JAMA 2020

A nič nebude počuť. Aftermovie Tomáša Prištiaka.

The second – originally unplanned – edition of JAMA took place at the height of the covid season in the fall of 2020. Due to pandemic measures, it was conducted online only. The site-specific program was streamed from Parter BSC, Banská Štiavnica and the surrounding forests and meadows in the presence of artists, but without the participation of a live audience.

Performers

American composer of experimental music and author of sound installations. He is considered a pioneer in many areas of sound production. He experimented with e.g. using brainwaves in live performances, echolocation, or interference. In the eighties, he began writing compositions...

Hauke Harder (DE)

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German composer and experimental physicist. He studied physics at the University of Kiel and until 2000 devoted himself to the research of molecular physics. He began composing alongside his scientific work in the late 1980s. The main part of his...

Daniel Grúň (SK)

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Daniel Grúň is an art historian, curator and poet. He participated in the creation of the international retrospective of Július Koller One Man Anti Show in Mumok, Vienna. He focuses on art after 1945 in Central and Eastern Europe, the...

Martin Piaček (SK)

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Martin Piaček is a sculptor and gardener, he works at the AFAD Bratislava as the head of the vvv Studio at the Department of Intermedia. In addition to his own artistic work in the field of sculpture and video, he...

Lucia G. Stach (SK)

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Head curator of the Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Slovak National Gallery. She studied art history and culture at the University of Trnava. She completed several study visits and residencies: at Charles University in Prague, the Sommerakademie...

Ivan Šiller (SK)

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Pianist, teacher, and performer of contemporary music. He studied piano. He founded the Cluster ensemble more than ten years ago, he is also a member of other groups, such as Ensemble Ricercata or Prague Modern. He is involved in music...

Panovníkov palác (SK)

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For Milan Adamčiak, the place where he lived the last years of his life was a social asylum, a refuge, and a home. Curators, friends, and art collectors followed the author on a narrow sidewalk lined with nettles. The author...

Jürgen Rendl (AT/SK)

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Jürgen Rendl comes from Austria and lives in Bratislava. He researches the periphery and marginal knowledge, and also works as a radio editor. He discovers “his” east by hitchhiking the region. Driven by curiosity, constantly in motion, he absorbs and...

Fero Király (SK)

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Fero Király is an author, performer, and teacher. He deals with art projects that extend to performance, sound art, installations, and interpretations of contemporary music, but also education in the field of music, musical composition, and sound art. He uses...

Robert Kolář (SK)

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He studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts, at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he later worked as an assistant professor. Since 2008 he has been working as the editor of the monthly Hudobný život. As a trumpet player (flute...

Liza Gennart (SK)

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Liza Gennart is an experimental poetic project by programmer Ľubomír Panák and poet Zuzana Husárová. It is a neural network writing poetry, which was published in 2020 in the book Results of the Origin (Výsledky vzniku) by Vlna / Drewo...

Marek Kundlák (SK)

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Marek Kundlák is born, lives and creates Bratislava, although he also lived and worked in Edinburgh. He studied theater dramaturgy and devotes himself to a wide range of artistic expressions from writing librettos, texts and translations through theater dramaturgy, directing,...

Soňa Kúdeľová (SK)

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Soňa Kúdeľová is a choreographer, performer and lecturer. Her work is inspired by everyday life and focuses on research and interpretation of internal thought processes during the course of life, while trying to look at the conscious and unconscious. It...

Svätopluk Mikyta (SK)

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Svätopluk Mikyta is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and a DAAD scholarship holder at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2008, he received the Oscar Čepan Award...

Tomáš Boroš (SK)

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He studied composition and piano at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His musical works are part of the profile CD albums of Slovak performers, such as VENI ENSEMBLE, Elena Letňanová, Milan Paľa, Eva Šušková and Ivan Šiller. Since...

Milan Adamčiak (SK)

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Slovak conceptual artist, visual artist, musician, author of visual poetry, composer and musicologist. He devoted himself to visual poetry, graphic scores, performance, experimental composition. In 1989, he co-founded the avantgarde ensemble Transmusic comp. which, in addition to a number of...

Programme

Štvrtok 22. 10.

offprogram

17.00Martin Piaček – Orchard. A Brief Archive of the Gift.

Banská Štiavnica | Námestie sv. Trojice in front of Jozef Kollár Gallery

(opening of the exhibition, accompanying program of the festival)

NOT STREAMED

Opening of the exhibition of the artist Martin Piaček, who spent part of September and October at the residence in Banská St a nica Contemporary. The exhibition will be available during JAMA and afterward as well. Entry is subject to compliance with current pandemic measures.

Piatok 23. 10.

19.00Symphonium

(Banská Štiavnica | Parter BSC)

STREAMU

The Slovak premiere of Alvin Lucier’s well-known procedural electroacoustic composition and the world premiere of Suite for Toy Piano by Tomáš Boroš, and other. We are streaming live from Parter BSC.

Ivan Šiller: John Cage, Tomáš Boroš – Suite for Toy Piano

Marek Kundlák & several of the six: Liza Gennart – Jam results

Hauke Harder / Fero Király / Eva Vozárová: Alvin Lucier – I Am Sitting In A Room

18.00Opening of JAMA – 74th year of Milan Adamčiak

(Banská Štiavnica | Parter BSC)

STREAM

Virtual opening of JAMA together with the opening of this year’s curated works of art. Refreshments served only remotely in the form of artistic experiences. You can toast to JAMA 2020 at home in front of your screens.

Svätopluk Mikyta: Fungi Cyani (exhibition opening)

Sovereign’s Palace (exhibition opening)

Soňa Kúdeľová: Sounds of silence (3x pohyb) (performance)

13.00Svätopluk Mikyta – Fungi Cyani

(Banská Štiavnica)

STREAM

Mushroom picking is an inherent part of M.A.’s movement in the land. The meditative silence of walking through the forest is interrupted by the joyful shouts of successful mushroom pickers. The random movement and random finding of a random amount and types of mushrooms is the starting point for a visual composition on paper, which will be the result of a solo performance by the artist Svätopluk Mikyta. We are streaming directly from the forest.

Sobota 24. 10.

14.30Unintentional wandering with M.A.

(Banská Štiavnica – Banská Belá)

STREAM

Traveling through the countryside in the footsteps of M.A., direction: Banská Belá. This time you can watch it from the comfort of your home and watch us on the hills with dry feet. To increase the quality of the experience, we recommend wearing a raincoat and entering the shower in it / putting on sunglasses and going out on the balcony in them* + serving tea with rum (at least you, as we can’t).

*depending on the weather

Marek Kundlák: Jürgen Rendl – Traveller’s notes from the east of the region

Robo Kolář: Unquestioned Answers (a selection of graphic scores by Milan Adamčiak)

10.00Symposium

(Banská Štiavnica | Parter BSC)

STREAM

4 x 20 minute talks about contemporary art, Milan Adamčiak and topics related to the festival. Discussion will follow at the end.

Guests: Martin Piaček, Jürgen Rendl, Hauke Harder, Daniel Grúň, Fero Király

Hosted by: Lucia G. Stach