Festival 4+4 Days in Motion invites you to the empty Desfours Palace

The main center of the jubilee 20th edition of the international festival of contemporary art 4+4 Days in Motion will this year, from October 2 to 10, first become the empty Desfours Palace at Na Florenci 21, which will also serve as the starting point for a series of walks with renowned experts in the fields of urbanism and architecture.
Interested participants will be able to embark on a walk with plant sociologist and naturalist Jiří Sádl to Florenc, learn something about the Vltava and its influence on the shaping of Prague with Richard Biegl, explore global architecture and its mistakes in the vicinity of Florenc with Karolína Vránková, trace the footprints of buildings that no longer exist or were never given a chance to exist with Petr Klíma, witness the transformations of Masaryk Station with Igor Kovačević and Yvette Vašourková, and walk the entire length of Jankovcova Street with Lukáš Beran, from the demolished Bubens station through the planned port to the endangered Libeň Bridge.

Program of the walks:
WHAT CANNOT BE CROSSED, MUST BE AVOIDED: WALK WITH JIŘÍ SÁDL
Saturday, October 3 / 16:00, Desfours Palace

PRAGUE – CITY AND RIVER: WALK WITH RICHARD BIEGL
Sunday, October 4 / 09:00, meeting at Nemocnice Na Františku (in collaboration with the festival Den Architektury of the Kruh association - entry FREE)

BANAL AND GLOBAL PRAGUE: WALK WITH KAROLÍNA VRÁNKOVÁ
Sunday, October 4 / 13:00, meeting in front of Desfours Palace (in collaboration with the festival Den Architektury of the Kruh association - entry FREE)

HOLEŠOVICE MEANDER: PRIVATIZATION OF CENTER AND MARGINS: WALK WITH LUKÁŠ BERAN
Saturday, October 10 / 15:30, meeting at Železničářů 204/6, Prague 7

(P)ON THE ABSENT HOUSES: WALK WITH PETR KLÍMA
Saturday, October 10 / 14:00, Desfours Palace

TRANSFORMATIONS AROUND MASARYK STATION: WALK WITH IGOR KOVAČEVIĆ AND YVETTE VAŠOURKOVÁ
Saturday, October 10 / 14:30, Desfours Palace

More information - here.

“The palace was built in 1845 on a lucrative plot of land in close proximity to the future Těšnov Station. During the festival, within the project Místa činu, we will primarily revive its preserved part with beautiful frescoes and stuccos and spacious rooms of palace character,” says curator Denisa Václavová. Three floors of the otherwise inaccessible Desfours Palace will host a large exhibition of contemporary art titled How to Want Nothing, featuring 60 Czech and foreign artists. The rich exhibition will include installations, objects, paintings, videos, and site-specific projects curated by leading figures in the Czech visual arts scene - Krištof Kintera, Denisa Václavová, Radek Wohlmuth, Mariana Serranová, David Böhm & Jiří Franta, and Tomáš Svoboda. The exhibition will be complemented by an extensive accompanying program of openings, performances, and symposia.
From the fields of architecture and urbanism, there will be, for example, a symposium Places Closer to the City on the topic of revitalizing abandoned urban buildings and areas with representatives from the cultural and creative industries, the launch of a collection of texts on architecture 2014 - 2015 prepared by the Kruh association, a screening of the film Places Between Places directed by Marek Matvije and Epos 257 about spaces in cities where improvised homes are created and disappear, intertwining nature and architecture, and on Saturday, October 10, a discussion The Forbidden Word Regulation moderated by Adam Gebrian, focused on development and its regulation. Guests will seek answers to questions such as: How should the public sector determine the conditions that also apply to the private sector? What is or should be the role of city representatives in relation to the built environment? Merely regulatory, guiding, or also proactive, thereby creating standards for others? How do they see their own role in these processes? A trio of architects and politicians will discuss: Prof. Miroslav Šik, who has long been active at ETH Zurich, Michal Kuzemenský from the studio re:architekti, head of the studio at FA ČVUT Jaroslav Zima, partner of the architectural office D3A, and Matěj Stropnický, Prague councilor for the Triple Coalition, member of the leadership of the Green Party, deputy mayor for urban development.

This year's 20th edition of the 4+4 Days in Motion festival will take place from October 2 to 10 at Desfours Palace, as well as at the Archa Theatre, Jatka78 space, and Ponec Theatre, where international performances that represent the most interesting contemporary European dance and theater scene will be presented. For the anniversary, the festival has also prepared a special ticket price for these performances - 200 CZK for a standard ticket, 100 CZK reduced for students and seniors.

More information at www.ctyridny.cz.