Zbyněk Baladrán

Vít Havránek

With structured entries, the goal of this book is to create a tool for the intellectual grasping of the processes of social and political change in countries that call themselves 'countries of transformation'.

Atlas of Transformation

Julia Moritz

Yair Garbuz

Eduardo Thomas

Ana Texeira Pinto

Muzeon Bat Yam leommanut al shem David Ben Ari

For the Record

Ruti Sela

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Lionel Bovier

Milan Grygar

This publication is a result of visits and discussions carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist in artists' studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jirí Kovanda, Karel Malich, and many others, map the historical events as well as unknown stories of the actors of the Czech 'second avant-garde'.The artists and intellectuals of this generation were born in between 1920-1945. They lived through the 1960s cultural upheaval known as the Prague Spring, and witnessed the 'normalization' of the 1970s when censorship was re-introduced.This series of interviews contextualize a generation of Czech artists within the historical events that marked their lives and careers, and draw attention to their urgency to resist historical events while keeping their artistic practices sustained, radical, and vital.Published with tranzit.cz, this publication is a unique encounter with key artistic figures and moments of history, which created a complex landscape of artistic practices under socialism, as well as after the changes.The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

Hans Ulrich Obrist: the Czech Files

Vít Havránek

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