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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︎Press and Interviews

Let’s Dethrone the Poet (cz)

_{An Interview with Joe Grim Feinberg, A2 Magazine, August 2025.}

“...In our community, English acts as a kind of lingua franca which brings both challenges and opportunities. At our events, you’ll hear a range of “Englishes” and “Czenglishes” – different accents, registers, and fluencies – which relieves the pressure to conform to classical ideas of what poetry is supposed to sound like, such as “the best words in the best order.” Almost no one in our space is a native speaker, and that opens up something really important: we’re less focused on showcasing polished language or the singular intention of the poet, and more interested in how language behaves in relation to other elements – movement, sound, context, and presence. Rather than centering the poet and their mastery of language, we treat language as one part of a broader composition. It becomes less about presentation and more about process – something unstable, in motion, deforming and reforming in real time...” Read the full article here︎

For Poetry to be Everywhere (sk)

_{An interview with Ondřej Hrabal, Host Magazine, August 2024.}

“...The role of the reader as poet is essential to me, and I am therefore trying to explore whether the current literary environment really allows for this dialogue. If poetry is to be a living, truly vibrant conversation, it is essential to create contexts in which each participant feels they can participate in the situation — contexts that highlight subjectivity. Only then can poetry fulfill its potential. Not as a static, objective form, but as a dynamic exchange that encourages readers or listeners to create their own meanings and thus become poets themselves...” Read the full article here︎

Embrace Miscommunication (en/sk)

_{A discussion with Vít Bohal, 3/4 Magazine, November 2023.}

“...The problem with poetry is that it is poetry – and not something else. And instead of excluding the language itself, we place our emphasis on the context: the time and place where the language exists. And that’s where our collective brings its curation to bear: at the contextual level because it’s the only thing that we can control. Our objective is to create an in-the-moment, micro-worldview shared by all participants in the language exchange by recycling language, symbols, jokes, miscommunications and other items that were created and experienced only in the moment of that curation. And when this happens, we call it a language happening because a language item was collectively experienced and then appropriated to a new context, bringing with it new micro-understandings that are native to that exchange...” Read the full article here︎

Instant Nostalgia (cz)

_{Fernanda Seavon writes about Thought & Beat, A2 Magazine, June 2022.}

“...[OBJECT:PRAHA III] evokes the punk atmosphere of the 1990s, is bright with color, full of dialogue and jazz improvisation, and lacks a traditional narrative. As the tape unrolls, the video jumps from scene to scene, creating surprising connections. “I tried editing and rearranging the individual images in all sorts of ways,” says Say, “but in the end, for the sake of what I wanted to capture—the moments as they were—it turned out to be best to almost forgo editing...” Read the full article here︎

Tyko Say of OBJECT:PARADISE: Five Things You Need To Write Powerful And Evocative Poetry (en)

_{An interview with Heidi Sander, Authority Magazine, July 2021.}

“...I think the most important thing to know is that we are all poets — everytime we produce language, we are creating a time and space specific language happening, something uniquely ours. We should all have more confidence with how we see the world — our minds don’t lie to us. All interpretations are valid. Whenever we use language, it has never been used in that specific context before — it has a new meaning and is happening for the first time. This is such an exciting thing to recognize and celebrate. Equally important is to know that there is no such thing as poetry — don’t try to create it because that would be someone else’s interpretation of the world. Record how you interpret the world and the poetry will come later...” Read the full article here︎

︎More

• • Tyko is interviewed by City Life Magazine (iDnes) about the Prague creative community and difficulties immigrating to Czechia (April 2023).
    
    
  • Ondrej Macl of iTvar Magazine writes about Thought & Beat (July 2022).
    
    
  • Prague Morning writes about Tyko’s installation WE (February 2021).

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︎ News [last updated : Aug. 29 2025]

2025

• David’s Sister plays with China Soup and Alpha Strategy at Žižkovšiška for Tyko and Sandra’s Prague wedding celebration (August 2025).
• Tyko & OBJECT:PARADISE are mentioned in, Why Prague is still the Hottest Spot in Contential Europe for English Language Underground Writing in Bibliofone (August 2025).
  
• Tyko and Sandra discuss the O:P approach and their latest film & project Momentument with Joe Grim Feinberg in A2 Magazine (August 2025).
• OBJECT:PRAHA V : MOMENTUMENT premieres at Kino Pilotů in Prague (August 2025).
  
• The TYKO:TV webpage is launched, featuring a showcase of all footage taken by Tyko Say (August 2024).
  
• Tyko & Sandra Pasławska get married ︎ (June 2025).
• OBJECT:PRAHA V : MOMENTUMENT premieres at the Urban Spree Gallery in Berlin (June 2025).
• Tyko gives a reading at the House of Arts in Ostrava (June 2025).
• Tyko performs at the opening exhibition of Jo Blin’s Playground (May 2025).
• Tyko and Jaromír Lelek launch their collective book, Pigeons at Breakfast (May 2025).
• Tyko & Sandra give a guest lecture about OBJECT:PARADISE at the Film and Television Faculty (FAMU) (May 2025).
• KROTCH Mag is presented at the Spring Zine Festival Vol.5 at Eternia (April 2025).
• David’s Sistser performs at Louis Armand’s “A Tomb in H-Section” book launch at the Místečko art space, Žižkov (April 2025).
• David’s Sister plays at Žižkovšiška with Chilling Coke and Madame Ledet (April 2025).
• Tyko curates a 3-week project titled MOMENTUMENT which explores the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto through creative curation & exhibition (March 2025).
• David’s Sister plays with PISSE, DIE FREMDEN HÄNDE, and STRES at Eternia Smíchov (January 2025).
• David’s Sister plays with China Soup and Kamala at Cafe v Lese (January 2025).

2024

2024 - a year of trains, zines, cables, and resistance. Read the full report about OBJECT:PARADISE’s 2024 here ︎

• Tyko presents KROTCH Mag and OBJECT:PARADISE at the Prague International Bookfair (December 2024).
• Existence is Resistance is screened at the Lviv Cultural Center and the House of Sound in Ukraine (November 2024).
• Existence is Resistance is screened at Exposition: Retours d'Ukraine in Perpignan, France (November 2024).
• The Seattle Stranger writes about Jealous Yellow’s album Czech Vampires in which Tyko is featured (October 2024).
• Existence is Resistance premieres at the 16th annual Prague Microfestival (October 2024).
• Tyko is featured in The Outsiders showcase at the Prague Microfrestival (October 2024).
• Tyko co-curates the scenography of the Prague Microfestival, featuring works from over 100 Prague-based creators (October 2024).
• Tyko is featured in the tenth issue of the Red Ogre Review. (October 2024).
• David’s Sister is featured in Praha Ožralá: Hospody undergroundu, Česka Televize (September 2024)
• Tyko presents the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto at Gathering of the Clans Vol. 2 in Prague (September 2024).
• A selection of media documenting OBJECT:PARADISE happenings is exhibited in The Scaffolding Palace, a public display of works from The Outsiders (September 2024).
• KROTCH Magazine is featured in minor li[s]t by minor literature[s] (September 2024).
• Tyko presents and discusses OBJECT:PRAHA III (The Manifesto) at Inverse Literary Festival in Ostrava, Czechia (August 2024).
• Ondřej Hrabal discusses OBJECT:PARADISE with Tyko in Host Magazine (August 2024).
  
• Ningen Paper Press recommends Come over We Can, and We Will (August 2024).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PARADISE and OBJECT:PRAHA IV as part of the Existence as Resistence project at the Lviv Art Center in Ukraine (June 2024).
  
• This Happened, Yet is Happening is nominated for an award in ‘Re-Thinking The Media’ and premieres in Venice, Italy as part of CIFRA’s Venice Sleepless Video Art Night  (June 2024).
• Tyko and OBJECT:PARADISE launch OBJECT:PARODY, a radioshow in partnership with Shella Radio & Planeta Za at Ankali, Prague (June 2024).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PARADISE & KROTCH Magazine at Prague’s Anarchist Bookfair (May 2024).
• OBJECT:PARADISE hosts a zine workshop at Místečko Art Gallery as part of KROTCH Magazine (May 2024).
• Tyko and Sandra Pasławska’s live film project Anti-Climax premieres at Art Brut Praha (April 2024).
• Tyko co-curates a telvision installation at Alternburg 1964 (April 2024).
• Tyko curates a teleivison installation for the music video of Marley Wildthing’s “Enough” (February 2024).
  
• David’s Sister plays at Žižkovská Noc Festival (March 2024).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PRAHA IV  in Krakow, Poland (February 2024).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PRAHA IV  in Košice, Slovakia (January 2024).

2023

• David’s Sister plays with Forbidden Wizards, Chlapošrot, NOIX, WHYYES, Cold Venus Revisited, Levag, Slav, Lessle, and Grunt at Underdogs’ for New Year’s (December 2023).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PRAHA IV at Art Quarter in Budapest, Hungary (December 2023).
• Tyko co-hosts the November AWW MAN radioshow with Rory Hinchey (November 2023). 
• OBJECT:PRAHA IV premieres at BEJÁ VU (The Mark Divo Institute) in Beja, Portugal (November 2023).
• Tyko presents OBJECT:PRAHA IV at Hopscotch Reading room in Berlin (November 2023).
• Tyko discusses contextual poetics and OBJECT:PARADISE with Vít Bohal in Slovakia-based 3/4 Magazine (November 2023).
• Select works from Tyko and OBJECT:PARADISE are presented in the online curation The Outsiders as part of TheWrongBiennale (November 2023).
• David’s Sister plays at Kampus Hybernská as part of Prague Microfestival (October 2023).
• Tyko Premieres his film OBJECT:PRAHA IV Performance, Deformance, Reformance at Prague Microfestival (October 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 (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 and 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’ 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).

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