HANDA GOTE

Handa Gote is an art group which alternates instrumentation of sound installation, non-verbal and dance theatre, live music, visual theatre and technologies. Their work is influenced by minimalism, eastern philosophy and the DO IT YOURSELF movement. It is a mixture of Czech craftsmanship, recycled objects and technologies and the inspiration by japanese esthetic categories Mono no ware, Wabi and Sabi.

How did our ancestors influence our own lives? What have they told us and what have they kept secret? What happened in their lives and fates that repeats itself in ours? What mistakes do we make again and again without learning from them, just like they did?

Waiting is the hardest part. Postapocalyptic picnic by a dried-up lake. Waiting has become habitual. The time of change has passed, but even the failed attempt is valid.

Non-violent intervention in what is left of public space. 24-hour-long camping trip.

A performance on the life of Mr. Roman, a life that was recorded in a DIY way on the 8 mm format. 8 film rolls showing the life of an unknown family became one of the film materials used in the work on the piece EKRAN. This homemade film is now being used as a central material in a project named Mr. ROMAN.

An absurd dark grotesque jointing the clichés of entertainment industry and the growing scepticism of the Western culture where neither the rambling demons of the ancient, neither the contemporary people know what to do with themselves.

What mushroom? What leaf? Mushroom as a fascinating form of life somewhere between plant and animal. Mushroom picking as a Czech cultural ritual, in which, reportedly, up to eighty percent of the population across all social strata participate. Mushroom - an inspiration to artists. Mushroom - the catalyst of decay and growth. Mushroom as a magical symbol.

I find extasy in living. A concert as the paradox of loneliness and the desire to share on the stage. A concert as a contrast of introverted topics and extrovert form.

Noise and private records. The first part of the trilogy BODY AND TECHNOLOGY (Silence, Noise, Red Green Blue), which is concerned with an interactive dancer and different forms of technique (sound, video, lighting, music). Noise connects sound and light installations with dance.

First Handa Gote festival took place in MeetFactory in Prague. 3 days of Expanded Cinema, Noise and Engineering Theatre with a special guest from Russia - AKHE.

a selection of marginal genres at Studio Alta - Holešovice Prague 7 from 13th to 15th May 2010_
In all cases, these are projects which for ease may be called alternative; totally and unequivocally aimed at a minority audience, and perhaps it is appropriate to add that all are connected by a kind of bloody-mindedness, with which they remain outwith any kind of trend whatsoever.