Public House

The Friday 24 November will persuade you that MeetFactory is not "only" gallery, residency floor, musical or theater hall. All four dramaturgies which make one organism living under the roof of previous factory, will introduce their activity. 

Don´t miss the last Public House MeetFactory in 2017! 

MEETFACTORY GALLERY 
Amplified by the Stillness
The research of natural phenomena within both urban and art gallery context and its translation into aesthetical installations, which invite contemplation, while raising the awareness of environmental issues of the day.
With works by Das Numen, A/A (Andreas Greiner & Armin Keplinger), Felix Kiessling, Julian Charrière, Markus Hoffmann
Curator: Eva Riebová 
Exhibition Proposal: Jaro Varga 
 - exhibition opening 


KOSTKA GALLERY 
Michalina Bigaj: disingenuous nature / neupřímná příroda 
The starting point for Michalina Bigaj’s project are ‘models’ of man’s cohabitation with nature. 
Curator: Agnieszka Jankowska - Marzec 
 - exhibition opening 


ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Open Studios 
MeetFactory residents studios will be opened during the whole night. 

The guided tour of residency floor 
Meet current residents with the curators Lucia Kvočáková and Piotr Sikora. The guided tours of the residency floor will be both Slovak and English. 

8 women vol. 2 exhibition
Site-specific exhibition of Prague MeetFactory residents follows the October exhibition in PLATO, Ostrava.

THEATER 
Petra Hůlová: Strážci občanského dobra 2 
Scenic reading in Czech language only. 

KINEDOK
Screening of documentary movie Expired (2017) in cooperation with the alternative distribution platform KineDok. Discussion after the movie with Magda Michalíková from Glopolis organisation. 

SYNAPSE KNOWLEDGE 2017
Synapse Knowledge 2017 is educational program for musical artists and professionals. Within Public House you can participate on:

Open production workshop and Push Playground with French producer Flore Morfin, the certified Ableton lecturer. Organised by Ableton User Group Prague.  

6:00 – 6:45pm (Theater Hall) 
Creative strategies for producers and the use of Ableton Live software 
the lecture and presentation with Flore Morfin, French produces  

7:00 – 10:00pm (SHAPE space)
Ableton PUSH Playground
The possibility to try Ableton Push 2 - the midi controllers and Ableton Live software. Flore Morfin and Martin Tvrdý will be advisers. 

7:00 – 8:00pm (Music Hall)
Radical attitudes in the music and the role of music producer
The lecture of Tim Brinkhurst, experienced manager and producer, who is working with Young Fathers. 

8:00 – 9:30 (Music Hall)
How to survive in the musiscal industry 
Final discussion with foreign and Czech experts. 
Hosted by Stein Bjelland   

MUSIC
Varg (SE)
Over the last few years, Varg, the main alias for producer Jonas Rönnberg originally from northern Sweden, has manifested himself, not only as one of the most productive new voices in European electronic and techno music - with countless releases and projects - but also as one of the most interesting of the lot. Completely free from any concern of genre notions towards his music, he moves freely from ambient and drone to experimental techno and draws from the Nordic black-metal aesthetics. He performed at such prominent festivals as the Poland’s Unsound, Berlin Atonal or Insomnia festival. The latest entry to Varg’s Nordic Fauna series – Gore-Tex City, received a positive review in the Pitchfork online magazine. Besides his performing career, Varg runs the Stockholm-based dark techno label Northern Electronics alongside fellow Swedish producer and DJ Abdulla Rashim.

Lišaj (CZ) 
Lišaj is a Czech musician whose sound is based on droning mixtures of field recordings infected by slow beats, lo-fi sampling and liquid genre motion. His first release, called Szara,was built as a construction made from field recordings gathered on the Hel peninsula with an attempt to “dig a tunnel between the noise and the voice”. It was released on the consonant label Genot Centre.

Maoupa Mazzocchetti (BE) 
Brussels-based Maoupa Mazzocchetti debuted on Unknown Precept with a cryptic dispatch from the brink of hardwave and minimal electronics, experimenting with thick quakes, paranoid tones, and caustic drum machine welts. Call it what you will, Maoupa’s vicious industrial terror adds sex appeal to discomfort for when the dance floor turns ugly.  

Sugar (DK) - DJ set 
Sugar is 1 of the 2 founders of the Copenhagen based Fast Forward Productions; an organization presenting a new take on DIY rave culture where all events is build from the ground up, focusing on a quality artistic profile, a strong social and political engagement within Copenhagen´s local scene, and on collaborating with like-minded crews and concepts from abroad.. 
His musical background springs from more than a decade with punk and metal music, transitioning into harder electronic music and techno in recent years on both sides of the booth. Sugars DJ sets are focused around a broad variety of old and new hard, funky percussive techno.  

Varg, Maoupa Mazzocchetti and Lišaj are in 2017 part of SHAPE, a platform for emerging music and sound artists supported by European Union's Creative Europe programme. Synapse Knowledge is kindly supported by a grant from Czech Ministry of Culture. 
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FREE ENTRY 
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Line-up:
06:00 – 09:30 Synapse Knowledge
(more detailed program here)
08:00 – 00:00 Open Studios 
08:00 Michalina Bigaj: disingenuous nature - opening 
08:30 Amplified by the Stillness - opening
09:00 Residency Floor Guided Tour 
09:30 8 Women vol. 2 - opening
09:30 KineDok: Expired  
10:00 Petra Hůlová: Strážci občanského dobra 2 (in Czech only)
10:30 Lišaj (CZ) - live 
11:30 Maoupa Mazzocchetti (BE) - live 
00:30 Varg (SE) - live 
01:30 Sugar (DK) - dj set