Floor Is Lava
The exhibition will explore themes of gendered emotions, ingrained and encoded approaches and readings of seemingly clearly defined, apparently set-in-stone elements of human life. It will look for answers to the following questions: What is anger? How do we as a society approach and utilise it? What is grief? How do we overcome it both privately and collectively? What is birth and what is death? And how does its cycle relate to immortality? What coping mechanisms do we apply and when? And how do we unlearn it all? “Floor is Lava” is an international group exhibition that searches for neural pathways leading out of the usual cul-de-sac of heteronormative structures of thinking and rules governing our quotidian experience.
Participating Artists: Hynek Alt / Petra Feriancová / Adrián Kriška / Marie Lukáčová / Martin Maeller / Ruth Novaczek / Anni Puolakka & Ellie Rae Hunter / P Staff / Iveta Schovancová
Program 22.06.2023
18h, A Window
Bluebeard’s Castle
Artist: Melanie Ebenhoch
Curator: Jen Kratochvil
19h, A Hall & A Black Box
Floor Is Lava
Participating Artists: Hynek Alt / Petra Feriancová / Adrián Kriška / Marie Lukáčová / Martin Maeller / Ruth Novaczek / Anni Puolakka & Ellie Hunter / P Staff / Iveta Schovancová
Curators: Denis Kozerawski & Jen Kratochvil
19h, A Ring
Neuroworm and Machines of Escape
Digital Arts (AFAD) x Architecture Studio II (AFAD) x Architecture III (UMPRUM)
19:30h, A Hall
Performance by Ruth Novaczek: Ghost Situation
(as part of Floor Is Lava)
22h, Fuga
Kunsthalle Bratislava – Floor Is Lava (There is a space for collective joy before you die)
Venue: Fuga
Door opens at 21h
Start at 22h
Entrance fee 5€
Lineup: DJ AstraZeneca, hadri, Microchic, NEW MAGIC MEDIA