Paradise Discovered II.:

The former kaolin quarry in the Špitál suburb offers a unique experience of the wild industrial landscape, which is slowly returning to its original environmental beauty. Festival visitors will, with the cooperation of the current owner, have the opportunity to experience the specific atmosphere of natural processes as well as the context of land art interventions.

Scars,  Ondřej Hloušek

The intervention in the landscape of the former kaolin quarry works with the motif of corrosion, which remains as a symbolic scar from the mining process. The color creates a visual metaphor for human interventions left behind by the extraction. Cracks reveal layering and branching, inspiring the viewer to explore their structure. The installation  is ephemeral and changeable over time;  it gradually disappears, thus emphasizing its temporality.

The Processual Transformation of Landscape Morphology,  Aleš Hnízdil

This project reflects the recurring principle of processual events, from birth to the degradation that is the key to further transformation into new forms. Through the layering of processual events, the morphology of the landscape changes, and processual objects emerge within it, serving as sources of further transformations. The permanent process has neither a beginning nor an end, making it an endless transformation of processes that connect with one another, of which we are a microcomponent. The processual flow is thus an infinite stream of events that link the matter of the earth and its morphology with the processes of energy in the cosmos.

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