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Italian Cultural Institute - Gallery of Art Critics - Laterna Magika Theatre - Dukelských hrdinů 28 - ČKD Elektrotechnika

TINA B. 2008

TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary art project, which strives to combine the creative energy of the cultural scene in Central and Eastern Europe with emerging talents and trends from around the world. TINA B. is held under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague.

An acronym for “This Is Not Another Biennial”, TINA B. is also the personification of a fictitious character, the festival’s enigmatic female patron.

For its third edition, TINA B. has adopted the general theme and leitmotif of “FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT”, examining the role and influence of art, artists and artistic practice on the wider cultural, social and political sphere on both a local and a global level. This focus on the various ways in which art engages with society is all the more pertinent in the year of the 40^th anniversary of the momentous events of 1968, which had a significant impact not only on society and politics in Czechoslovakia, but throughout the world.

TINA B. 2008 - CONIGLIOVIOLA (Itálie)

TINA B. 2008 views art as a driving force that compels individuals and society to self-reflection and the contemplation of the current course of society on both a global and local level, a factor that strengthens democratic society and its ability to cope with extreme political and social phenomena, a defence mechanism against the suppression of freedom, democracy and human rights - so thoroughly defended and asserted in 1968 - as well as an indicator of a healthy society and culture.

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TINA B. 2009 - NEW ERA

BBB Johanes Deimling, Paulina Kolczynska, and Greyzone are the featured 2009 artists supported by TINA B.

The pivotal theme of TINA B. Festival 2009 is epitomized by the phrase NEW ERA. This conception underlines the festival´s determination to explore relations and connections between new experimental forms of artistic expression and the wider cultural and social conjunctions and contexts. The NEW ERA can be conceptualized by the fusion of ideas from our current period of seismic changes in society, nature, civilization as a consequence of human consciousness; creatively linking new modes of thinking. NEW ERA will take you by surprise by demonstrating a potenital future or, alternatively in a comletely unexpected fashion, by demonstrating a new kind of new progressive recycling of old forms and their transformations into the shapes of new world where revolution is proceeding not on the surface of the Earth but under the surface of substance itself.

The 2008 TINA B. show centered on the theme of involvement reflecting the unfortunate fatal period of the Czech history., The 2009 NEW ERA event sheds light on new aspects (perspectives) which were set in motion by the Velvet revolution in 1989. It deals not only with the topic of the overthrow of the past political regime and the return of freedom to the Czech Republic but also on a symbolic level exposes the new way of thinking and a new sensitivity connected with the possibilities of free movement, travelling, study abroad, praxis, etc.

The fourth year of TINA B. festival will shed light on the role of contemporary art and artistic activity regarded as a social-cultural component which is not only critical towards community ordering but above all it has a curative and positive effect as well. Festival TINA B. perceives art as a motive force bringing people back to a self reflective and contemplative state of mind over the direction of current world, whether on the local or global level, as a factor that strengthens the democratic society and its ability to face up the extreme political and societal phenomena; a pledge against an oppression of democratic principles and civil rights and as an indicator of a healthy society and culture at the same time.

Festival TINA B. ranks among the most prominent events introducing the contemporary art on the international scale for its focus on art in public spaces and new creative media as digital, mobile and internet technologies.