JAMA
Performers
Soundcamp Cooperative / Locus Sonus (SK)
\Acoustic Commons

VilaBela, a small family homestead on the outskirts of Banská Belá, becomes one of the locations for JAMA 78 this year. Additionally, its sound will become part of the global network of acoustic transmissions, Locustream, during JAMA. You can hear...
Matej Sloboda (SK)
\Lecture

Am I singing off-key? Playing an instrument and it sounds like cats wailing? But how do we create harmonies and accurately judge by ear when it’s “right”? Should I use a tuner? Sine waves? No, I’ll use my ears! But...
Milan Adamčiak (SK)
\Local

Milan Adamčiak was a Slovak conceptual artist, visual artist, musician, author of visual poetry, composer, and musicologist. He focused on graphic scores, performance art, visual and concrete poetry, and experimental composition. In 1989, he co-founded the avant-garde ensemble Transmusic comp.,...
Open Culture! (SK)
\Discussion

The Open Culture! Platform was established in early 2024 in response to the initial steps taken by the current leadership of the Ministry of Culture aimed at dismantling the cultural sector in Slovakia. As a non-partisan civic initiative of the...
Zuzana Mojžišová and Artforum Publishing (SK)
\Off-program\Discussion\Books

This year, Artforum Publishing will donate 15 books from its catalog to the local library in Banská Belá as part of JAMA. Among them will be books by Zuzana Mojžišová, who will meet with her publisher and the founder of...
Flash Art and Ilona Németh (SK)
\Off-program\Discussion

  As part of the JAMA 78 program, there will be a discussion accompanied by the presentation of the 73rd issue of Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition on the theme of Festivals. Art festivals, symposia, and seminars serve as...
Dominik Hlinka (SK)
\Installation

Dominik Hlinka brings a glimpse of science fiction to JAMA 78, set in the rural landscape near Banská Štiavnica. TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) – a time machine and also a name well known to fans of a...
Banská St a nica Contemporary (SK)
\Local\Happening\Screening

At the turn of the millennium, Svätopluk Mikyta began drawing his memories of Orava, encapsulating them in an expansive series of drawings of sprouting potatoes, their shoots reaching toward the light. His “potato period” culminated in 2008, a year he...
Petra Fornayová / AST (SK)
\Performance

Petra Fornayová has previously held a lecture and run around the tennis court at JAMA, and this year she returns once again to breathe life into both old and new myths from the region with her performance titled sevenwomen, inviting...
Bári Raklóri and Lucia G. Stach (SK)
\Performance\Situation

An art historian with a long-standing relationship with JAMA and a Roma artist come together at the 78th year of M.A. in a performative, poetic encounter. Titled Halgato for Two Funnels, their performative situation touches on time, memory, and identity....
EnsembleSpectrum (SK)
\Concert

EnsembleSpectrum is one of the most prominent Slovak ensembles specializing in 20th and 21st-century chamber music. What began as a desire to perform lesser-known and new works—often mentally and technically challenging—has, over the years, evolved into a passion and a...
Eva Škrovinová (SK)
\Off-program\Exhibition

At the very end of JAMA 78, we invite you to the opening of an exhibition by painter Eva Škrovinová, featuring an authorial breakfast snack in the PARTER BSC gallery, organized as a side program by Banská Štiavnica Contemporary. Eva...
Dávid Koronczi (SK)
\Installation\Workshop

Dávid Koronczi is a graphic designer, visual artist, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he assists Martin Piaček in running the vvv Studio at the Department of Intermedia. In his work, Dávid explores...
Ján Kralovič (SK)
\Lecture\Symposium

Ján Kralovič works as an assistant professor at the Department of Art Theory and History at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. His research focuses on Slovak neo-avant-garde art, the intersections between visual art, film, and theater,...
Robo Švarc (SK)
\Lecture\Discussion\Symposium

Destruction in environmental, social, and political spheres is on the rise. It feels as if the world is falling apart. However, such dynamics are not unique in history. If we can momentarily emerge from the bubble of the present and...
Džumelec (SK)
\Performative lecture\Symposium

Džumelec is Erik Sikora, and Erik Sikora is Džumelec. Both return to this year’s JAMA after last year’s catchy refrain em-pá-tia, ready to finish what they started. They bring with them a new project – a performative lecture titled Džura,...
Celestína Minichová (SK)
\Performance

Celestína Minichová will present a new spatial sound installation with performative potential titled Networking, No Strings Attached at JAMA 78. The “skeleton” is ready. The individual acting alone is the master of their own domain. They are responsible for it,...
Kasha Potrohosh (UA/SK)
\Performance

Ukrainian artist Kasha Potrohosh will present a new performance at JAMA 78 titled Pharmakon – Feminist Radical Liturgy and Liberal Exorcism. In her work, Kasha uses magic as a tool to deconstruct the binary structures of patriarchy and capitalism. Through...
Catherine Lamb (US/DE)
\Concert\Workshop

Catherine Lamb is a composer and violist exploring the interaction of tones, summations of shapes and shadows, phenomenological expansions, states between outside/inside, empathy, and the long introduction form. She currently lives in Berlin, where she composes, performs, researches, teaches, and...
Programme

Thursday 10. 10.

offprogram

16.00Artforum in Banská Belá
(Public library Banská Belá)

Discussion with the Artforum publishing house on the occasion of a book donation to the library. Guests: Zuzana Mojžišová (writer), Vladimír Michal (founder of Artforum). Free entry.

/OFF-PROGRAM /DISCUSSION /BELÁ78

Friday 11. 10.

9.30 - 16.00Workshops 78

Workshops with Catherine Lamb and Dávid Koronczi.

/OFF-PROGRAM /FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS.

17.30Door open
(Parter BSC)
18.00Stories for inner need & JAMA 78 opening
(Parter BSC)

Banská St a nica Contemporary (Svätopluk Mikyta, Zuzana Bodnárová): Stories For Inner Need (film by Jana Kapelová and Michal Moravčík) and a baked potato to boot!

/SCREENING /WELCOME BAKED POTATO

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Catherine Lamb and students: Energetic Arrows

/WORKSHOPS 78 /SOUND INTERVENTION

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JAMA 78 opening

19.45EnsembleSpectrum: Flow of the Static Sound
(Evangelic Church)

Program: James Tenney, Chiyoko Szlavnics

*

Launch of the new CD by EnsembleSpectrum: James Tenney – Harmonic Spaces

/CONCERT /CD LAUNCH /INDOOR

21.45Discussion and presentation of Flash Art CZ / SK issue nr. 73
(Art Cafe)

Issue 73 topic: Festivals

Guests: Ilona Németh, Fero Király, Eva Vozárová
Moderated by: Lýdia Pribišová

Free entry. Drinks and meetings abundant.

/DISCUSSION /OFF-PROGRAM /BAR

Saturday 12. 10.

8.45 - 10.45JAMA at the Botanical Garden
(Samuel Mikovíni Combined School)

Matinée at the former Banská Štiavnica Academy. Come after breakfast, we’ll provide the coffee.

Catherine Lamb
Solo for viola, voice and electronics

/CONCERT

*

Matej Sloboda: Musical Deafness

Ján Kralovič: Paper Universe
The visuality of sci-fi zines as an expression of amateur creativity

/LECTURE /SYMPOSIUM

10.45 - 11.45Unintentional wandering with M.A.
(Samuel Mikovíni Combined School)

Walk from the Botanical Garden to Červená studňa. Departure at 10:45

/ON FOOT /OUTDOOR

11.45 - 13.45JAMA at Hájovňa
(Hájovňa KTC)

Midday stop at the cultural-tourist center Hájovňa. On offer: refreshments for both mind and stomach. /INDOOR /OUTDOOR

Bári Raklóri and Lucia G. Stach: Halgató for Two Funnels

/PERFORMATIVE POETIC SITUATION

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Robo Švarc: Revolt and Solidarity

/LECTURE /SYMPOSIUM

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Cultural Revolt and Solidarity

Discussion with representatives of the Open Culture! platform and Robo Švarc
Moderated by: Eva Vozárová

/DISCUSSION

13.45 - 18.45Unintentional wandering with M.A.
(Hájovňa KTC)

Stroll through the landscape toward Banská Belá and beyond for JAMA meetings, events, and situations. Departure at 1:45 pm
/ON FOOT /OUTDOOR

Celestína Minichová: networking. no strings attached

/PERFORMANCE

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Acoustic Downhill

/INTERVENTION

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Erik Sikora: Džura

/PERFORMATIVE LECTURE /SYMPOSIUM

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Petra Fornayová / AST: sevenwomen

/PERFORMANCE

18.45 - 20.45JAMA at the villa
(VilaBela)

The final (official) stop of JAMA 78 will be in a new location, on the outskirts of the outskirts, at the very edge of the village, in a villa – or a barn? – complete with a time machine, fog machine and goulash. After the main program, it’s just a short hop—you know where!
/OUTDOOR /INDOOR /DINNER /VEGE /BAR

Dominik Hlinka: TARDIS

/INSTALLATION

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David Koronczi & students: Talking Guts and Digesting Eyes

/WORKSHOPS 78 /INSTALLATION

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Kasha Potrohosh: Pharmakon

/PERFORMANCE

 

21.00AFTER PARTY 78
(Krčma U Michala)

Traditional JAMA after-party at our most beloved spot in Banská Belá. No DJ, because we’ve got THE JUKEBOX! Finale: Last wo/man standing.
/PARTY /BAR

Sunday 13. 10.

offprogram

10.00 - 14.00Eva Škrovinová: You shall not hang!
(Parter BSC)

Opening of the exhibition with a curated breakfast buffet. 

/VERNISAGE /OFF-PROGRAM

Adresy
Public library Banská Belá. Banská Belá 83, Banská Belá
Parter BSC. A. Gwerkovej-Göllnerovej 6, Banská Štiavnica (Prístup do priestoru je po kovových schodoch z ulice nadol alebo zdola od plavárne na Mládežníckej ulici cez park hore.)
Evangelic Church. Radničné Square 106, Banská Štiavnica
Art Cafe. Akademická 327/2, Banská Štiavnica
Samuel Mikovíni Combined School. Akademická 13, Banská Štiavnica
Hájovňa KTC. Nad Rozgrundom 1, Banská Štiavnica
VilaBela. Banská Belá 188, Banská Belá
Krčma U Michala. Banská Belá 282
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