Y: Celestial Gardens

The immersive installation during the day, and the space for performances and concerts in the evenings. Y Events creates a transformable stage as part of the Kutná Hora Performing Arts Festival.

An immersive installation designed specifically for trio Seaslugs – Ester Grohová, Klára Ondračková, and Tereza Chudáčková. Lenka Bondorová's scenography is intertwined with Eliška Kociálnová's lighting design. Together, they provide space for Tereza Chudáčková's drawings, Jeanne Ducom's calligraphy, and Nicolas Prokop's ceramic objects. Here at a dusk, a performative program alternated on each day of the festival: the magical incantations of the duo TeririKlariri, the herbal ritual of Ernest Borowski, a concert of Mala Herba, a tea ritual by Polina Klimok, sound meditation, and the premiere of the project Seaslugs of the Celestial Garden Gates You Imagined While Dancing through the Dark Flames, followed by a closing DJ set by Kvítek.
All these voices together weave a vision of a lush world that grows together, not against each other.

CURATORS Anna Chrtková & Petr Dlouhý
ARTISTS Ernest Borowski (PL), Ester Grohová, Jeanne Ducom (FR), Klára Ondračková, Kvítek, Lenka Bondorová, Mala Herba (PL), Nicolas Prokop, Polina Klimok, Seaslugs of the Celestial Garden Gates You Imagined While Dancing Through the Dark Flames, Tereza Chudáčková, Yuwen Kuo
ARTDIRECTION Seaslugs
SCENOGRAPHY Lenka Bondorová, Polina Klimok
LIGHTING DESIGN Eliška Kociánová
SOUND Matyáš Václavek
PRODUCTION Tomáš Sosna, Petra Kupcová
GRAPHIC DESIGN Pavel Kuja
PHOTOGRAPHY Patrik Borecký
MEDIA PARTNERS ArtMap, Artalk, Taneční zóna
THANKS art re use, Adam Bláha, Huang Tong-Ling, Jan Olt, Klára Pavlištíková, Lunchmeat Studio, Matěj Čížek, Marie Civínová, Song Fa-En, Tono Krajčovič