Martin Manojay Dušek

I am preparing a film about the perception of time during travels to the south, west and mainly the north of Finland.

~ ~ While in slow focus of meditation with stones and trees, the mist of clouds sends us for a journey to sense the timelesness. On our way we will visit museum of nature, get an insight on the impact of tourism to environments and play badminton with meditation guide from India.

Altering in Fotograf magazine, issue #40 "Earthlings"

Alter, 2021.

A short experimental film from the game environment. The hitchhiker reaches a place that has been altered by human activity. The surrounding landscape resembles a Nordic, cold scenery, there is fog and no one anywhere. The night slowly turns into a dreamlike journey into the depths of the cave.

3D rendering: me Voice: me Humming and singing: Dorota Václavíková Sound: Jan Pulo

Inscriptions in characters in the cave by Lucie Ščurková. They are made from the bark beetle paths. The inspiration for using this were the bark beetle calamities during 2018-2019 which devastated huge amounts of forest areas in the Czech Republic. It was a result of long-term effects of growing inappropriate vegetation compositions for the purpose of profit combined with the change of climate. Shortly, way too many spruces all over.

The characters represent standard alphabet, encoded. It was later changed for not differentiating latin "i" versus greek "y" as these have the same pronountiation in Czech, but written in words, they distinguish the gender of the speaker. Whenever there is group of people, the male "i" is used automatically.

The text starts with: "Na počátku byla tma..." ("At the beginning, it was dark...") screened at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2021 in the experimental section Exprmntl.cz

A live-streamed performance project. 

Made together with Ishkväro Zvan (aka Adam Směták).

During COVID-19 restricitons we created an experimental space that should reflect disruption of boundaries between “inner” and “outer” space by text recitation. This text contained different fragments including proclamations of politics, all-surrounding advertisement and also some experiences with altering mind by using meditation techniques, psychedelics or spontaneously. These states of mind were connected with feelings of anxiousness from depersonalization we both had been separately experiencing in the past.

During the epidemic situation we had the possibility to “invade” the “normal” traffic of the gallery. This “spontaineous purification” was accompanied with music jamming and noisy-glitchy audiovisual multiplications of performance’s elements by using videocalls. Text that have been read was intended to be partly disappearing in the space, therefore, non-czech speakers might have an impression at least.

Site-specific installation. Part of the exhibition called Rodná hrouda about specific landscape phenomena in Pardubice region called Kunětická hora. (A geomorphological formation, so-called “mountain” in the flat landscape, symbol of Pardubice region.) Stone from the “mountain” was being mined for the historical core of Pardubice and Hradec Králové cities. Even the cellar where the exhibition is located is made from it. 

There cannot be seen formation without light. The lights touch the stones and reveal them from the darkness. Now we have clear vision. But we are loosing softness of the detail.

Made together with Jan Svatoš.

Blow-ups, drawing, painting, tablet video, projection, three spotlights with on/off interval 1 minute. 

Carrier Phase Change

Works in group exhibition called “Dancing Around the So-so”. We wanted to encourage ourselves to exhibit something we are in a progress with, we are experimenting with or what we are not really sure about.

My contribution is related to searching for sensible coexistence of natural and cultural. I am focused on post-human materials – waste in the environment. This work is a show-up of more unfinished works together trying to visualize its connection link.

wood, plastic, 3D print, stones

So what, do we have to create things?

Videoessay about person and place.  This video is about every no thing. The edge between natural and industrial is being explored and broke down by pure presence.  How should I perceive the reality while documenting it? To become a part of the world, I have to go also in front of the camera. 

Hledání Mentefaktu / Searching for Mentifact

We are entering the Zone, we accept residues of global capitalism facing initiation of change. We know that this land is not ours anymore, it has never been. Being inside of wild-getting unknown, re-connect ourselves. 

(view on City Surfer Office; photo by Jonáš Verešpej)

Yellow Company's YC_02_Tenebrio-Molitor.

Field Brownfeel itself in photos post 3/3

project Brownfeel post 2/3

project Brownfeel post 1/3