The upcoming PAF Olomouc 2020 festival, which takes place from 6 to 9 December, reveals the curatorial duo of the 14th year of the Other Visions CZ 2020 competition of moving images. This year’s ten finalists will be selected by the curator and critic of contemporary art Tina Poliačková and the curator and DJ Lumír Nykl.
It has been a long-time goal of the Other Visions CZ competition to create awareness of the Czech moving image: the marginal forms bordering on animation, experimental film and video art. The final ten works will be screened as a film series in a cinema hall and as part of a gallery installation at this year's 19th Film Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in Olomouc (PAF Olomouc), taking place during the first December weekend. The winners of the competition will be chosen by an international jury (Main Award) and audience (Audience Award). During the following year, the selection of ten works entitled Other Visions CZ 2020 will be presented in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Tina Poliačková (1988) is a curator and critic of contemporary art. She completed a Master’s Degree in Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, starting her doctoral studies under Václav Magid at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague this year. She collaborates with magazines such as Art Antiques, artalk.cz, Flash Art or A2. Together with Lumír Nykl, she was a curator as part of the exhibition activities of the A.M.180 collective and in the Šachta gallery in Holešovice. She focuses on the relationships among contemporary art, internet culture, fashion and music. She is also part of the DJ/AV team Blazing Bullets, performing as a DJ under the pseudonym dirrtina.
Lumír Nykl (1991) is a curator, DJ and a former cultural publicist. He studied Art History and Aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. As a cultural publicist he wrote for A2 and A2larm and was an external music editor for Radio Wave. He specialises in contemporary visual arts, experimental and club music, and video games. In addition to the Blazing Bullets collective, he is a member of the Red for Colour Blind label, for which he processes the recordings’ graphics. He was a curator for the Futura gallery, Karlin Studios or the PLATO gallery. He works as a curator and producer at the Jiri Svestka Gallery.
The curators will introduce the finalists on Monday, 2 November, as part of PAF Praha and the presentation cycle PAF Praha: Moving Image: Curatorial Principles, taking place from 6 p.m. at the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague.
The competition registration form is available online at www.pifpaf.cz. The deadline for submissions is 4 October, 2020.