Transfer collective - Becoming a soap opera

We are an interdisciplinary research group that calls itself Transfer. Our members include artists, therapists, parents, students, naturalists, educators, we are all different ages and stages of life. Our big theme is contact, which we look at from a therapeutic and artistic perspective. We see vulnerability and proximity as a new survival strategy.

The transfer collective was created in a pandemic situation. Lockdown and the impossibility of physical proximity formed its basic field of orientation. How to be together without being together, online, or simply without (physical) encounters? Physical distance is also a metaphor for a personal sense of isolation. The ability to be close even at a distance overcomes this isolation. We train, create, test these abilities. This is also why we understand Transfer in no small part as a way of transferring experiences, sharing sensibilities, dreaming together.

During the autumn, we will hold a series of meetings in the Olga space, which will culminate in an exhibition in early 2025. We don't know in advance what we will create, each meeting is an open format for joint exploration of the space, the theme, the situation. We come to Olga with the idea that something is being created, rather than that something has already been created and we want to exhibit it. The story of this creative process will be a soap opera. A telenovela that you will be able to play in and that you will enjoy the most when you see all the episodes (including the bonuses from the shoot:).

Our future activities are also shaped by the fact that we have spent the last two years rather in each other (in our own, differently) and Transfer as a collective has not been active. Now we are finding our way back to each other, our lives have changed. We ask ourselves a lot of questions - are the group and its principles still alive? What do we have to go through again, what do we have to leave behind in order to meet differently - through the exhibition?

These questions also belong to you, who will be part of our process - you may or may not help us find answers, you can co-create new impulses. We do not want to divide ourselves into two camps, "us" and "you", and therefore we directly invite you to participate in our activities in Olga.

1. Setkání ● 17. 10., 15–18 h ● PROSTŘENO
První námi pořádaná akce je jakousi laboratoří skupinové dynamiky, přesněji řečeno otevřenou kuchyní, kde se setkají přísady z řad našeho kolektivu, diváctva a potravin. Zveme vás na transferové “Prostřeno”, kde budeme vařit z nás a vás pro nás a vás, kam budete moci přijít jako divák, strávník, účastník či jako jakákoliv kombinace z nich.

Každé další setkání bude postaveno na tom předchozím. Nechceme dopředu rámovat směr, ale aktivně ho spolu hledat a vytvářet. Přesto, nebo spíš právě proto zveme i na další pokračování:

2. Setkání ● 13. 11., 15–18 h

3. Setkání ● 9., 11. a 12. 12., 15–18 h

O obsahu dalších setkání se budete dozvídat průběžně. Těšíme se na vás.

Admission is voluntary, you can contribute to the operation of the Olga space.