NASUTI (On the rubble)
The rubble at Nová Cvernovka has depleted.
Castle Moravany offers a space for... let's say building, or creating and transforming the cultural movements.
The theme of the festival was darkness.
We researched it as an ecological problem - light pollution, but also a cultural problem.
A phenomenon that grows throughout society, we questioned the conventional understanding of it.
This is primarily a visual arts festival so that was the primary focus of the discussion schedule.
We talked about the metaphorical contexts of darkness.
I know the right decision is in his mind, and I have to find the courage to do it.
The visual arts were mostly video installations but they were made to be perceived with our other senses too.
Kata Mach provided a video installation that captured a performance where she walked amongst the people in the dark,
took their hands, and led their touches over their bodies.
The darkness in this case was a metaphor for intimacy, solitude, and entering ourselves.
Skica pre suchú jaskyňu (A sketch for a dry cave) by Lucia Papčová tells us about
entering a cave in a metaphoric sense, even though she actually did enter a cave.
It was a cave that was observed by Michal Kern before her and she looked the cave up.
The artwork poetically works with a space that is dark and heightens our other senses.
There are multiple layers involved.
András Cséfalvay is a very scientifically based artist.
We picked a new artwork for the festival, it's called Birds of Paradise.
He focuses on extinction, which is a very dark topic for the human mind.
It's also very actual.
He works with extinct species and with a moment when mammals go underground and they see dinosaurs flying
which they're trying to save from the apocalypse.
It's a tenrec, a small mammal as the main hero of the story
who hides beneath the ground and sees the flying dinosaur flying towards heaven.