Abandoned (re)creation

June 16 - 23, 2012
Trenčianske Teplice’s Main Square and various public spaces around the town

16 June 2012 at 3:00 pm, main square in front of hotel Pax
Jan Tabor: a flâneurie tour of Trenčianske Teplice, with a detailed discussion on ways to read a city as a distinctive semiosphere, spa culture, Jaromír Krajcer and the bohemian community surrounding Milena Jesenská.

The exhibition Abandoned (re)creation originated at a workshop where art students attempted to pique the public’s interest in the ostensibly useless and forgotten locale of Trenčianske Teplice and its architectural heritage.

With its strong nostalgic spirit, the stagnating spa town is an ideal venue for reflections on forgetting, indifference and societal or individual ignorance which can allow even supposedly timeless institutions to go to ruin. Two of Slovakia’s most significant and endangered functionalist buildings, the Green Frog Swimming Pool and the Machnáč Therapy Centre, are located right here in Trenčianske Teplice.

In a single week the workshop’s participants undermined the town’s deep-set apathy with site-specific interventions, reflecting on the spa’s decaying buildings and attempting to imaginatively revive them. You’ll have the chance to acquaint yourselves with their creative efforts throughout all eight days of this year’s Art Film Fest.

Organizers:

Archimera, o.z.
Andrea Kalinová,
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Partners:

Art Film Fest, Cell for Contemporary Culture

Financial Support:

Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic