5th international Dada festival weeks 2008

KOLÍN, CZECH REPUBLIC / MAY 2008 

Meanwhile, accompanied by my future exwife Sonja, our daughter Lumi and our French bulldog Motoracek, I had moved 30 km out of Prague into the district capital city of Kolin.

In the summer of 2008 we completed renovation of a run-down late 19th century villa in order to establish the D.I.V.O. Institute. For the building’s artistic inauguration we invited illustrious friends and acquaintances from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, England and Switzerland to the 5th Dada festival weeks.

Trendy Swiss music groups including Saalschutz played “gigs” in the city’s socialist cultural center, and a rented pleasure boat hosted a fashion show for bulldogs, among other events, on a drunken spree along the Labe River.

The festival highlight was a multi-denominational mass wedding presided over by the Reverend Mrs. Thala Linder and Pastor Leumund. On the sidewalk in front of the villa a gay collective around the Czech artists Martin Kamen ran a bar for ten days inside a converted Ford Transit, and the garden mutated to a campsite, where unleashed Zurich veterans brawled around a campfire until dawn as if back home on Langstrasse,Zürichs famed red light district. None of the locals seemed phased by our shenanigans. To the contrary, neighbors were still saying hello to us, and on the front page of the local newspaper appeared a very favorable report on the opening of the D.I.V.O. Institute.

LOCATION
D.i.v.o. Institute Na Petrine 32 28002-Kolin

BUILDING TYPE
Villa

SIZE
350 m²

PROMOTION
Pro Helvetia, Popkredit der Stadt Züich, Mayor’s Department of the city of Züich,

INFRASTRUCTURE
Tea room, bar, disco, concert stage in the garden, inhabited sculpture, exhibition space

EVENTS
Performance, concerts, techno, happenings
Free Services: Transgenerational afternoons

CONCEPT AND ORGANISATION
Mark Divo, Sonja Vectomov, Jakub Hradilek, Flx, Anja Kaufmann

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Sonja Vectomov

Participant artists:

Marianne Engel (CH), Jonas Scheu (CH), Marks Blond Projekt (CH), Nico Gieser (CH), Ana Strika (CH), Ingo Giezendanner (CH), Mickry drei (CH), Mark Divo (CH), Roland Ross (CH), Anja Kaufmann (CH), Beat Huber (CH), Thomas Hämmerli (CH), Kerim Seiler (CH), Nick Emch (CH), Tanja Rosic (CH), FLX- Felix Eggmann (CH), Marion Strunk (CH), Lisa Schiess (CH), San Keller (CH), Stini Arn (CH), Pascal Häusermann (CH), Celine Baumgartner (CH), Matti Havens (USA), Rich Bott (USA), Jakub Hradilek (CZ), Guma Guar (CZ), Mikulas Rittstein (CZ), Kristof Kintera (CZ), Podebal (CZ), Lenka Klodova (CZ), p.a.s.c.h (CZ), Jan Vanek (CZ), Darina Alster (CZ), Radim Labuda (SK), Sonja Vectomov (FIN), Maria Pulli (FIN), Lennie Lee (UK), Davide Barabino (I), Amande In (FR), Micromops (CH), Pastor Leumund (D), Thala Linder (CH), Michael Schmacke (D), Boris von der Burg (D), Elektra Sturmschnell (CH), Xeno Volcano (CH), Ernst Scholl Trio (CH), Micromops (CH), Mr Soul (CH), Saalschutz (CH), Luxus (CH), Fakemaster (D), I love 69 popgeju (CZ)

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