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5 INTRO 6 URBANITE (including screeningsofbookadaptations),aKafka andBorgesconference,lotsmore.Don’tmissit. see everyoneoftheproductions overtheeightdays,sodoFringe marathon. Don’t misssomeofthebestnewanddiverse internationaltheatrefromtheUK,US,Canada,India,Australia,andGreece.It If you’rereadytofeastonnewtheatre,comedy andmusicfromaroundtheworld,7thannualPragueFringe’s40productions subtitled inEnglish,German,andCzech,willbeaccompaniedbyillustrativeinterpretationsofthewrittenword. at TheGlobeCafe,May15th,incooperationwithProvokator.org. Thespokenwordportionoftheeventwillbesimultaneouslytr against livemusiciansandDJs.ThePragueRevueplayshosttowritersfromBordercrossingsBerlinmagazinebeginningwithate tor MediaGroupintroducesEvropskýSen“CultureKnockout”.Afi of goodhumanfl A zombiewalkisanorganizedpublicgatheringofpeoplewhodressupincostumesanddowhatzombiesdo…shamblealongi All horrorenthusiastsareinvitedtoparticipateinthefi ZOMBIE WALK Brace yourselves—theFringeFestival machineisgearing upforanothermammotheventinMaláStranafromSunday, May25th–Jun FRINGE FESTIVAL have gonefromraretoubiquitousinaveryshorttime.To celebratethetattooandfurtheritsappreciationherein thecenter Artistic embellishment,personalstatement,ganglandidentifi TATTOO CONVENTION via mobilephones,afairlyrevolutionaryfeatbyCzechstandards.Keep youreyeonwww.ohmsquare.com. previewing theirupcomingalbumonFacebook aweekbeforeit’sdueinstores.Closertohome,OhmSquarearesetreleasethe artists aregraduallyfollowingsuit.MadonnaisintalkswithmobilephonecompaniesregardinghernewalbumHardCandy, while By givingawaytheirLPInRainbowspracticallyforfree,RadioheadhasunleashedaDavidvs.Goliathbattlewiththemajors, OHM SQUARE In thenameofmutualunderstanding,aunitedcompetitivespirit,anddesiretorelishdisorientationblow EVROPSKÝ SEN“CULTURE KNOCKOUT” keep youfromdozingoff don’t ruinthingsbyprotestingbullfi This year’sfeaturedcountrywillbeSpain,sopreparedforalotofinfoonthecurrentstateliteratureandpublishing The 14thannualWorldBookFair isabouttoarriveandwithitawholehelloflotbooks,includingsomereallygoodones, BOOK WORLD too orlookatdisplays;musicwithinternationalDJsonhand,lightshows,freakshowsand awholelotmore.Sothinkinkand invited torepresentoneofthemanystylestattooinginexistencetoday. Ofcourse,therewillbemoretoseeanddothans there’s the10thInternationalTattoo ConventionPrague.Somewhereintheneighborhoodof75tattooartistswilltakepart,eac esh toeat.Zombieyourselfoutandheadoverthecemetery! , evenifSpaindoesn’tlightyourfi ghting oranythinglikethat…nottherightvenue.Allkindsofinterestingexhibitionsandeventsshould rst-ever PragueZombieWalk. re, includingEgypt—50 Years ofCzechEgyptology, TheWorldoftheBookinFilm er, culturalheritage,prisonkeepsake,orsimplytrendyadornment—tattoos rst ofitskind,thismini-multimediafestivalpitsliteraryandvisualart in saidcountry, but ofEurope, imply getatat- head, Instiga- we’resure! nd other head onout! ispossibleto h havingbeen anslated and are foryou. aser event ir 4thalbum REMare n search e 1st. www.fringe.cz 25/5–1/6 FRINGE FESTIVAL www.tattoo-convention.cz Vladivostocká 10,P10 Sport HallSlavia 16-18/5 TATTOO CONVENTION www.ohmsquare.com OHM SQUARE www.provokator.org Chateau Rouge Popo CaféPetl The GlobeCafé 15–17/5 CULTURE KNOCKOUT www.bookworld.cz Holešovice Exhibition Industrial Palace Prague 24–27/4 BOOK WORLD www.zombiewalk.cz 17/5 ZOMBIE WALK

7 URBANITE What else excites you apart from music? a two-month internship at MTV India in www.jahcoozi.com Traveling, even as a kid with my parents, we did Bombay and realized that TV sucks all over the a lot. In my late teens I worked shitty jobs in order to world. I even had a three-month relationship with a guy save money to go budget traveling. I had been to from Kazakhstan and went there and stayed in Indonesia, Brazil, Malaysia, and India before I was a communist block of fl ats with his family. In 20. Partly on my own and with my hair shaved places like Belize or Morocco they actually always short and bleached blonde! I was happy to sleep speak to me in their language because they think in little shacks or in a back room with a family; I come from there. It is easier to negotiate with

THINK TANK I wanted to see the world and meet the people. nomads and hustlers when you are a sweet little Text by Lucia Udvardyová I was disenchanted with Europe. I even did brown girl than a white guy with a big camera!

Jahcoozi are the perfect epitome of a 21st century band brought about by an increasingly globalized world. Oren Gerlitz, an Israeli, Sasha Perera a Sri Lankan London-bred MC, and Robot Koch, a German, all live in their adopted home Berlin and make crunked up hip hop and ragga infused electronic beats that have taken underground dance fl oors by storm, like they did with their tongue-in-cheek track BLN. We sent the very busy Sasha Perera, the charismatic lead singer, a few questions and were pleasantly surprised by the thoughtful and witty answers that came back. Take a peek into their world.

What makes you happy? They are like yin and yang; London can be like but I was so happy to hear it on the soundsystem Food, nature, good music, sunshine, sex, dancing a prison because of money, status, and at WMF that I would limp on the dancefl oor and my bollocks off , weird clothes/fashion, vodka, security issues there. Berlin can be like a prison dance with one crutch in the air! traveling, silence, Nepalese/Indian hashish—in because it can at times feel too white, middle any order! class, and provincial. But generally Berlin is a What was the last concert you went to? much healthier place to live where people have Do you mean on you-tube!? Only joking. What makes you sad? more time to think and less pressure to aspire to a A Jahcoozi concert of course! Paris Hilton and the amount of money that gets ‘get rich fast’ culture, like they do in London. And http://www.myspace.com/dragonsofzynth. put into crappy fake music projects. The winners They are friends of friends from New York; not of pop star shows, the whole thing just stinks of Where’s the best place to be at 5 AM in really my kind of thing, but it is good to go to industry deals. And the fact that people are happy Berlin? stuff you don’t usually go to. to be sucked in by that shit. Teaching Scandinavians to breakdance in the tiny Corruption and the lack of respect many upstairs fl oor at Picknick when I am DJing! Last book you read? governments have for their citizens’ rights, for Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. instance in China or Sri Lanka. In some places When was the last time you cried? there is just such a large population that if one When I ran out of dope yesterday! Only joking. Last CD/MP3 you bought? hundred people die per day in their work place, I think when I had only had 2 hours sleep and went MP3 = King Midas Sound – Surround Me—a side then fuck it, there are loads of other people who to the wrong train station to get to my gig in project by The Bug. Reminds me a bit of massive will do the job. Amsterdam. I missed the train and I could not deal attack but totally 2007. Shows that the Bug Corruption within aid organizations or corruption with the lack of sleep, stress to get there and the doesn’t just make noise and the vocalist Tony within groups that claim to be standing up bitchy little ‘I told you so’ kind of bitch behind the Robinson is pretty unique too. A track called Cold for individuals rights or organizations and counter. Of course as soon as I started crying, she Out, which is on the Kode 9 Sonar Mix, is also governments who use violence/paramilitary softened and gave me a tissue and tried to help. really wicked. groups to enforce their power and opinions on I am not embarrassed by crying in public places. the population; scaremongering. Hypocrites who It is only when I get recognized as the singer of Where do you get inspiration for your refuse to go to Israel but happily go on holiday to Jahcoozi that it can get a bit weird. In the end it lyrics? Sri Lanka every year. In my opinion, the intentions is quite funny. Look at that weird brown girl in Everywhere: day to day experiences, people I meet, of both governments are questionable. bright leggings crying in a German train station! people I hear about, fi lms, books, current aff airs, drunken experiences, LSD, travels, dreams, songs, Whom would you like to invite for tea round When was the last time you laughed? childhood, even listening to BBC World when I go your house? This morning listening to some remix which some jogging leaves me thinking about so much stuff . 24/4, Roxy Shyam Selvadurai, a Canadian Tamil who wrote kid from MySpace did of an accapella of ours. It a book called ‘Funny Boy’ about a gay Tamil boy sounded like fi tness studio pop but really well What are you looking forward to in 2008? growing up just before the riots in Colombo. down! Going to Brazil to play in May. My surname is www.nedovedu- Perera and so I got some Portuguese colonialism BLN or LDN? Why? Which song gets you on the dancefl oor? in me (like Brazil, Sri Lanka was a Portuguese Both, but for diff erent reasons. Berlin for the Modeselektor feat. Sasha Perera Silicon. At the colony). Last time I was there, people thought I pochopit.cz freedom it off ers. London for its multiculturalism. time, I was on crutches after a knee operation, was Brazilian, from Bahia to be specifi c. 8 conceived and executed by the entire collective? To put it simply, our fundamental “program” is “a critical view of society.” Old Town Hall In our opinion, without it, the current society will fall into a morass of ART ART Staroměstské náměstí 1, P1 Essentially, we function through both of these principles. Once in a while consumer totality. 23/4 – 1/6, 2008 we have a meeting, which we call brainstorming, as a funny reference to TECH 3 GUMA www.gumaguar.bloguje.cz work in advertising agencies. During these meetings, we discuss topics that Do politics really have a place in art? Aren’t you “preaching to we consider important. Eventually, we develop concepts that are already partly concrete. It also happens sometimes that one of our members comes the converted,” in a sense, as most of the people who see your with a fi nished or almost-fi nished work and there is no need to fi nalize it if work already hold similar political views as yourselves? Text by Travis Jeppesen GUAR other members agree. We are not really sure that the majority of our hypothetical audience Many – if not most – of your works seem to be rooted in an shares the opinions we present. We think that the spectrum of our viewers Guma Guar is a Prague-based art collective. Through their live actions, interferences, exhibitions, breakcore activism, and is fairly unmonolithic in terms of the places we use, such as galleries, the aesthetics of disruption. Is Guma Guar aff iliated with any street, clubs, free parties… Even the opinions of gallery visitors do not fully resplendent energy, they continue to expand and revise the possibilities of art in the 21st century. particular ideology? People often speak of you as anarchists. correspond with ours. Often controversial exhibitions are discussed in the media, thanks to which the discussed topics reach a wider public. If this is so, do you adhere to any particular branch of This conversation recently took place via e-mail, as Guma Guar was making preparations for their upcoming exhibition at anarchism? We believe that there is a space in art (as it is a mirror of society) for Prague’s Old Town Hall (April 23rd – June 1st, 2008.) everything that creates this society – and politics is important mainly Although we don’t conform fully to any concrete “meta-narration,” we in a democratic society. All art has a political dimension. would most likely localize ourselves somewhere on the intersection of moderate anarchism and neo-Marxist tendencies.

In every case, cornerstones remain mainly the (revised) teachings of the so-called Frankfurt schools (Marcuse, Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm), the soft- anarchist theory of The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey, texts by Noam Chomsky, essays by the sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, and the Czech philosophers Václav Bělohradský and Antonín Kosík. Lately, we have found interesting some opinions of the duo Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt, or the new book Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. We could follow name dozens of other texts that are refl ected in the work of Guma Guar’s work.

What does the group Guma Guar stand for? Who are the people behind Guma Guar? Or, if your What is it that you do? members choose not to identify themselves, can you explain the reasons behind your anonymity? The origin of our 3-member art and music group Guma Guar began in 2003 and was initiated by the inner need to publicly express our The group consists of three white heterosexual individuals of male opinion on certain controversial and problematic public issues, rather gender living in Prague. Even though the names of these individual than navigating ourselves through the art world based solely on an members are not explicitly secret, we do not like to mention them in egoistic presentation of our own inner worlds and building careers, as connection with Guma Guar projects. After all, the group was created it is done by most artists these days. There are many artistic groups partly as the expression of a certain skepticism towards the model of on the Czech art scene whose art is often described as political or the individual artist. At the same time, it seems that our collective engaged – according to our view, they are not critical enough and identity off ers kind of a better legitimacy as commentators of political their criticism is too often focused on “off icial goals” convenient for happenings than we could accomplish individually. Our group the current power elite. The initial central theme of Guma Guar’s activities do not exclude solo activities of individual members. work is the disputation of the function of the capitalistic world system, criticism of western militarism, questioning gender, issues of How does the collective function? Are ideas thought up minorities, a critical analysis of the cultural industry, and a commentary the function of mass media in today’s society. and executed by individuals in the group, or is everything 10 11 12 SURVEYTECH 3 and soarinvalue). old collection(andno,they’renevergoingtobelikebaseballcardsorcomics wishes thosedayswerehereagain!Herearesometipsforthingstodowithyour even thescourgeofmusicindustryforawhile—ohhow baby. Showoff Remember thedayswhenmorecassettesyouhadcoolerwere?Longgone, so you’llhaveaccesstoyourentirecollection. tapes thataren’thopelesslytangledup,erased, Your ’83ChevyNova’sstereosystemisn’tabout with iPods,otherMP3players,andCD or lost—right?Notanymore.Thisadaptorworks meaning you’rereducedtolisteningthefew to playanynewfangledthingslikeCDsorMP3s Cassette AdapterforiPod aclosetfullofcassettestoyourdateandsaysayonara.Theywere Let yourpassengersbeware! www.belkin.com www.45ipodcases.com from fi thrown awaycassette tapes.Helpkeep landfi and 2ndgenerationiPodaround—a casemadefrom and environmentallyfriendly waytocarryyour1st 45 iPodCasedesignershave comeupwithacool 45 iPodCases www.privatecircle.it cassette. make sureyoursisn’tmadefromanAirSupply the veryleastgrabyousomeattention.Just Italian designerMarcellaFoschiandshouldat They’re handmadeusingactualcassettesby Cassette Wallets

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When I was a kid growing up in Prague, Václavské náměstí was the And then there was Kino Blaník, Kino Hvězda, Kino Praha, and place to be. There was a McDonald’s with two floors; Harvey’s, the Kino Pasáž, along with Lucerna and Světozor, the only two Canadian fast food chain across the street, had three (though the Václavák cinemas still functioning. They all had creaky wooden top floor was eventually shut down after it became home to seats, moody babičky sitting behind the glass at the ticket desk, a bunch of pimps and drug dealers), and they made your burger to and tons of charm. Tickets were no more than 45 CZK; in the case order. Koruna Palác was pretty awesome, too, because it had both of the Jalta Kinokavárna, they were around 20 CZK. If you came CDs (Bontonland) and chocolate frosting (Dunkin’ Donuts). late, the grumbly grandma would escort you to your assigned But most importantly, and long before cabaret brothels and fast seat with the help of a flashlight. Crucially, there were no real food restaurants uglied up the square, Václavák was where all the age restrictions, so the other eleven-year-olds and I were free to best movie theatres were—about ten of them, if I remember right. educate ourselves by watching the sex scenes in R-rated movies like House of the Spirits and Stealing Beauty. But today is the age of shopping malls and multiplexes, and the cinematic experience is a little different than it used to be. Filmgoers can choose between lots of movies playing at any given time. The seats are plush, there are cup holders and bacon- flavored popcorn, and the ticket sellers are usually cheerful and under 25. Plus, the screens are bigger and better, and the speakers aren’t the kind you’d use for your stereo system at home. With all these advantages, it’s no wonder that people don’t seem to mind paying extra for the modern-day American movie experience (multiplexes take in 75% of total box office sales for the Czech Republic). The few classic cinemas still left have been forced to adapt in order to survive. Many now play films that don’t make it to Palace Cinemas or Cinema Village, or act as second-run theatres where you can see major blockbusters for cheaper once the larger cinemas are finished with them. Kino Světozor, which specializes in art-house films and documentaries, recently underwent a full renovation, adding a larger screen, comfy seats (including a few double seats designed for snuggling), and brand-new projectors and speakers. Václavské náměstí is set to undergo some major changes in the coming years, with a complete redesign helmed by the architectural firm Cigler Marani. Once the project is finished, the square’s sidewalks will be wider, there will be fewer parked cars, and trams will zip up and down the boulevard, just as they used to. There was Kino Alfa, where I saw Forrest Gump and Speed and fell But can Václavák regain its status as Prague’s cultural hub? Not in love with the impossibly heroic Keanu Reeves. Kino Paříž, where unless your idea of culture includes sausage stands and strip my gym now happens to be located, was a gorgeous, rickety old clubs, which don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. theatre built in 1930, and Kino Jalta had an incredible invention called the Kinokavárna, which was basically a dark, smoky pub where you could drink beer while you watched Bad Girls on Meanwhile, with every classic kino that shuts its doors, a TV-sized screen. the soul of the square gets a little bit smaller.

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