The Spring Symposium on Habitats Through The Perspectives of Art and Science, 29–31 May 2025
29–31 May 2025
The Spring Symposium on Habitats Through The Perspectives of Art and Science 2025 seeks ways and opportunities to connect artistic and scientific perspectives on more-than-human actors through presentations, lectures, field trips, and workshops. The symposium will bring topics of the presence of vegetation, avian and insect fauna into art; it will open questions of value of nature, ecosystem services, and rights of nature. In its more local focus, the symposium will thematize the diversity of habitats of Brno and its surroundings, from urban wastelands to old-growth forests, predominantly from the perspective of botany and ornithology. The symposium will host researchers from Masaryk University and Czech Globe, conservationists from Czech Society for Ornithology and Rezekvítek alongside Czech and international visual artists and curators.
Annotations of presentations, field trips, workshops and bios of presenters can be found here.
The link to the online stream of Friday's programme can be found here (MS Teams).
Program:
| Thu, 29 May 2025 | Program in Czech, with optional English translation |
| 10:00 | Field trip to former Černovice sand quarry with biologist and conservator Ing. Vilém Jurek. Meeting at the bus stop Staré letiště. |
| 15:00–17:00 | Presentations at FFA BUT, Údolní 53, Brno, Building U1/Room 303 |
| 15:00 | Mgr. et MgA. Tea Záchová (OGL Liberec) – Music as vast as the universe, as wide as noon: presentation about the Czech-Norwegian exhibition on disappearing birds in OGL Liberec |
| 15:30 | MgA. Michal Kindernay (FFA BUT) – Downstream of the sound: Acoustic Landscape Mapping |
| 16:00 | Mgr. Kryštof Horák (Czech Ornithological Society, MUNI): Birds of Brno (ornithological lecture) |
| 16:30 | Round table |
| Fri, 30 May 2025 | Program in English, you can watch online here |
| 9:00–17:00 | BPresentations at FFA BUT, Údolní 53, Brno, Building U1 / Room 202 |
| 9:00 | Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová (FFA BUT) – Introduction |
| 9:15 | Mgr. Jakub Kvizda (FHS UK): Spectral hogweeds: figuring a way out of necropolitics |
| 9:45 | Kitti Gosztola, MFA, Ph.D. and Bence Pálinkás, MFA., Ph.D.: Wild Garden Utopia |
| 10:15 | Trajna + Ivana Papić: Invasive plants as agents of regeneration: creative practices for local communities |
| 10:45–11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 | MgA. Adam Vačkář (FFA BUT): Giant hogweed as a tool of imagination in visual art and of Interdisciplinary cooperation |
| 11:30 | doc. RNDr. Zdenka Lososová, Ph.D. (FS MUNI): Cities as a human contribution to the diversity of nature |
| 12:00 | Mgr. Art. Paula Malinowska (AFAD): How Did Daphne Turn into a Plant (2022), Ballad of the Waves that Rotated the Earth (2024), Branching Light and Flickers of a Dawn – film screenings and an artist talk |
| 12:30 | round table |
| 13:00–14:00 | lunch break |
| 14:00 | MgA. Lucia Bergamaschi (FFA BUT) and MgA. David Přílučík: Art and rights of nature |
| 14:30 | MgA. Tamara Spalajkovič (FFA BUT), Ing. arch. Kateřina Singer (FA BUT), Ing. arch. Marek Hlavička (FA BUT): Case study of post-cultural landscape of Planýrka, Brno |
| 15:00 | Ing. Jiří Schneider, Ph.D. (Mendelu): When a scientist presses the camera shutter - data collection or art? |
| 15:30 | Mgr. Davina Elena Vačkářová, Ph.D. (Czechglobe): Nature–society interactions through the lens of ecosystem services |
| 16:00–16:30 | round table |
| Sat, 31. 5. 2025 | Program in Czech, with optional English translation |
| 7:50 |
Field trip to the Malhotky National Natural Monument: The tour will be guided by botanist RNDr. Libor Ambrozek. From Malhotky, we will walk through Nevojice to Ždánice forest hills towards the destination U slepice (Hen’s Hill) to observe old-growth oak and beech forests. – meeting 7:50 in the main hall |
| The workshop is scheduled to follow the excursion. |
Workshop with MgA. Tomáš Hrůza: Hen and Crude Oil: what existed first? In a performative walk along the hills of The Ždánice forest, we will focus on the topic of geological memory of the place and of deep time sensations. We are going to explore hen steps and tune them with the frequency of the pendulums of the oil derricks. After the walk, there will be the possibility to take the train from Nesovice or Nemotice to Kyjov – Boršov Meadows where you might spend the night in your own tent. |
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| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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| Short URL | https://www.favu.vut.cz/en/students/news-and-calls/f26745/d289175 |
Responsibility: Jana Janečková