anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (March 2023).
• Tyko performs in FUSHIONISMO in Prague (March 2023).
• Tyko holds a zine workshop with visiting samizdat researcher and writer Alice Guéricolas-Gagné (March 2023).
  
• Tyko reads on the Charles Bridge as part of the visiting FUSHIONISM Unbearable reading event (January 2023).

2022

• Tyko’s chapbook The Sound of Mouths is anthologized at University California Berkley with Richard Denner’s dPress chapbook collection (2022).
  
• Atticus Review promotes OBJECT:PRAHA II (December 2022).
• David’s Sister plays with China Soup and Skotační Kulomet at Pod u Lampou in Plzen, Czechia (December 2022).
  
• KROTCH Magazine begins selling at The Globe Bookstore and Žižkovšiška in Prague (December 2022).
• Tyko begins teaching Genre studies at Vysoká škola kreativní komunikace (November 2022).
• Kafka Desk writes about The Souterranians poetry anhology (October 2022).
  
• Tyko’s writing is featured in the Prague poetry anthology The Souterranians (October 2022).
  
• Tyko directs video production and erects a 17 TV Installation for Prague Micro Festival (October 2022).
  
• OBJECT:PRAHA III : The Manifesto premieres at Prague Micro Festival (October 2022).
  
• A2 Magazine promotes the upcoming Prague Micro Festival (October 2022).
• Tyko co-curates the series OBJECT:SHOWCASE, featuring Viviana Druga and Adam Ritzke (June - October 2022).
  
• A video of Tyko’s performance This Happened, Yet it is Happening is featured in the South Florida Poetry Journal (November 2022).
  
• Tyko reads at RIOT OVER RIVER 7 Festival: Literary Lavatory (September 2022). 
• Selected texts from Tyko, origionaly printed in KROTCH Magazine, are exhibited in Sandra Pasławska’s exhibiton How We Eat at Žižkovšiška, Prague (September 2022).
• This Happened Yet is Happening is featured at Terrain 13 Festival in Spokane Washington (July 2022).
  
• Ondrej Macl of iTvar Magazine writes about Thought & Beat (July 2022).
• Tyko and Sandra Pasławska are invited to the tenth annual DADAISM festival in Beja, Portugal where they perform as David’s Sister (July 2022).
  
• Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska and Jaromir Lelek launch KROTCH Magazine (June 2022).
  
• Tyko performs his piece This Happened Yet it is Happening (June 2022).
  
• A selection of Tyko’s VHS videos are shown at Kampus Hybernská Sjezdu spisovatelů (June 2022).
  
• Fernanda Seavon of A2 Magazine interviews Tyko about OBJECT:PARADISE (June 2022).
  
• Tyko’s piece We Made Poetry Not Love is featured in New Note Poetry, Summer 2022 Edition (May 2022).
  
• Warm Braník performs at Žižkovska Noc Festival (March 2022).
  
• Radio Prague International discusses OBJECT:PARADISE (January 2022).
  
• OBJECT:PARADISE Volume II is pressed on vinyl with Sifter Grim Records in Seattle (January 2022).
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its seventh language happening, Thought & Beat, where OBJECT:PARADISE Volume II and OBJECT:PRAHA II are also released (January 2022).
• OBJECT:PRAHA II is featured in University Austin Texas’s Apricity Magazine (January 2022).

2021

• Prague Monitor writes about OBJECT:PARADISE Volume II to be released in January 2022 (December 2021).
  
• Tyko reads at Literary Lavatory: Viral Jam (November 2021).
  
• Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska play their first concert as David’s Sister with Jealous Yellow and China Soup at Cafe v Lese (November 2021).
  
• Tyko Say, Jaromír Lelek, Sandra Pasławska, and Roksan Mandel create the punk poetry project Warm Braník where they perform at Žižkovska Noc Festival (October 2022).
  
• Tyko becomes a member of The Prague Micro Festival Committee (October 2021).
• Tyko is interviewed by Authority Magazine about poetics and writing (July 2021).
  
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its sixth language happening, Excuse me, Žižkov (July 2021).
• A selection of tyko’s VHS videos are shown at Večer Poezie (July 2021).
  
• Tyko and Sandra Pasławska complete the film The View From Here (June 2021).
  
• Prague Monitor writes about Excuse me, Žižkov (June 2021).
• Tyko reads at The Word Addict: Breathe event, Prague (May 2021).
• Loretta Lau Interviews Tyko Say (April 2021).
  Tyko’s piece WE is projected at Hudson Hall in Hudson New York (March 2021).
• Tyko curates the installation Now Showing with FlowChart Foundation of Hudson New York (March 2021).
  
• Prague Morning writes about Tyko’s installation WE (February 2021).
  
• OBJECT:PRAHA is featured at Versopolis Festival of Hope 2 (February 2021).

2020

• I Fucked Her Sadly in a Dream appears in The Isolation Collection: Description of a struggle (2020).
• Amerika appears in The Isolation Collection: Amerika (2020).
• The OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto is written (2020).
  
• OBJECT:PRAHA premieres at Prague Microfestival XIV (November 2020).
  
• Tyko’s piece film Letters of Correspondence premiers on So Say We All TV (September 2020).
  
• Tyko curates a VHS livestream reading titled OBJECT:SUNSET (August 2020).
  
• Tyko presents the mission of OBJECT:PARADISE at Gathering of the Clans: a presentation of contemporary literary groups in Prague (July 2022).
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its fith event, Tunnel Vision(s) (July 2020). 
• Tyko directs the film At The Corner to the Right (July 2020).
  
• Tyko begins the VHS interview series OBJECT:VAULT (June 2020).
  
• Tyko’s writing appears in the seventh issue of The Alienist Manifesto (January 2020).

2019

• Tyko reads at Talk Like an Alien at The Solution (December 2019).
• OBJECT:PARADISE Volume I is released featuring pianist Jenda Pudlák and Jeff Milton (November 2019).
  
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its fourth event Channels of Communication (November 2019).
  
• Tyko’s piece Your Room Devoid is featured in Death Rattle: Oroboro Volume II (November 2019).
  
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its third event Sound of June at Zázemí (June 2019).
  
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts its second event, Architecture of Poetry, at Cafe Souterrain (February 2019).
  

2018

• OBJECT:PARADISE’s first event, Poetry of Sound, is held at the Czech Inn (November 2018).
  
• Tyko’s piece Smichov is featured in Charles University’s literary magazine, Casopis Ink (November 2018).
  
• Tyko forms the performance and poetics collective OBJECT:PARADISE with Jeff Milton (October 2018).
  
• Tyko’s piece Kacerov is featured on the Icelandic blog, MENNINGARSMYGL (August 2018).
  
• Tyko moves to Prague, Czech Republic (February 2018).

2017

• Tyko graduates with Merit from the English Language Teaching Master’s program from Sussex University (August 2017).
  
• Tyko submits his Master’s dissertation, Measuring Mismatches in what ELF Teachers Say and What Their Students Hear (August 2017).

2016

• Tyko is accepted into the English Language Teaching Master’s program at Sussex University (July 2016).
  
• Tyko graduates with honors from the undergraduate Professional and Creative Writing program (June 2016).
  
• Tyko’s first chapbook The Sound of Mouths is published with dPress (June 2016).
  
• Tyko is a contributing poetry editor for Central Washington University Manastash Literary Magazine Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice: Brown and Black Lives Matter (February 2016).
• Tyko becomes a reportage photographer for the CWU Observer (January 2016). 

2014

• Tyko enrolls in the Professional and Creative Writing undergraduate program at Central Washington University (September 2014).

2013

• ERRR Magazine publishes a selection of Tyko’s photoset Absent Hyper Chaotic Face (April 2013).
  
• DIET COLA Zine features selected photos in their fourth issue (February 2013).
  

2012

• Tyko receives an Associates in Arts degree from Green River Community College (January 2012).