

(Without Words) Stone Fruits and Ghosts, 2014 © Anderwald + Grond
Excerpt of the concert Instruction for Use at Musikfestival Rottweil, Germany.
– See also Instruction for Use.
Knowledge is a plural concept. There exists a myriad of knowledges: useful, useless, profitable, bourgeois, vital, disciplined, specialized, uncategorized, hidden, lost, outsourced, implicit, explicit, tacit, codified…
Under the motto "Freedom is My Home," the third annual international symposium dedicated to the work of Jiří Trnka takes place in October 2024. Alongside the symposium's expert program, various accompanying events for the general public will be organized at several locations in Plzeň.
The question of art’s ability to speak to that which is unknowable, unspeakable and alien has been a long tradition held in Romanticism and Realism, the former being associated with the subjective physiologies of the individual and the latter being associated with more objective and scientific aims.