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In Plan DELTA, Daniela Ponomarevová first constructs and then deconstructs a post-apocalyptic story in reaction to the current state of civilization. Photo: Galerie TIC
Welcome to 2022! Welcome to Kam v Brně! This is it folks, we’re in the future. The future is now and Brno is in the future. 2022. I think this time around, to be honest, we’re all just hoping that 2022 is a shade better than 2021, because looking back, we may have over-done the optimism for 2021. In keeping with this futuristic theme, there is a exhibition at TIC, the Infomation Centre gallery (Radnicka 4), entitled Plan DELTA which comes highly recommended. In this project, Daniela Ponomarevová first constructs and then deconstructs a post-apocalyptic story in reaction to the current state of civilization. At the core of the dystopian narrative is the anticipated demise of an Earth turned into a testing site, a transit hub for humanity destined to be destroyed by an enormous asteroid. The ever-present motif of catastrophe is conveyed not only by genre clichés and pop-culture conventions, but also
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by the human obsession with images of its own destruction. All month. One event that has the theatre-loving public going mental this month is a serendipitous, accidental double bill of Hrdý Budžeš, a play by B. Proudew. Firstly, in English, put on by Czech Theatre on the 29 th and 30 th of January and on the 5th and 6th of February. Then, for those of you who want a compare and contrast exercise, in the original Czech Language on the 31st of January at Divadlo Bolka Polívky. 2022 will be great for music though, of that we have no doubt. There are lots of exciting things on the more distant ho-
rizon, Pat Metheny, Pop Messe, Panelak of Love, Jacob Collier (!!), but January is no slouch either in terms of great music. The Thistle album release party on the 15th at Kaznice stands out as a pretty cool and unusual event, supported by Natalie Plevakova and Avsluta. Fans of underground electronica should not be missing this one. My favourite event in January is a night dedicated to the best living composer in the world, Philip Glass. Pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies will be performing Six Etudes, Piano Sonata (first Czech performance of this piece) and Four Movements for 2 pianos. On the 30 th at Besední dům.
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