The installation follows the Celerist, a noir detective trapped in the strange world of “Pumpkinville,” reminiscent of The Truman Show.
- Jan 2025
In this surreal reality, the main character is a pumpkin, unaware of the artificial world she inhabits. As the Celerist desperately tries to help the pumpkin wake up to the truth, uncovering the cracks in the constructed reality,
- Jan 2025
Pumpkineville
a short film and installation commissioned by Steirischer Herbst 2024,
Install View Neue Galerie Graz
- Jan 2025
Jakub Jansa, “Pumpkinville”, A short film (15mins, 4k) and installation created by Jakub Jansa, commissioned by Steirischer Herbst 2024, Install View Neue Galerie Graz,
Curated Curated: Ekaterina Degot, David Riff, Pieternel Vermoortel
The installation follows the Celerist, a noir detective trapped in the strange world of “Pumpkinville,” reminiscent of The Truman Show. In this surreal reality, the main character is a pumpkin, unaware of the artificial world she inhabits. As the Celerist desperately tries to help the pumpkin wake up to the truth, uncovering the cracks in the constructed reality, the pumpkin remains blissfully oblivious, even as everything around her begins to crumble. Through this narrative, film critiques the illusions and falsehoods that underpin much of today’s cultural and nationalistic ideologies.
New installation and film follows the Celerist, a noir detective trapped in the strange world of “Pumpkinville,” reminiscent of The Truman Show. In this surreal reality, the main character is a pumpkin, unaware of the artificial world she inhabits. As the Celerist desperately tries to help the pumpkin wake up to the truth, uncovering the cracks in the constructed reality, the pumpkin remains blissfully oblivious, even as everything around her begins to crumble. Through this narrative, film critiques the illusions and falsehoods that underpin much of today’s cultural and nationalistic ideologies.
author: jakub jansa
dop: kryštof hlůže
producer: kristýna kapounová
production company: closer
performance: jan kostiha, jamilya andreyeva, soňa beaumont,
patrik petr, peter hosking, olesia adamovich
editor: sebastian kučkovský
costume designer: karolína juříková
make-up artist: tereza tartusa
dramaturgy: alice krajčířová
music & sound: oliver torr
production assistant: julie sroková
1st ad: max horn
costumes assistant: adéla holušková, valerie jurčíková,
alex pýchová
make-up assistant: markéta němcová
b cam: filip smil
1st ac: jakub volena
2nd ac: tony šmaus
sound recordist: tom richman
lights: ondřej puritscher
lights trainee: lukáš masák
propmaster: henry trung
prop guy: patrick-djouno djakoualno
bts: shot by us
colorist: kryštof melka
graphic design: martin groch
sfx: eliška pitráková
location: autoklub české republiky, fzg studio
walkies: jakub koula - kluci base
extras: emel ameti, barbora gábová, daniel batrla, sergey akentyev, timur mirzakulov, julia chumakova, tatiana rozenberg
Jakub Jansa
Works with film, installation, and performance.
Explores issues of hierarchy, class, and contemporary social issues.
- Jan 2025
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Bio
Jakub Jansa is an artist who works with film, installation, and performance. His exhibition series Club of Opportunities features a hybrid figure of a human and a celery root. Through this figure, he explores issues of hierarchy, class, and cultural relationships. He employs fiction, humor, and elements of the grotesque to create exhibition environments that tell stories about contemporary social issues.
In 2021 was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In 2023 had an extensive solo exhibition at the Stone Bell House of the Prague City Gallery. He has also presented his work at Pioneer Works (2018) and Anthology Film Archives (2023) in New York, the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2021), HEK in Basel (2020), and the 6th Athens Biennale (2018). His work Shame to Pride is part of the new permanent exhibition at the National Gallery Prague. In 2022 he created an new comprehensive work for the exhibition Flower Union, which was organized by the National Gallery Prague on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The latest, ninth episode of Club of Opportunities was commissioned for the 57th steirischer herbst (2024) at the Neue Galerie Graz.
Awards
2021: Jindřich Chalupecký Award
Residencies
2023: Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2022: KULT XL Ateliers, Brussels, Belgium
2017: CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
2015: Five Eleven, New York, USA
2013: Watch Out, Engstligenalp, Basel, Switzerland
Extensive commissioned works:
2024: Steirischerherbst, Pumpkineville
a new short film and installation
2022: National Gallery in Prague, Opening Ceremony,
a new short film and installation
2021: 34th Ljublana Biennial, It's so physical II,
a multi-channel video installation
2021: Meet Factory Gallery, It's so physical I
a multi-channel video installation
2021: CJCH Award, Shame to Pride,
a new short film and installation
Cinematic Screenings:
2023: Club of Opportunities series,
Anthology Film Archives, New York, US
2024: Club of Opportunities series
35th Liffe, Ljubljana international Film festival, SLO
Collections
National Gallery Prague,
Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
Prague City Gallery Collection (GHMP)
Havrlant Art Collection
Museum of Literature, Prague
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2023: Garden of Problems, (1/3 Thinking Through Film), curator: Sandra Baborovská, GHMP House at the Stone Bell, Prague, CZ
2021: Shame to Pride, curators: Lea Vene, Lovro Japundžić, Mocvara Gallery, Zagreb, CRO
2018: Club of Opportunities, curatorial team: PAF, Pioneer Works, New York, USA
2018: Britannica Bootcamp, curator: Élodie Gallina, CAAC, Strasbourg, FR
2018: Keeping in Line, curator: Pavel Kubesa, NoD, Prague, CZ
2018: My Name is Red Herring, curator: Jiří Ptáček, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017: Club of Opportunities: Bowling Bar, curator: Jan Vítek
Hunt Kastner, Prague, CZ
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023: End of the Black-and-White Era 1939–2021: Permanent Collection of the National Gallery Prague
Curators: Michal Novotný, Eva Skopalová, Adéla Janíčková
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2023: Publiek Park
Curators: Jef Declercq, Anna Laganovska, Koi Persyn & Adriënne van der Werf
Harmoniepark, Albertpark & Provincietuin, Antwerp, Belgium
2022-2023: Flower Union
Curator: Michal Novotný
EU Council, Brussels, Belgium and
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2021: 34th Ljubljana Biennial
Curator: Tjaša Pogačar
Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021: Jindřich Chalupecký Award Exhibition
Curator: Veronika Čechová
Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2018: Club of Opportunities at 6th Athens Biennale
Curatorial Team: Stefanie Hessler, Kostis Stafylakis, Poka-Yio
Athens, Greece
2016: Better Ideas for life 1 & 2
Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic and Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
Publications:
Jakub Jansa, Club of Opportunities:
The Garden of Problems
Texts by: Michal Novotný, Julie Béna, Kamil Nábělek, Noemi Purkrábková, Jozef Mrva Jr., Ernestyna Orlowska, Klára Vlasáková, Jan Bělíček
Publisher: UMPRUM
ISBN: 978-80-88308-55-3
Thinking Through Film
Editors: Jiří Anger, Sandra Baborovská
Texts by: Jiří Anger, Sandra Baborovská, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Noemi Purkrábková, Ondřej Vavrečka
Publisher: GHMP
ISBN: 978-80-7010-194-0
Mapping Moving Images: Media, Actors, and Places in the Czech Environment
Editors: Martin Mazanec, Sylva Poláková
Publisher: National Film Archive
ISBN: 978-80-7004-199-4
Supernova: Studio of Supermedia, UMPRUM
Editor: David Kořínek
Publisher: UMPRUM
ISBN: 978-80-87989-79-1
Lectures
2024: TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland
2024: CAMP, Prague, Czech Republic
2023: Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
2019: CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018: Cooper Union, New York, USA
2017: Cooper Union, New York, USA
2017: FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic
2017: CAAC, Strasbourg, France
2013: Engstligenalp, Basel, Switzerland
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The Garden of Problems
Book
Uncovers the themes addressed
in the Club of Opportunities through the essays
of the invited authors
- Jan 2024
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Title: Club of Opportunities: The Garden of Problems
Book language: English-Czech edition
Author: Jakub Jansa
Designed by: Robert Jansa, Petr Bosák, Martin Groch
Publisher: UMPRUM
ISBN: 978-80-88308-55-3
Selling price: 550 CZK
Binding: paperback
Number of pages: 276
Annotation: The book uncovers the themes addressed in the Club of Opportunities, an episodic project created by artist Jakub Jansa, starring hybrid human-vegetable creatures who question authority and cultural and class relationships. Through the texts of the invited authors (Michal Novotný, Julie Béna, Kamil Nábělek, Noemi Purkrábková, Jozef Mrva Jr., Ernestyna Orlowska, Klára Vlasáková, Jan Bělíček), we get to the bottom of multiple problems – with celeriac ontology, black magic, humour, losing vision of the future and especially with taking root. Jakub Jansa works in various media ranging from film to sculptural elements, installations and live performances. Each of the exhibition events tends to merge with the architecture of the space they inhabit. They are reminiscent of film or TV sets where the narrative gradually unfolds through a carefully designed dramaturgy of various elements (video, objects, live action) while we – the visitors – move through the space.
The Garden of Problems
GHMP, Prague City Gallery
8 November 2023 - 18 February 2024
We get to the bottom of multiple problems here – with celeriac ontology, black magic, humour, losing vision of the future and especially with taking root.
- Dec 2023
Artist: Jakub Jansa
Exhibition title: The Garden of problems
Curator: Sandra Baborovská
Part of venue: Thinking Through Film
Location: 1. floor of the the Stone Bell House, GHMP, Prague
Dates: 8. 11. 2023 – 18. 2. 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and GHMP, Prague, foto: Jan Kolský
The first floor of gothic Stone Bell House, is dedicated to Jakub Jansa’s Garden of Problems project, which for the first time brings together episodes from the Club of Opportunities series, dating from 2017 to the present. Viewers visit the gallery instead of “Netflixing.” The Garden of Problems show presents seven successive episodes in seven halls, which together form a complex story.The series thematizes social issues of our time and raises questions about authority and cultural and class relationships. Underprivileged entities turn into elites and vice versa, with new opportunities arising during this transformation. Each episode creates situations between reality and fiction, gradually revealing the story through video, objects, set design and acting performance.
Author and director: Jakub Jansa
Collaborators: Kamil Nábělek, Kryštof Hlůže, Karolína Juříková, Oliver Torr, Dominik Dabrowski, Alice Krajčířová, Sebastian Kučkovský, Iryna Drahun, Matěj Martinec, Kryštof Hlůže, Eliška Pitráková, Nicolas Atcheson, Růst Cakes Performance: Jan Kostiha, Ester Geislerová., Kamil Nábělek,
Trin Alt Vajd, Mark.ta VuTru, Dexton Kotora, Katsuhiro Iwashita, Veronika Čechmánková., Jakub Samek, Zai Xu, Linda Vondrová., Rokhaya Gueye, Anita Lubadika, Adéla Sobotková., Mary Nguyen, Linh Nguyen, Agáta Hrnčířová.
1.
We follow the character of the Seer (Oracle), who no longer has a vision of the future and feels anxious. We witness the Seer touching all celeriacs and giving them tattoos with socially beneficial functions. The form of a confessional interview is complemented by emotional, music-tinged interludes, as the Seer tattoos the celeriacs with the names of various positively perceived occupations or rather functions or destinies. A deconstruction of storytelling in relation to expected role choices and expected scenarios is at the core of the work.
2.
The character of the Red Herring, a hybrid creature between a human and a celeriac, is introduced. And now he’s challenging his origin, i.e., revolting against the Seer. He discovers that mythology is mere narrative. By taking control of this narrative, he can steer it in a different direction. He leaves his safe place within the myth to enter the battlefield and fight on a political level. He finds his own individuality and becomes a dark-side influencer
3.
Red Herring works in an avocado bar, where he compares himself to elites—the avocados. He wants to become part of the higher vegesociety. In the process, he must undergo an insulting battle with his inner self. He doubts himself and experiences an identity crisis.
4.
We observe the celerist in yet another surprising situation - he gains status in the vegesociety and is invited into avocado circles. However, he cannot internally relate to this new social
class. At the same time, he has already made a break with the environment from which he emerged. He experiences an intense sense of rootlessness and can only be relieved by class and social coming out. He founds a movement for uprooted vegetables.
5.
In the position of the hot vegetable of the season, the celerist is invited to speak at the Flower Union’s gala event. The supernatural figure of the Seer, no longer able to predict the future, takes over the second part of the programme and activates the decorative flowers in an eco-sexual celebratory ritual. The Seer shows the plants that if they put their pistils and calyxes together, they can reach out to the public and change the course of things. So let’s hope that the ability to see into the future returns again.
DESCRIPTION OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE
When Celeriac Decides to
Break Through the Glass Ceiling
The work of artist Jakub Jansa develops theories
and observations about social hierarchy through
precarised vegetables and the privileged avocado.
- Nov 2023
Text by Jan Bělíček
A visual artist, Jakub Jansa has been working on a rather unique art project for several years. Exactly according to the opening motto of his new book Club of Opportunities, he “settled into the comfort zone of his mind” and began to develop the fates of several fictional characters through his installations with the help of theorist Kamil Nábělek. At the very beginning there was allegedly a miniature budget for the new project, for which Jansa bought ten celery roots and called the theorist Kamil Nábělek to see if he knew how to use them creatively. The eccentric thinker Nábělek immediately began to develop a theory of celeriac ontology and to talk about the hierarchies of vegesociety. At the very bottom of this hierarchy is the unattractive and neglected celery root. The admired and praised avocado works as its complete opposite. These are the two poles of the social hierarchy between which this whole art project moves. Why celery root and avocado?
Celery root is one of the most overlooked crops in Nábělka’s ontology. People often consume it only as an obligatory component of meals. It is an ingredient that is necessary in most dishes, but aesthetically it is almost nonexistent for us. It doesn’t taste unique on its own, there is no special story built around it as an important superfood, and its appearance doesn’t promise anything fantastic either. We don’t usually think about the taste and aroma of celery root, even though its contribution to the final enjoyment of a meal is often irreplaceable. Its presentation in supermarket chains is very simple, and proper celery root is sold covered in layers of soil, which signifies its freshness but also clearly defines its place in the spatial hierarchy of the vegesociety.
Jansa’s long-term art project was created in 2017 and includes eight projects so far. The last episode of Opening Ceremony was part of the presentation of contemporary Czech art in Brussels during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In November, for the first time, it will be possible to see all these episodes together in one place at the Thinking Through Film exhibition at the Prague Stone Bell House, where one entire floor will be dedicated to Jansa. The exhibition is planned to be a set of several video installations with performative elements, mixing an accomplished visual language with humour, contemporary leftist theory, and exploration of political strategies on social media, but also including comedy, absurdity, and playfulness. The installation will probably include Kamil Nábělek, who will casually explain to the audience what phase of the story they are in and what dynamics of the action they are observing.
Jansa’s artistic project basically follows, over a long period of time, two main characters whose fates he gradually develops in each instalment of the project. One of them is the Wisewoman, a kind-hearted and empathetic character who is going through an inner crisis and has paradoxically lost her ability to predict the future. For Jakub Jansa, this figure partly represents the crisis of liberalism and liberal democracy. The Wisewoman used to be someone who had a natural place in society and could guess, relatively effortlessly, what the near future would bring. But now she is struggling and feels that she no longer understands the contemporary world.
The second important character is the Celerist, half human, half celery root, and a bit of an outsider to the vegesociety. The Celerist is a human who starts at the very bottom and we follow his inner development which in many ways follows the important social debates of the last few years. In the third episode, 2018’s My Name is Red Herring, Celerist is suddenly an arrogant and somewhat comical alt-right influencer. In the video, which features aesthetics reminiscent of speeches by motivational coaches, Celerist advises the audience on how to crack down on leftist opponents. In this work, Jansa partly follows up his diploma thesis Spiritual Fitness, in which he worked on the phenomenon of motivational coaches and their rhetorical manipulations.
Celerist’s far-right anger stems mainly from his social status. As people become more interested in him, his aspirations change. Suddenly he craves admiration and fame. For the first time, he hesitantly begins to observe the higher, avocado class of beings in the vegesociety and wants to penetrate these higher levels. Back in 2018, in the fifth episode entitled Keeping in Line, Celerist confronts his own conscience. His conscience reminds him, subtly at first and then more insistently, that he is gradually losing his true identity and trying to be something he is definitely not. His interaction with his conscience is brisk, comic, and visually appealing, but at the same time contains a deeper message concerning issues of authenticity and social mobility.
For the wider public, the figure of Celerist became visible in 2021 when Jansa won the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In the Pražák Palace of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the story of Celerist became part of a collective exhibition of several prominent contemporary artists, thus indirectly communicating with the works of Robert Gabris, Valentýna Janů, Anna Ročňová, and the björnsonova art collective. The video installation clearly showed that, for the first time, the artists had the financial and institutional support making it possible to bring their vision to formal perfection. The seventh episode, Shame to Pride, marks the provisional peak of the series and is the most accomplished visually and conceptually as well as in terms of acting, set design, design and camera, and lighting work.
At this exhibition, the audience encountered Celerist in his self-inquiring phase. Through hard work, he has finally managed to break into the upper echelons of society, but he feels out of place there. Pretentious avocados constantly let him know that he is not one of them, and he feels a whole range of social barriers that his celerist habitus is simply not up to. This episode perhaps most clearly picked up on some of the themes that are of key importance to contemporary art, namely questions of origin, social belonging, and the search for one’s own identity and authenticity in a world that, while craving the effect of authenticity, is also constantly increasing a gap between fact and fiction, self-design, and pure lies.
In the Celerist story, we find ourselves in a bizarre world where imagination permeates the well-known laws of contemporary society and where purely social issues intersect with the wilderness of vegetation. Jansa, assisted by Nábělek, sees the formation of hierarchies in the realm of fruit and vegetables, which in an absurd way copy the hierarchies we know from our social reality. He took a path radical in both aesthetic and thematic terms by deciding to anthropomorphize the issue. In many ways, this brilliant idea also brings with it very interesting aesthetic possibilities. Celerist, a celery root in human form, may fit in with the elite in the way he dresses and expresses himself, but his face shows the unpleasant roots that remind us of his being born from mud and dirt. Although he aspires to join the Club of the Highest Opportunities, his visual appearance immediately draws attention to the inappropriateness of these aspirations. In a grotesque and dramatically urgent way, he is reminiscent of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s exclamation that it is unimportant whether one goes up or down the social ladder. Class origin will always manifest itself in extreme situations, just as a person suddenly blushes.
In addition, Jansa’s opulent visual style also deals with the dilemmas facing today’s society. He stresses the importance of the search for sources of aggressive male energy, which mutates into increasingly radical political expressions and is driven forward by frustration and lack of appreciation. In the figure of the Wisewoman, he introduces into this game the wandering and groping of contemporary liberalism, which cannot confront these phenomena in any way and loses touch with reality and its own ideas about the future. He also reflects on how self stylization affects the formation of the identity of people today and observes how strongly the influence of social networks is imprinted on this process. Although his work appears to be an elaborate grotesquery about the rise and fall of a fictional character, it is in fact also a peculiar way of responding to disturbing tendencies in contemporary society. In each episode, he attempts to capture phenomena that escape other people’s observation and experience of reality while offering his own subtle comments and suggestions on how to relate to these disturbing phenomena. His work, however, effectively envelops these aspects in a visually opulent and witty form which leaves the viewer a great deal of room for imagination and reveals an experience of the elusiveness and openness towards reality that simply cannot be separated from the experience of contemporary life.
Jan Bělíček is the editor-in-chief of the Alarm online daily
RESUME
- Jul 2023
- Apr 2023
INTERVIEW
Be careful where you enter, brainiacs!
Interview Tjaša Pogačar and Jakub Jansa
- Mar 2023
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 8:
Opening Ceremony
What happens inside a floral puget during an important political meeting? Maybe flowers are not only decorative, beautiful and even more beautifully smelling. But what if they could be more proactive and get involved in issues of global proportions?
- Feb 2023
A film directed by Jakub Jansa, created for Flower Union exhibition produced by National Gallery Prague, as part of Czech Presidency of European Union 2022, Curated by Michal Novotný.
Opening Ceremony
10min, 4K video, 2022
In the world of plants, flowers have an irreplaceable representative and diplomatic role. Now they even have their own union, an infinite union in the circle of medicinal flowers. Their garden ceremony for the opening of the presidency is given in the form of what is known as an "appreciation dinner", a type of gala dinner, in our world, held for the elites and the media. As in the people's world, a comedian is invited, here in the form of a “Celery-man”. Hybrid characters between vegetable and human.
The supernatural figure of a claivoyante, no longer able to predict the future, takes over the direction of the second part of the film, activating decorative flowers in the form of an eco-sexual festive ritual. The fortune teller shows the plants that by putting pistils and calyxes together they can reach out to the public and change the course of things. So hopefully her ability to see into the future will return.
The work is also an open homage to several works of art history, such as Annie Sprinkle's Marriage to the Earth, or John Baldessari's Teaching the Alphabet of Plants, or Taryn Simon's series of photographs depicting bouquets standing on tables during important political meetings.
Director: Jakub Jansa
Script: Jakub Jansa, Dominik Dabrowski, Alice Krajčírová DOP: Kryštof Hlůže
DOP assistant: Tomáš Merta
Editor: Sebastian Kučkovský
Music: Oliver Torr
Costumes: Overall Office (Karolína Juříková, Kristýna Nováková) Photography: Iryna Drahun
Performance: Jan Kostiha, Ester Geislerová, Kamil Nábělek, Trin Alt Vajd, Markéta Vutru, Dexton Kotora, Katsuhiro Iwashita, Veronika Čechmánková, Jakub Samek, Zai Xu, Linda Vondrová, Rokhaya Gueye, Anita Lubadika, Adéla Sobotková, Mary Nguyen, Linh Nguyen, Agáta Hrnčířová
CGI: Matěj Martinec
Production: Agáta Hrnčířová
Make-up: Majda Vaverková
Mask: Eliška Pitráková
Sound master: Nicolas Atcheson
Grading: Kryštof Melka
Lights: Tomáš Prajsler
Focus puller: Mihir Khulkarmi
Costume assistant: Františka Králíková
Cake: Růst Cakes
Special thanks: Plevel (Beáta Melková), DJ Bingo, Umprum, Vít Svoboda, Jaroslav Gazda, NG Prague
FLOWER UNION
Installation view, National Gallery, Prague
10th February – 7th May 2023
- Feb 2023
Council of the European Union,
Brussels, Belgium
12th July – 31th December 2022
National Gallery, Prague
10th February – 7th May 2023
The project was conceived by: Jan Brož, Barbora Fastrová, Johana Pošová, Jakub Choma, Jakub Jansa, Valentýna Janů, Martin Kohout and Overall Office (Karolína Juříková and Kristýna Nováková).
And was produced by National Gallery Prague, as part of Czech Presidency of European Union 2022, Curated by Michal Novotný
As a part of this year’s Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union, nine young Czech artists and designers created decorations for two buildings in Brussels. These artists decided to use their work to express the values that the European Union embodies for them and which they believe it should continue to embody in the future. They also tried to highlight the idea of Europeanism rather than to simply present the Czech Republic as one of the member states. Their collective project, as well as their individual endeavours, are linked by the concept of a community of plants sharing a single piece of soil, thus also stressing the environmental agenda, which will reverberate strongly during the Czech Presidency.
The main symbol of the Czech Presidency is a wreath of twelve medicinal plants, and this has been incorporated in the design of the large, ecologically-manufactured carpet installed in the main area of the atrium in the building where Council meetings are held. The weaving of wreaths is an ancient, not only Slavic, tradition. Young unwed women cast wreaths into the river during the solstice to guarantee their romantic future. This symbolised not only the vitality of youth but also the natural continuation of life after leaving one’s home hearth.
In keeping with the main symbol for the artistic presentation of the Czech Presidency, the artists chose to replace the twelve gold stars on the EU flag with twelve medicinal plants from different European regions. The resulting wreath, in which the stems of each plant are twisted around those of the previous one to create a more interwoven and stronger bond, embodies a gesture promoting a stronger European togetherness between all of the EU’s unique and distinct regions. A union, which does not exclude local identities, folklore, or traditions.
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES Episode 7: Shame to Pride
Močvara Gallery, Zagreb
October 26-28 2021
- Oct 2021
Močvara Gallery, Zagreb
October 26-28 2021
Writer and Director: Jakub Jansa
Character Development: Kamil Nábělek, Jakub Jansa
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže
Sound: Oliver Torr
Performance: Jan Kostiha, Soňa Beaumont, Ester Geislerová, Jakub Jansa
Costumes: Karolína Juříková, Daily Menu
Post-Production: Šimon Hájek, Jakub Jansa
FX, Colorgrading: MagicLab, Vojtěch Štětka
Sound Recording: Juras Karaka, Tomáš Jiřička
Lights: Petr Cuker
Masks: Eliška Pitráková
Makeup Artist: Vendula Niklová
Technical Crew: Michal Pustějovský
Dramaturgy: Jan Strejcovský
Screenprinting: Matěj Doležel
Backstage Photography: Iryna Drahun
Runner: Maria Jančová
Thanks to: FAVU, UMPRUM, Autoclub ČR
The motif of the Celerist’s “coming of age” continues in the seventh episode, created for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Again, the external context provides an interior motive for the entire episode. The Celerist has finally scaled the imaginary vegetable social ladder and joined the avocado group. At the same time, he finds himself unable to fully sympathise with the new context; he experiences an existential crisis and decides to “come out” about his class and social background. Jansa himself comes from a position outside of the cultural centre. The need to change the social structure, the difficulty of which, in the art world, lies mainly in grasping what the art scene is talking about addressing at any given time, is also a critique of the mythology of work, sport and self-discipline as a tirelessly promoted opportunity for liberation, a mythology of equal opportunities. Here again, Jansa used recycled materials in the installation, mirrored boards from film sets.
- Oct 2021
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 7:
Shame to Pride
- Sep 2021
Venues:
(1) Jindřich Chalupecký Award
September 24, 2021 - 30/1/2022
Moravian Gallery, Brno
(2) Močvara Gallery, Zagreb
October 26-28 2021
Writer and Director: Jakub Jansa
Character Development: Kamil Nábělek, Jakub Jansa
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže
Sound: Oliver Torr
Performance: Jan Kostiha, Soňa Beaumont, Ester Geislerová, Jakub Jansa
Costumes: Karolína Juříková, Daily Menu
Post-Production: Šimon Hájek, Jakub Jansa
FX, Colorgrading: MagicLab, Vojtěch Štětka
Sound Recording: Juras Karaka, Tomáš Jiřička
Lights: Petr Cuker
Masks: Eliška Pitráková
Makeup Artist: Vendula Niklová
Technical Crew: Michal Pustějovský
Dramaturgy: Jan Strejcovský
Screenprinting: Matěj Doležel
Backstage Photography: Iryna Drahun
Runner: Maria Jančová
Thanks to: FAVU, UMPRUM, Autoclub ČR
The 7th episode of the Club was made for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021 exhibition. It portrays Celeriac again in a surprising situation: he has symbolically moved up within the vegesociety and been invited into Avocado circles. However, he cannot relate internally to this new social class and, despite the respect he has earned, feels no sense of belonging with anyone around him. At the same time, he has already broken ties with his home environment. He experiences an intense feeling of rootlessness and the only thing that can help is a coming out of his class.
I’S SO PHYSICAL
"An absurd tale about a fictitious conspiracy of tapeworms, who narrate the story, deals with collective trauma."
- Jun 2020
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I's so physical
(6-channel video, full HD)
Venue: Meetfactory Gallery, Prague
Date: 25. 5. - 16. 8. 2020
Curator: Tereza Jindrová
Commissioned by MeetFactory for Spiritualities show including artists Jakub Jansa, Melanie Bonajo, Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon
Jansa deals uniquely with collective trauma, using exaggeration and playfulness. Simultaneously, he diverts the theme of spirituality onto another path. An absurd tale about a fictitious conspiracy of tapeworms, who narrate the story, raises a sarcastic eyebrow at the idea that “leaving the body is so fucking easy today”. In the background, then, remains a question we each must ask ourselves: how do we want to, and how can we experience authentic connection with the world around us and achieve inner transformation while remaining aware of the daily material reality of all of those bodies
→ Complete text by Tereza Jindrová in PDF
Camera: Kryštof Melka, Sound design: Eva01, Sound recording: Petr Kolev, Performers: Viola Tůmová, Jan Kostiha,
Soňa Beaumont, Patrik Petr, 3D: Josef Mrva, Styling: Karolína Juříková, Photo: Studio Flusser © 2020
The Club of Opportunities
- Dec 2019
"Each episode of The Club (i.e. exhibition) introduces new characters and plot twists. Each exhibition creates a situations which hover between reality and fiction, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action. Through mixed genres, from drama to absurdity, The Club thematise archetypal social topics and gradually uncovers the anatomy of mythology and storytelling. The main protagonist is the overlooked vegetable - Celeriac.
Club of Opportunities reflects upon strategies of dark-side influencers, posing questions of hierarchical relationships and authority. In the context of vegetable hierarchy Celeriac finds itself on very low position. In the supermarkets we can find Celeriac roots situated on the bottom shelves, Avocados are always highlighted in the center. Over the course of the past six episodes, low forms elevate in status into the high ones and vice versa. Somewhere during that transformation, new opportunities were created.
The main storyteller is Kami Nábělek, a fairly eccentric philosopher who makes live appearances at The Club’s openings and then on occasion during the run of the shows. He delivers speeches full of scientific and pseudoscientific concepts and reveals key moments in the current story."
Season 1:
PAF Pioneer Works
Episode 6:
Ten Years Night
Episode 5:
Keeping in Line
Episode 4:
Britannica Bootcamp
Episode 3:
My name is Red Herring
Episode 2:
April showers bring May flowers
Episode 1:
Bowling Bar
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Season 1:
PAF New York, Pioneer Works
"The First season of The Club offered all previous episodes in a common place. Low forms elevated in status into the high ones and vice versa. Somewhere during that transformation, new opportunities were created."
- Dec 2019
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES S1: PAF Pioneer Works
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: Pioneer Works, New York
Curator: PAF & Alexander Campaz
Date: November 20th, 2018
PW presentation of The Club offered five previous episodes in one place. Exhibition created a situations which hover between reality and fiction. Through mixed genres - from drama to absurdity - The Club thematise archetypal social topics and gradually uncovers the anatomy of mythology and storytelling. Over the course of the past episodes, low forms elevate in status into the high ones and vice versa. Somewhere during that transformation, new opportunities were created.
The main hero of the whole story is the overlooked vegetable - Celeriac. The main storyteller is Kami Nábělek, a fairly eccentric Prague philosopher who makes live appearances at The Club’s openings and then on occasion during the run of the shows. He delivers speeches full of scientific and pseudoscientific concepts and reveals key moments in the current story.
Cast: P.Petr, J.Kostiha, E.Geislerová, K.Nábělek, Live performace: K.Nábělek, J.Jansa, Camera: K.Melka, K.Hlůže, J.Jansa, Production: PAF, A.Campaz, Nela Klajbanová Photo: J.Jansa, W. Wlodarczyk © 2018
“April showers bring May flowers (Ep.2)” co-author: Karolína Juříková.
Work was part PAF New York 2018, commissioned by PAF, with Pioneer Works support.
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 6:
Ten Years Night
"The character of philosopher Kamil Nábělek walks through the screens and gives a permanent guided tour of the exhibition. He reveals key moments in the current story. The sixt episode is based in Mihelic’s Gas Station, reminding us of celeriac."
- Sep 2019
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CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 6: Ten Years Night
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: Mihelic’s Gas Station, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: September 26 – October 29, 2019
The sixth iteration of an immersive multi-channel art project that explores polyphonic ideas about the nature of reality in the 21st century, albeit with a silent twist. Instead of bombarding viewers with overly didactic wall labels and long convoluted texts, the video installation is composed of narrators who debate the nature of reality from the perspective of a celery root.
→ Complete text by Dorian Batycka in PDF
Cast: P.Petr, J.Kostiha, E.Geislerová, K.Nábělek, Live performace: K.Nábělek, J.Jansa, Camera: K.Melka, K.Hlůže, J.Jansa, Graphic design: M.Groch, J.Horčík Photo: J.Jansa © 2019
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 6:
Ten Years Night
- Sep 2019
- Oct 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 5:
Keeping in Line
"We see Red Herring, a hybrid creature between a human and a celery, working on the Avocado Bar, where he is comparing himself with star avocados. And he wants to become a part of higher veggiesiety. During that he must undergo an insulting duel with his inner self. He is self-doubtful and experiences identity crizes. In the context of vegetable hierarchy celery finds itself on very low position. In the supermarkets we can find celery roots situated on the bottom shelves, avocados are always highlighted in the center."
- Oct 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 5: Keeping in Line
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: NoD Gallery, Prague
Date: 23. 10. - 26. 11. 2018
Curator: Pavel Kubesa
Text: Domenico de Chirico
Red Harring is here ready to fight against himself in a cerebral and almost videogame-y "mise en scène" centred around his own two battling personalities, each constantly trying to take control of his attitude towards the outside world.
His poetry, seemingly twisted and dreamlike, is based on expanded and elaborate metaphors and his language, carefully structured and polished, turns out to be intentionally rhetorical, a sort of subversive declamation designed to deconstruct the more traditional spoken narration.
Based on his empirical experience, he describes characters and archetypal situations deliberately transforming their nature through a motion that goes from the top down and viceversa, so as to achieve a distinctive poetry and structuring the plot from time to time to create multiple interesting themes and to show various possible points of view.
→ Complete text by Domenico de Chirico in PDF
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže, Performance: Patrik Petr, Jan Kostiha Jakub Jansa, Kamil Nábělek, Graphic design: Jan Horčík Photo: Tomáš Souček © 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 5:
Keeping in Line
- Oct 2018
- Sep 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 4:
Britannica Bootcamp
"Other celerists are shocked by Red Herring’s acting, but they don't know how to react. That's why they are looking for help. They are based in the departmant called Britanica Bootcamp, reminding us of a hybrid of training camp and library. Soo, on which page to start, hm?"
- Sep 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 4: Britannica Bootcamp
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
Date: September 20 – October 28, 2018,
Curator: Elodie Gallina
Oh yes! We're here. This is the fourth episode of The Club of Opportunities. We're in the middle of a story which started a little bit earlier, let's say in some mythological proto-form and maybe the story is only starting to show itself. We don't know yet.
Other celerists are shocked by Red Herring’s acting, but they don't know how to react. That's why they are looking for help.
They are based in the departmant called Britanica Bootcamp, reminding us of a hybrid of training camp and library. Soo, on which page to start, hm?
→ Complete text by Kamil Nábělek in PDF
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže Kryštof Melka, Performace: Patrik Petr, Ester Geislerová, Jakub Jansa, Kamil Nábělek, Sound recording: Anna Žihlová, Graphic design: Jan Horčík Photo: Jakub Jansa © 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 4:
Britannica Bootcamp
- Sep 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 3:
My name is Red Herring
"The character of Red Herring, a hybrid creature between a human and a celery, is introduced. And now he’s revolting against the origin that gave birth to him, so he is revolting against the Seer. He discovers that this mythology is simply a storytelling. By taking control of this storytelling, he is able to steer it in a different direction. So from his safe place, inside the mythos, he enters a battlefield and wrestles on a political level. He is individualizing himself and becoming dark-side influencer."
- Apr 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 3: My name is Red Herring
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: Fotograf Galery, Prague
Date: March 20 - April 14, 2018
Curator: Jiří Ptáček
His allusion to the temple narthex with minimalist furniture that reminds one of store shelves, but which also breathes a rhythm of colored lights, intensifies an atmosphere that approximates a business-spiritual transaction, in which devilish demand accommodates a supply of skills that allow us to live through at least a small portion of life without a feeling of humiliation. But what if this is all just a clown-show. The series is a series only thanks to the transplanting of plants which, of course, have the gift of being able to take root in any conditions. Myth is an optional game whose rules can be changed as the moment requires. Skills are just crutches for all the legless and armless who cannot submit an alternative to force-based solutions to “social issues.” Movement in ambivalent escapism and untrustworthiness is, however, grounds for asking who exactly is Red Herring?
The character of Red Herring, a hybrid creature between a human and a celery, is introduced. And now he’s revolting against the origin that gave birth to him, so he is revolting against the Seer. So from his safe place, inside the mythos, he enters a battlefield and wrestles on a political level. He is individualizing himself and becoming dark-side influencer.
→ Complete text by Jiří Ptáček in PDF
Celerist: Patrik Petr, Live Performace: Jakub Jansa, Kamil Nábělek, Camera: Kryštof Melka, Kryštof Hlůže, Sound recording: Anna Žihlová, Graphic Design: Martin Groch
Photos: Tomáš Souček, Anna-Marie Bergrová, Kryštof Hlůže © 2018
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CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 3:
My name is Red Herring
- Apr 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 2:
April showers bring May flowers
"The character of SEER (Oracle), who has no vision of the future anymore and feels anxious. She looks for a way to be more active in forming the surrounding world and herself. She is trying to realize her own ambitions and desires for hope. We witness the SEER touching every individual celery root and getting them tattoo with positive functions."
- Mar 2018
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CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 2: April showers bring May flowers
(Exhibition creates an environments, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action)
Venue: AMU Gallery, Prague
March 14 - April 4, 2018
Curator: Lumír Nykl
Artists: Jakub Jansa & Karolína Juříková
If we wanna put it simply - It’s the story in which the character of SEER (Oracle) feels anxious in this world. She looks for a way to be more active in forming the surrounding world and herself. We witness the SEER touching every individual celery root and getting them tattoo with positive predictions - or functions. She is trying to realize her own ambitiotios and desires for hope.
The collaborative exhibition of Jakub Jansa and Karolína Juříková is the second part of a series whose pilot version originated as an invitation to Jansa’s own Club of Opportunities. The bowling bar became the setting for a seminar devoted to the ontology of celery for all the senses.
In this new, narrative episode featuring Karolína Juříková, our intrepid heroes relocate beneath the arched ceilings of GAMU for an initiatory séance of young stalks, their hag watching from backstage, where bodies flagrantly transform with the promise of a new beginning. An old sage rambles from her ritually refurbished throne, her avuncular visage showing signs of new hope. Through the rejuvenated language of folk verbiage, we call for a new spring of shared imagination.
→ Complete text by Lumír Nykl in PDF
creature: Ester Geislerová
camera: Kryštof Melka, Kryštof Hlůže
sound: Juraś Karaka
graphic: Martin Groch,
Jan Slabihoudek
production: Lenka Střeláková
Thanks to: Lenka Střeláková,
Jakub Chrenčík, Anežka Bartlová,
Eliška Žáková
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 2:
April showers bring May flowers
- Mar 2018
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
Episode 1:
Bowling Bar
"Philosopher Kamil Nábělek undertook the underestimated vegetable. His lecture about the ontology of the celery root brought this vegetables to the center of a new narrative. Second, the voice of an animated chipmunk transforms visitors into performers while encouraging them to imagine new opportunities for themselves. Third, live piano baroque rendition of Rihanna’s We Found Love in a Hopeless Place can be heard."
- Jul 2017
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CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES EP. 1
Bowling Bar
The Club took place at Bowling Club on July 29th, 2017 in Prague, organized by Hunt Kastner.
Composed By Jakub Jansa
Curator: Jan Vítek
Text: Christina Gigliotti
Performers: Kamil Nábělek, Michal Šupák,
Eva Spoustová, Soňa Tichá,
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže, Kryštof Melka,
Graphic Design: Jan Horčík,
Photos: Tomáš Souček, Filip Beránek, Filip Kopecký, Julie Slauka
The first episode offered various scenarios to interact with. First, Kamil Nábělek's lecture about the ontology of the celery, which brought this vegetables to the center of a new narrative. Second, the voice of an animated chipmunk transforms visitors into performers while encouraging them to imagine new opportunities for themselves. Third, live piano baroque rendition of Rihanna’s We Found Love in a Hopeless Place can be heard.
Through mixed genres - from drama to absurdity - The Club thematise archetypal social topics and gradually uncovers the anatomy of mythology and storytelling.
As a whole, the narrative is reminiscent of a typical TV series. Each episode of The Club (i.e. exhibition) introduces new characters and plot twists. Each exhibition creates an environment, where the narrative is gradually revealed through video, various objects, and ongoing live action.
→ Complete text by Christina Gigliotti in PDF
CLUB OF OPPORTUNITIES
(pdf document)
Episode 1:
Bowling Bar
- Jul 2017
SPIRITUAL FITNESS
(at Healing exhibition)
- Apr 2017
The exhibition Healing (Healing in the active and passive sense of the word) is based on the fact that personal health and a healthy way of life in today’s society (above all, but not only in the western world) is such a highly valued asset. that the pursuit of health sometimes seems almost cultic. The definition of “being healthy” is different in different cultures, and the healing methods and procedures are different.
Medicine, healing and therapy will be addressed, taking into account the existence of certain tensions and paradoxes: be they interfaces between rationality and belief, between science and magic, between healing applications and rituals, or between natural and artificial substances or aids. In today’s globalized world, it is often not easy to draw a clear line
between what is modern and progressive (qualities that we can associate with the development of technologies, science, chemistry, etc.) and what is in essence originated in a long tradition (which in turn is based on inherited knowledge, natural sources, but also on collective rituals and non-rational beliefs).
From the perspective of contemporary art, the exhibition as a whole intends to present various current perspectives on the topic of healing and health, thus placing the complex of issues in broader social, political and economic contexts. The fact that the exhibition builds on the tension between rational and irrational aspects of healing is a consequence of her concern to point out the close connection between these opposing aspects, which in the final analysis can not be separated.
February 22 - April 12, 2018
venue: Czech Center, Berlin
Curated by Tereza Jindrová
Exhibiting artists: Jana Doležalová, Marco Donnarumma, Romana Drdova, Jakub Jansa, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Martin Kohout, Uriel Orlov, Johana Střížková, Miroslava Večeřová & Pavel Příkaský
SPIRITUAL FITNESS
(pdf document)
- Nov 2016
SPIRITUAL FITNESS
at PAF
exhibition
- Nov 2016
Spiritual Fitness is a physical enhancement program created by artist Jakub Jansa. The intentions of this program are never explained nor it’s ultimate objective found. Perhaps the most interesting and intriguing aspect of this work of art is that the viewer is left to question the motives of the project, which situates itself between a self- help curriculum and social identity program that evokes an alienating yet communal experience akin †o a religious mindset. Although this program is a reflection and perhaps a critique of the rise and evolution of many of the physical enhancement communities that are prevalent today, the program is also a reflection of other aspects that are shaping global politics. Examples of contradicting rules of governance and control by contradiction are themes explored. From a historical point of view these questions are not new but they point towards an evolving and uncertain landscape of world politics today.
The world of Spiritual Fitness is a three part video series that unlocks the potential of the participant. As the viewer is introduced to the world of Spiritual Fitness a contradiction emerges that is inherit within the system. This duality is present in every action and every action can have two meanings. The opening lines of the first video titled Two Minutes starts with the lines “We smile when we feel happy but also when we are forced to smile it makes us feel happy so it goes both ways. When it comes to power it also goes both ways”.
From the opening lines the participant is asked to sacrifice the self in order to benefit from the rewards of the collective. Thus the act of smiling is meant as a social marker to connect oneself to the collective mind in physical form if not in mental form. This communal participation is reinforced in the second video installment titled One Touch where emphasis is given to scientific and mental powers of touch. As the narrator informs the viewer the very act of touch creates stronger bonds between those who adhere to the Spiritual Fitness ethos. But as soon as the viewer is introduced to the strong communal nucleus of the system in the second video the contradiction within the system emerges once more in the third and last installment titled Three Floors. Where as in the first video we are introduced to the multiplicity of an action like a smile and in the second the bond
of a touch in the third video we are introduced to the alienating aspect of the program. As the video beings the
narrator instructs the viewer towards an ambiguous action with no clear intention. This cryptic order, which separates those that understand the message and those that do not ultimately allow a person to attain further knowledge within the system. Although what must be done to unlock this action is never informed, the viewer is asked to practice in an empty elevator. The narrator explains that this is the best place to practice but it is upto the person to decide how much time is spent here. The danger and balance of this training can be both beneficial and detrimental. In the end the narrator warns “But think carefully, more practice makes your business”.
from essay by Alexander Campaz
SPIRITUAL FITNESS
at AAAD
exhibition
- Jun 2016
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Spiritual Fitness is a physical practise developed for Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD), presenting its complex self- development programe, in a form of public seminary. It is based on three video lessons (the first part talks about the development of self- confidence , second one is about the strengthening cooperation in working groups and third is summary). Lessons can be purchased at a special video cases, which are part of the gallery installation.
Day is night, water is fire, cocaine is not enough, depression does not exist. People are flying in the sky propelled by their own confidence. Everyone is going the same direction; to a brilliant day after tomorrow, and the work week begins and ends on Friday. The initial skepticism is like a plague, failure is prohibited and the winner is you. The path to self-confidence, positive thinking, success – that's Spiritual Fitness. An originally inconspicuous student movement has become today a possible model of a future studio at the School of Applied Arts, where weak individuals are being transformed into strong and resilient creatures. All this with with minimum effort invested. Two minutes and one touch is enough to mechanically reprogram the human body into a confident and solid mass. The movement of Spiritual Fitness aims to transform unconvincing presentations (by the weak voices of fragile shells) into indescribably wonderful lectures boasting punchlines from the dominant Supermen. At the beginning I also did not believe, but thanks to two minutes of sophisticated exercise, one is convinced about himself and his limitless choices and own brilliance.
Achieve self-confidence and healthy self-esteem is, in today's accelerated virtual world (which lacks empathy) incredibly difficult. Even creatively or technically talented individuals have problems making a mark because of strong doubts. Thanks goes to the laboratory of scientific studies that verifies various mechanical movements, and our highest hawk Jakub Jansa, who has discovered the secret source code of the human psyche. Day is night, water is fire, cocaine is not enough, depression does not exist. People are flying in the sky propelled by their own confidence. Everyone is going the same direction; to a brilliant day after tomorrow, and the work week begins and ends on Friday. The sun rose in the east and will no longer set. The initial skepticism is like a plague, failure is prohibited and the winner is you.
Directed by: Jakub Jansa
Camera by: Kryštof Hlůže, Kryštof Melka
Cast: Marie Jansová, William Valerián,
Agáta Nowaková, Petr Jakeš, Petr Hák
Voice: Dirk Wright
Sound: Jakub Jansa, Jaromír Hávorník, Kateřina Zochová,
Case objects: Jakub Jansa
Graphic Design: Štěpán Marko
Illustration: Luky
VVVV: Jan Nálepa
Photos: Michal Ureš, Peter Fabo
Web: Florian Karsten
SPIRITUAL FITNESS
at Better ideas for life 2nd ed.
group exhibition
- Jun 2016
BETTER IDEAS FOR LIFE
(pdf document)
- Jun 2015
NAME OF THE PROJECT IS PROJECT ITSELF
(pdf document)
- Jan 2015