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This year, for the first time, a significant part of the programme will take place in the actual scenery of the largest exhibition hall of the Museum of Modern Art, the so-called Trojlodí (Triple Aisle). Many of the productions in the 26 Flora programme cross genre boundaries towards visual art – in particular installation, computer design or video art…

The Kids Are Alright theatre installation (photo by Mayra Wallraff) 

The big hall of the Museum of Modern Art will host, among others, a site-specific project by Hungarian dancer Boglárka Börcsök and German filmmaker Andreas Bolm, Figuring Age, which combines live performance and video projection.

Simone Dede Ayivi will then welcome the audience armed with headphones and empathy to the „playground“ of her theatrical installation The Kids Are Alright. In it, the director explores how the second and third immigrant generations in Germany grew up and what their ideas of a „better life“ are. Ayivi has conceived the auditorium as a playground inventory – a simulator of social maturation and the bitter realisation of one's own otherness, which forbids looking at the reality of one's new home through rose-coloured glasses.

Visitors to the Archdiocesan Museum, on the other hand, will put on their glasses: with VR goggles they will take a trip to the omniscient universe and peer into the future through the fantasy environment of virtual reality. The unique installation I AM (VR) was created by German theatre innovator Susanne Kennedy together with multimedia artists Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker.

Lukáš Brutovský's original production about the clash of the male and female principle from antiquity to the present, Iokasté, which is performed at the S-klub, includes an artistic intervention by Juraj Poliak. On stage during the performance, the Slovak sculptor creates an abstract sculpture out of plaster casts, which refers to a bygone antiquity imprinted in marble. 

And of course, this year's visual style of the festival – conceived as a dialogue between the analogue and digital worlds – is already a distinctive artistic act. We wrote about the concept by painter Adéla Janská and graphic designer Radim Měsíc here.

photo Mayra Wallraff / Andreas Bolm / Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker / Pavlína Drnková