Festival m3 / Art in Space: City Therapy – Prague 6 and Prague 7
The fifth year of the m3 / art festival in space continues the tradition – each of the previous years took place in a different district of Prague, carried a different theme and was prepared by a different curatorial pair. Thanks to this concept of preventing artistic stagnation, you can attend the festival, each year you may encounter completely different approaches and views of art and public space.
The theme of this year’s work is exploring the possibilities of art as a tool for the healing process of place and community, metaphorically speaking City Therapy. We realize that the city is not an inanimate backdrop of our lives, but one of its main actors. The dynamic pulse and the movement of the city affect us all – sometimes more, sometimes less. Its physical and mental functions directly affect the level of our individual condition. To fulfill our therapeutic goals, it is necessary to look for effective art forms and tools specific to public space – the public language of art. He can enter the discussion of city mayors in various ways: mood, questioning, revelation, inspiration, criticism… His manifestations can be material objects or social situations.
Fourteen artists or artistic groups who have a personal relationship to the selected locality – they have lived and worked here for a long time – were approached for the realization of the m3 2021 festival. Thus, he approaches his creative task not only from the position of an artist, but also as citizens – insiders who know the local conditions, with an inner motivation to initiate a positive transformation here. Together we tried to find in the area of both parts of the city several neuralgic points (places and themes) on the body of the urban organism and to inspire an activity that sees the city not only in terms of functional mechanism, but also as an environment of joy and surprise.
Curators: Jitka Hlaváčková and Ludvík Hlaváček
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