LOVE ALONE (BY JAROSLAV SEIFERT)

28/05/24, 19:00

Samá láska (Love Itself) from 1924 is a collection by Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), who won the only Czech Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984. The dramaturgy will not be built on the inquiry into the meaning of the Nobel Prize when it was given to someone no one actually reads. We want to focus on the collection itself. We want to focus on poems on the border between proletarian poetry, including a reflection on the new digital working class (IT) that only fulfils the demands of its commissioners without having to understand what it digitises, and poetism, that is, conceiving of the world as an infinite and spontaneous poetry or poetics. It’s like a water tower, an amazing piece of craftsmanship that has become a temple, and moreover, has become overgrown with dog wine.

Petr Hromádka – Underground – order BCO
Justė Janulytė – Sleeping Patterns
Ondřej Štochl – Three Movements of Acceptance for clarinet and orchestra (2019) – transkription for clarinet and BCO
Tomáš Šenkyřík – The sounds of Brna
Noemi Savková – order

BCO – Pavel Šnajdr