About project
The multimedia and multi-genre theatre Laterna Magika will celebrate its 65th anniversary at the Signal Festival. The project Emotional Memory connects the history and the present of art. The installation was prepared by director Tereza Vejvodová together with Laterna Magika’s artistic director Radim Vizváry. The authors decided to evaluate the most important milestones of Laterna Magika in terms of technology and ideas and to create something unusual out of them. In a timeless and fresh way, they work with the ideas, approaches, and practices of its founders Alfred Radok and Josef Svoboda. Visitors can walk through cyclical spaces – timelessness, past, present, and future. The main motif symbolizing the present occurs in the center of the environment.
The theme of the installation is the concept of “emotional memory”. The term was defined by the founding member of the ensemble Alfréd Radok. According to him, emotional memory resembles a process where two photographic negatives of real and artificial experience merge into one positive, on the basis of which it is possible to understand the codes of artistic expression. Emotional memory can connect the present (emotion) with the past (memory) and is a fundamental principle centered on the human being, not technology. When we try to visualize our future, we are engaging our emotional memory. The installation is supported by live performances of performers who will be confronted by the audience entering a space full of lights, video projections, and sounds.
The director and author of the concept is Tereza Vejvodová.
Every half an hour you can look forward to a performance by the performers.
The Museum of the City of Prague will open the doors of its main building in Florence for an extraordinary event
Signal Festival in cooperation with the Museum of the City of Prague will offer visitors an unusual experience. For the first time since the reconstruction began, the main building in Florence will be open to the public for a few days. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to enter its second floor.
The building doesn’t have barrier-free access.
ARTISTIS TEAM
director and concept Tereza Vejvodová
supervision Radim Vizváry
choreography Alexandr Sadirov
scene design Kateřina Jirmanová
interactive projection Nicola Pavone
projection Julius Štefan
music Džian Baban, Šimon Herrmann
sound design Jan Brambůrek
costumes Petra Vlachynská
performers
Adéla Abdul Khaleg
Kristýna Koudelová
Lukáš Homola
Taro Tamura
