On mixed partnerships

 

A collection of photographs on the theme of partnership, the power of our roots and the influences of different cultures. What is the significance of globalisation, national character, customs and traditions in the intimate sphere that is partnership between two people? The subject of Czech men and women’s cohabitation with non-European partners. What is it like to live with somebody from the other side of the world, somebody with a different language, religion, race or mentality? This social-psychological study is balanced on the edge between documentary and fiction. It features real life partners as total strangers who briefly break out of clichéd forms of communication and relationships. A genuine couple is contrasted with a fake couple brought together for the project.

 

 

 

 

An exhibition focused on the real lives of concrete individuals presents the work of People in Need abroad.

 

 

 

 

 

In developing countries, older people play a significant role in the reduction of poverty: they support families and bring up grandchildren whose parents have died of AIDS. Nonetheless, half of the world’s seniors are not assured of even the lowest of incomes. If the situation does not change, by 2050 up to 1.2 billion of the planet’s elderly will live without a secure basic income. The photographs in this exhibition were taken during interviews with senior citizens in Bangladesh, Peru and Uganda as part of the European project Decent Work for All.

 

 

 

From 11 February to 20 March, the Czech Centre on Prague’s Rytířská St is playing host to a show called Unloud by the British artist Duncan Higgins. It is an extensive project consisting of a mosaic of nearly 1600 small paintings inspired by the natural beauty and troubled history of Russia’s Solovetsky Islands, which Higgins has been visiting since 2004. As well as paintings, the exhibition features drawings, photographs, a film and a book. For more information go to www.czechcentres.cz/prague or www.unloudpainting.blogspot.com.

 

  

 

 

This small exhibition at Prague’s Clementinum focuses on the programme of the 12^th One World festival of human rights documentary films, which is being held in the city from 10 to 18 March 2010. Panels feature posters for 12 of this year’s documentaries, representing a cross-section of the programme, as well as information about accompanying events ranging from debates to exhibitions and concerts.

 

 

 

 

In this exhibition, the Czech branch of Friends of the Earth outlines on a series of panels its suggested timetable for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the Czech Republic. Featuring texts and illustrative photos, the show proposes emissions cuts in the energy, transport, waste, agricultural and forest management sectors. The first and last panels present Friends of the Earth’s project A Big Challenge, which pushes for what would be a breakthrough law on reducing emissions. The idea is that greenhouse gas emissions would be cut gradually by 2% a year to help support green solutions (from heating homes to environmental farming), cutting families’ outgoings and the Czech Republic’s dependence on fuel imports. Above all, however, it would mean that the country had accepted responsibility for the impact of climate change, which hits poor developing states the hardest. Find out more at www.velkavyzva.cz (in Czech)

 

 

 

 

The L.A.F. Project (Laughter and Forgetting) is a project bringing together international award-winning photographers to document life in the Czech Republic, 20 years after building democracy.

 

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against oblivion.”
Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

 

Nadia Shira Cohen (U.S.A.)
Tomáš Pospěch (Czech Republic)
Michel Bourguet (France)
Jan Šibík (Czech Republic)
Jindřich Štreit (Czech Republic)
Dean Batak (Croatia)
Marketa Luskačová (Czech Republic / United Kingdom)
Alena Dvořáková – Viktor Fischer (Czech Republic)
Patrick Rimond (France)
Jakub Skokan (Czech Republic)
Chin Chin Wu (China / U.S.A.)
Karel Tůma (Czech Republic)
Petr Willert (Czech Republic)
Paul Pacey (Canada)
Eugen Kukla (Czech Republic)
Mathew Sleeth (Australia)
Philippe Dolo (France)
Dana Kyndrová (Czech Republic)
Hana Jakrlová (Czech Republic)
Andrea Micheli (Italy)
Evžen Sobek (Czech Republic)
Martin Kollár (Slovakia)
Gueorgui Pinkhassov (Russia)

 

Author of the project: Hana Jakrlová
Curator: Nadia Rovderová
Project coordinator: Martina Hušková
Cooperation: Tomáš Pospěch, Yanina Moiseenko,
Sara Neufeld, Christi Brooks, Caroline Zuttel, Eugen Kukla and others.