List of works 2021-2013: All links are interactive. If you have enough time and patience – enjoy the journey
Aleš
Čermák (b. 1984)
Artist,
writer and founder of A-B_HPP (Ausdruck Books Hybrid Publishing Platform – which brings together authors and performers focused on
researching hybrid thinking and writing). Aleš has lead many
workshops in Czech Republic and abroad (Germany, Austria, England,
Morocco, Indonesia, India, etc.), and most of these encounters lead
to realizing a work. He often takes part in staging works of other
authors. Since 2014, he has collaborated with a group of mentally and
physically diagnosed (non)actors who actively collaborate on some of
his projects (The Citizen and the Thing, The
Earth Trembles, All This Belongs to You I, II).
His works have been presented at various institutions (Museum
of Contemporary Art – Taipei, MuseumsQuartier – Vienna, Gasworks
–London, Kunsthalle Bratislava, National Gallery – Prague, etc.),
during various events (Liege Biennial, Jakarta
Biennial, Jindřicha Chalupecký Award etc.).
He is the author of three prose books (Pes
nadbíhá kličkujícímu zajíci, 2012; The Twin Ship Tao,
2019; Return.Self.New,
2019 – EN version 2020) and many other
texts.
In the
last ten years, I have been intensely focused on researching hybrid
praxis in the sphere of performative conduct, social choreography,
collective action, care and writing. I am interested in an
unpredictable, processual, perhaps even alienated subjectivity. This
mode of thought prompts me to develop methods which are rather
cohesive and autonomous. I am interested in temporary ways of mutual
cohabitation which are directly made possible by given social
conditions. The individual (participant) undergoes the risk of
weakening their sense of self without completely dissolving.
Throughout this time, I’ve so far always had the opportunity to
work with very diverse communities of people from different parts of
the world. From workinging with professional actors and performers,
through groups of volunteers of all age groups and religions, with
migrants, children, students of art and other fields, with groups
diagnosed with some mental or physical handicap, etc. The central
aspect of my work is that it is not intended for professional
artists, audiences or art institutions, but rather that it ought to
be accessible to both artists and non-artists. In recent years, my
work has remained so open, that virtually anyone can take part in it.
Performing and processual works
█WORKS█ These works haven't processual character.
> Performative installation (participatory dramatization of the auditory process)
for blind people & others. In collaboration with Jindřiška Křivánková.
> SC(s)F = Speculatively Contemplative (sonic) Fiction
> Francois Laruelle, On The Black Universe Book, Ausdruck Books 2018
> Scenic essay
>SC(s)F = Speculatively Contemplative (sonic) Fiction
> Film, Performative lecture (with Jindřiška Křivánková & Matouš Hejl)
> Four hours performance event, Meetfactory
█ENTITIES█ These project have a processual character. Projects are developed over a long period of time. In most cases, they arise in collaboration with different comminities of people around the world. The projects have a largely performative-research character.
[Actual project]
> TTN GAMU 2021
> Unofficial Proof
> Infinite Manual
> The Earth Trembles
[Actual project]
> [ED. 3] → ∆ SCF = Speculatively Contemplative Fiction
█Books█
> The Twin Ship Tao, novel, 2019
> Return Self.New, novel, 2019
> Return Self.New, novel, English translation, 2020
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A-B_HPP [Ausdruck Books Hybrid publishing platform]: It is a shifting group of authors and performers focusing on research into hybrid thinking, participatory dramaturgy, choreography and writing.
█Select installation 2016 -21█
> The Dust Enforcer, Regional Art Gallery Liberec, Curator: Tereza Jindrová, 2017
█Film 2015-2020█
█Curatorial texts, interviews and others █
█Events: Upcoming, Current, Past █
● 2021-2022: The Transversal Navigation (TNN), GAMU
● 5/2021- 3/2022: Ruka na konci ramene: práce umělce, 8smička, Humpolec
● 24/10/2021 Tohle všechno patří tobě 2, 8smička, Humpolec
● 12/2020 Portugal
● 10/2020: New Delhi – Cancel
● 9/2020: Deep Adaptation, Phase: III.: Ecology of Our Juridical System, Architecture Biennial Tbilisi, Performance Day in Tbilisi
● 14/7/2020 Třetí lež, Holešovice
● 22/1/2020 All of this is yours II., performative work with disable people, Studio Alta, Prague
● 21/12/2019 Silver Vertigo / Strieborny zavrat, Group exhibition, Bánská Štiavnica, Slovakia (Kurátor: Jan Zálešák)
● 2/12/2019 All of this is yours II., performative work with disable people, Studio Alta, Prague
● 6/11/2019 Distribution of Flexibility, Lecture, Praha - forum pro architecture a media, Brno
⤷ Book launch - The Twin Ship Tao
● 1/10/2019 Posleních třicet let emancipace vol. 1, Group exhibition, GAVU, Prague (Curator: Boris Ondreička)
● 9/2019: Deep Adaptation, Phase: II.: Ecology of Our Juridical System (3th part of The Earth Trembles project), New Delhi, India
● 22- 25/8/2019: Artu kus Festival, Trutnov
⤷ 22/8, 20:00 UR-FASCISM, Jakub Gottwald new solo
⤷ 23/8, 18:30 Třetí lež
⤷ 23/8, 13:50: Superposition
⤷ 24/8, 12:00: Common Sense
● 13/8/2019 Lost in Space: dramaturgická spolupráce s hudebním skladatelem Matoušem Hejlem & orchestrem Berg, Pragovka, Praha
●14/7/2019 Deep Adaptation (3th part of The Earth Trembles project), DEPO, Plzeň
● 1/7 - 14/7/2019 AIR programme, DEPO, Plzeň
● 25/5 - 7/7/2019 ·₀iy·rb·e₁··wh
Er₁trht··er₂·m, Solo exhibition, galerie města Blansko
●3/2/2019 DERNIERA Třetí lež, Meetfactory, Prague
● 1/2/2019 DERNIERA The Twin Ship Tao aka Superposition, DUP39, Prague
● 27/28/291/2019 Common Sense, performative installation for blind & others in cooperation with Jindřiška Křivánková, DUP39
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al.cermak(at)gmail.com