Date: 06.10.2025 — 14.10.2025
Beginning: 19:00
The screening program Things That Didn’t Happen focuses on subversive strategies that expose hidden power structures. It employs role-play, impersonation, and small, seemingly harmless acts of everyday sabotage – subtle gestures that ultimately challenge institutional authority, manipulate reality, and blur the boundaries between staging and actuality. These performative interventions raise questions about how collective memory is shaped and rewritten, and how entrenched social norms can be destabilized. The program oscillates between humor and critical commentary, suggesting that things may have happened differently than we think.
Screened videos:
Jill Magid: Trust, 2004, 17’44”
Pilvi Takala: The Trainee, 2008, 13’52”
Pilvi Takala: Real Snow White, 2009, 9’19”
Karolína Hovězáková: Terezka.to, 2024, 18’54”
Jill Magid: Final Tour, 2004, 2’56”
Screening: October 6, 2025, 7 pm (etc. gallery, Sarajevská 16, Prague 2)
Online screening: October 7–14, 2025
Curator: Nela Klajbanová
Graphic design: Nela Klímová
Translation and subtitle timing: Markéta Effenbergerová
Production: Sára Märc, Tereza Vinklárková
The videos are presented in both Czech and English.
The visual features a video still from Real Snow White by Pilvi Takala.
The project is supported by the City of Prague, Prague 2 and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The screening program Things That Didn’t Happen focuses on subversive strategies that expose hidden power structures. It employs role-play, impersonation, and small, seemingly harmless acts of everyday sabotage – subtle gestures that ultimately challenge institutional authority, manipulate reality, and blur the boundaries between staging and actuality. These performative interventions raise questions about how collective memory is shaped and rewritten, and how entrenched social norms can be destabilized. The program oscillates between humor and critical commentary, suggesting that things may have happened differently than we think.
Screened videos:
Jill Magid: Trust, 2004, 17’44”
Pilvi Takala: The Trainee, 2008, 13’52”
Pilvi Takala: Real Snow White, 2009, 9’19”
Karolína Hovězáková: Terezka.to, 2024, 18’54”
Jill Magid: Final Tour, 2004, 2’56”
Screening: October 6, 2025, 7 pm (etc. gallery, Sarajevská 16, Prague 2)
Online screening: October 7–14, 2025
Curator: Nela Klajbanová
Graphic design: Nela Klímová
Translation and subtitle timing: Markéta Effenbergerová
Production: Sára Märc, Tereza Vinklárková
The videos are presented in both Czech and English.
The visual features a video still from Real Snow White by Pilvi Takala.
The project is supported by the City of Prague, Prague 2 and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
