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9.5 2025 19h

Rouilleux & Fire Like Fire // Alternativa meets Vašulka Kitchen Brno

solo - duo - trio

A unique triple concert initiated by the Alternativa festival, where Cinder, Petr Vrba and Luboš Rezek met for the first time and a more permanent collaboration was established. The concert is also unique because the Alternativa festival is going beyond the borders of Prague for the first time with its concert series.

Koncert

Symposium The Vasulkas - Preserving Legacy

We would like to inform you about the symposium The Vasulkas - Preserving Legacy, organized by BERG Contemporary & The Vasulka Foundation on Saturday, May 10 in Iceland.   

15.5 2025 17h
Photo credits: Hochschuh & Donovan / artists

Katrin Hochschuh & Adam Donovan: CURIOUS TAUTOPHONE – TENSOR FIELD ONTOLOGY / opening

Vašulka Kitchen Brno cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Katrin Hochschuh & Adam Donovan: CURIOUS TAUTOPHONE – TENSOR FIELD ONTOLOGY on Thursday, 15 May 2025 at 5 PM at the House of the Lords of Kunštát. 

Vašulka Kitchen Brno & BAiR 2025

It is our pleasure to announce that for Vašulka Kitchen Brno 2025 residency program we selected media artist Cailean Finn. 

The decision was certainly not easy and we thank everyone else for their interest and the many excellent projects! 

5.10 2021 17h
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Artwork presentation of Haraldur Karlsson

Artist in Residence

This year’s artist in residence - Icelander Haraldur Karlsson - will showcase his artwork in Vašulka Kitchen on October 5. His presentation will also include a demonstration of a video experiment, which he is currently working on. Free entry.

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Haraldur Karlsson (b. 1967, Reykjavik) lives and works in Norway and is specialized in experimental video art for nearly 30 years. Between 1999 and 2009, Karlsson worked at the Icelandic Academy of Fine Arts as head of fine arts digital Media Lab. Karlsson is currently based in Oslo. He has had a number of exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures both in Norway and abroad.

Haraldur Karlsson has long been working with video media and experimenting with the possibilities of its technical parameters. It uses the latest technology in long-term projects and collaborates with a number of interdisciplinary experts. Karlsson’s own work is usually presented by Karlsson through an interactive artistic installation or performance at an exhibition or in a public space, which has become a place of critical reflection on the development and growth of contemporary society. Recently, the author has been interested in medical records of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) depicting the internal biological organs of the body, as well as data from astronomy or mathematical patterns of natural phenomena. Using digital technologies, the author transforms the exact and technical data into a poetic testimony with a distinctive choreography revealing their hidden aesthetic quality.

During his residence in Brno, he is working on a blueprint framework towards an updated, modernised version 2 of Image/Ine or similar. The original software, which allowed users to manipulate uncompressed video in real time, was developed in Steim in collaboration w Steina Vasulka in 90s and became very popular among artists. Haraldur will also experiment with available contemporary software and hardware and look for the same playfulness principles that many artists find in Image/Ine.

One of the presented artwork is Brain. Brain is a series of video products derived from personal artistic research on modern scientific discoveries and technological developments. Haraldur have MRI images of my son’s brain and with the help of scientific software that can focus on the thickness of the pulp, I have come across an endless (seemingly) opportunity for representations on this remarkable body. I have started a dialogue with researchers from the Norwegian University and have received positive feedback on possible collaboration. The project has, over time, been supported by Visual Artists’ Remuneration Fund, Gallery of Iceland and Atopia Center for Video Art and Experimental Film.

The fascination with the (almost) infinite possibilities of this detecting/imaging – the perfection in capturing the smallest of fibres, their thickness, length and shape – led Haraldur to dialogue and collaborate with scientists at the Norwegian University to develop the potential of his art practice. The artist has moved the still images through digital technologies into an audiovisual work in which the exact scientific data, on the one hand very concrete and real, appear at the same time as completely abstract, resembling the living structure of the microcosm. The video consists layers of images and detailed structures in which we penetrate deep into the bowels of the body, specifically the head, the place that controls our physical body, but also houses the mind and the whole elusive realm of thought and imagination. While MRI scans can capture the finest nuances and shades of physical matter, fibers and tissue, they cannot reveal anything about our minds. Haraldur’s videos lead us here, into a space of imagination and unexpected poetics; they are a kind of authorial interpretation of the contemporary scientific method. They show that the world around us is best understood neither through the exact scientific method nor through subjective individual imagination, but precisely in the combination of these two seemingly contradictory approaches.

The project was supported by the Artists’ Association, the Icelandic Gallery and the Atopia Center for Video Art and Experimental Film. The results of this project have been presented in various exhibitions in Norway, Iceland, Canada and China

The project can be realized with financial help of the Statutory City of Brno and the Ministery of Culture Czech Republic.

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  • Activities
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    • Calendar
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    • Artists Included in the Archive
    • Video-multimedia-performance
  • Research Projects
    • Symposia
    • Vašulka Live
    • Projects
  • Publications
    • Published titles
    • Texts
    • Articles
  • Vašulka Kitchen Brno
    • Team
    • What is VKB?
    • Library
    • Collaboration
    • Contact
    • Support
    • Media
    • Documents
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    • The Vašulka Effect
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