OBJECT:PRAHA IV
OBJECT:PRAHA IV: Performance, Deformance, Reformance (2024) is the film outcome of O:P’s first international language happening – three events across two countries, co-curated with partner collectives from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia and unified by a single manifesto.
Directed by Tyko Say
Runtime: 33:43
Format: Digital (digitized MiniDV (PAL) / VHS (PAL)
Read about the full curation here
Shot in August 2023, the film assembles over forty performances, readings, actions, sounds, and installations from artists across Central Europe, tracing a weekend where venues in Prague and Krakow were turned into temporary laboratories for language. Rather than asking what poetry should be, OBJECT:PRAHA IV looks at what poetry can be when it leaks into public space, nightlife, and everyday movement.
Threaded through the film are three questions: What is the function of performance in sharing poetry in public? How do poet, poem, and context relate—and is there a hierarchy? And does “poetry” even exist?
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund, the film is a communal portrait of exploration--not of what poetry should be but of what it can be.
Credits
Produced by:::::::
OBJECT:PARADISE
Directed & Edited by:::::::
Tyko Say
Assistant Director:::::::
Sandra Pasławska
Creative Curation:::::::
OBJECT:PARADISE
Slam Poetry SK
ARS LATRANS
Art Portal
Director of Cinematography:::::::
Václav Šulc
Additional Video Operation:::::::
Dinora Tashmetova
Tyko Say
Robert Carrithers
Director of Photography:::::::
Jan Černy
Additional Photo Operation:::::::
Robert Carrithers
Martin Hataš
Marta Zelent
Louis Armand
Tyko Say
Set Design:::::::
Tyko Say
Sandra Pasławska
Nikodem Dybiński
Ula Kocjan
Alisa Marchenko
Marta Kaczmarek
Set Design Assistance:::::::
Jaromír Lelek
Karolina Kossakowska
Jo Blin
Mary Palencar
Ugljesa Janjic
Sara Belej
Casting Directors:::::::
Sandra Pasławska
Jaromír Lelek
Tomáš Straka
Zsolt Miklósvölgyi
Tyko Say
Readings and Performances by:::::::
Svetozár Šomšák
Viktória Citráková
Tomáš Železník
Zsolt Miklósvölgyi
Márió Z. Nemes
János Brückner-Szalóky
Márton Emil Tóth
Dominika Trapp
Michaela Králiková
Jo Blin
Adéla Hrdličková
Mary Palencar
Sasha Honigman
Michael Rowland
Tyko Say
Louis Armand
Mojmir Pukl
Jaromir Lelek
Sandra Pasławska
Leap Lembo
Eve Miller
Ugljesa Janjic
Sara Belej
Magdalena Kawecka
Wiktoria Kruk
Lenka Bondorová
Sounds and Compositions by:::::::
Alex Clov
Pola Trąbińska
Paweł Sikora
Bartek Szablowski
Honza Zhang
Pablo Gardu
Šimon Krejč
Location Managers:::::::
Sandra Pasławska
Karolina Kossakowska
Jaromír Lelek
Graphic design:::::::
Tyko Say
Video thumnail:::::
Jan Černy & Tyko Say
Funded by:::::::
International Visegrad Fund
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.