About countries, interspaces, and trance - debate at Vzlet

Vladimir 518 has invited guests to his ongoing exhibition at Vzlet - philosopher Miroslav Petříček and social anthropologist Radan Haluzík. The discussion will focus on unlands and in-between spaces, both physical and mental, which often lead us into trances of all kinds.
Miroslav Petříček is a philosopher, translator, and writer, a student of Jan Patočka, focusing on the contexts of contemporary visual art and, in addition to his own studies, introducing mainly French and German authors into the Czech environment as a translator. He specializes primarily in contemporary French philosophy, art, and aesthetics. From 1992 to 1995, he taught at the Central European (Soros) University in Prague, and in 1992 he spent a study stay at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He then began to lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and from 2001 he has collaborated with the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. He is a member of the Scientific Council of UK and FF UK, the Art Council of FAMU, DAMU, and AMU, and the Council of the Institute of Philosophy. At the suggestion of the Art Council of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, he was appointed in April 2007 as a professor in the field of film, television, and photographic art and new media - theory of film and multimedia creation. Since 1992, he has been working full-time at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies at FF UK in Prague.
Radan Haluzík is a social anthropologist focusing on the study of the social life of things, architecture, and the internal peripheries of cities, nationalism, as well as other pressing issues of our world. He is interested in the relationship between politics and aesthetics, how beauty and the beautiful influence human motivations, goals, and actions. His long-term field research on war-related ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus culminated in the book Why Men Go to War. At the Centre for Theoretical Studies, he led a team focusing on vague terrains, internal peripheries, and the nature of our cities, which resulted in the creation of the book City Inside Out. His upcoming book Turbo - Village seeks to examine epochal turbulent change through the transformation of local architecture from traditional houses built from local wood and stone to pompous villas mimicking the dwellings of the suburbs of Western cities.
Vladimir 518 is a multimedia artist and musician who emerged during the 1990s and 2000s as one of the most prominent figures in the local graffiti scene.
He is the author of numerous book illustrations, comics, theatrical scenographies, and works of fine art, as well as a graphic designer, publisher, and producer. As a scenographer, he collaborated with the experimental theater group TOW, with which he realized performances on many world theater stages. He is a member of the audiovisual unit SPAM, which focuses on digital art and the synchronization of video, sound, lasers, and light. In 2006 and 2022, he was the main representative of the publishing house BiggBoss, which produced primarily book and music projects focused on contemporary urban culture and art. Among his most well-known published works are the trilogy Tribes (2006, 2011, 2013), the analysis of contemporary Czech art Obsession (2015), and the extensive project Architecture 58-89 (2022).