Open Call

Open Call for participants in the art project “Generations Together”

We seek participants of all ages, from 15-99+ to take part in the project, which will investigate and engage in the city of Trencin, through art and creative exploration.

Dates: 18-27 Oct 2024
Place: TBD

About the project Generations Together
The Generations Together project connects people of different ages and allows them to see their generationally different stories and perspectives in the context of the city of Trenčín. The project takes place between 2024-2026 through a variety of educational, artistic and community activities that will enable intergenerational dialogues and cultivate a mutual relationship to the city across different perspectives, histories and personal testimonies.

Workshop
The workshop is a format, which will consist of four different artistic workshops. Each workshop will explore Trencin as a city/culture/home/geography through the theme of Kruh, as a symbol of life’s cycles, inclusion, community and the unfolding of history. As a participant you will join one of these four workshops, which will create a place for creative learning, exploring Trencin and create new inter-generational connections.

The workshops will be:

FILM/VIDEO
with Mátyás Prikler, Štefan Straka and Samuel Alex Jasaň from MPhilms (SK)
During this workshop short documentaries and experimental films will be made, which will explore the relationships between generations. One of the prompts will be to create a “cross documentary portrait” – we will create intergenerational pairs of participants, who will make short video portraits of each other. We will include the city of Trenčín in the film as well: we will be looking for circles in the city and seek what the circle means – visually, socially, esthetically. Come collaborate with the filmmakers from MPhilms, which produces films and documentaries, as well as smaller film projects with a cause.

PHOTOGRAPHY
with Gabriela Zigová and Lucia Kotvanová (UK/SK)
We will blend traditional black-and-white photography with cutting-edge digital media, including photoshop and artificial intelligence. Photographs developed using conventional methods will be digitized and enhanced through scanning and AI technology. This workshop will explore the concept of the circle, focusing on symbolism, cycles, and repetition. Gabriela Zigová, originally from Trenčín and now based in London, is using photography, performance, site-specific and interactive installations to explore the body, social situations, cultural contexts and political events. She will collaborate with visual artist and gallery educator Lucia Kotvanová to merge various generational approaches in photography.

PERFORMANCE + COOKING
with Rokko Juhasz, Mads Floor Andersen, Irene Lucas and Christoph Euler (SK, DK, E, AT).
In this Lab we will explore food and cooking through body senses and memories. How does food connect us to childhood and to places and people? Irene and Chirstoph have explored their term urban ecologies over the past 10 years – finding new strategies to live in the Urban landscape through public actions, food and plants.
Rokko and Mads have respectively worked with performance art, where they have expored food artistically and how we can use our senses to get in touch with the places where we live

CITY – HEART – BODY – VOICE
with Viktor Fuček and Dominika Belanská (SK and SK)
Vytvoríme spoločný kruh – bezpečný priestor, v ktorom sa uvoľníme do experimentu s pohybom a hlasom. Preskúmame rôzne miesta v Trenčíne a nájdeme autentické spôsoby ako sa prejaviť a svojím telom komunikovať dojmy, spomienky a príbehy. Takto sa naučíme sa navzájom naozaj počuť a nájdeme nové možnosti ako vytvárať vzťahy k ľuďom a prostrediu, v ktorom žijeme. Lektorov Viktora Fučeka a Dominiku Belanskú spája vzdelanie v oblasti architektúry a záujem o iný – citlivý, rešpektujúci, priam posvätný prístup k priestoru a vzťahom v ňom.

Application
Everybody can apply regardless of age, background and level of art experience.

To apply, we ask you to fill out the form below, by:
-Selecting 2 workshops (choice A and B) you wish to participate in.
-Answering one question
-Selecting the dates and times you can participate

If you have any questions, please contact us on: generacie.spolu@gmail.com

Looking forward to hearing from you

Warm greetings,
Generations Together Team
Dominika, Rokko, Viktor and Mads

Need contact details
generacie.spolu@gmail.com