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Ondřej Buddeus

Ondřej Buddeus

area: Text art, Literature, Intermedia

55 007 znaků včetně mezer (55 007 characters with spaces) © Ondřej Buddeus

Hlava v hlavě (Head in Head), children’s book with David Böhm (Labyrint, Praha) © Ondřej Buddeus

A ME © Ondřej Buddeus

A ME book © Ondřej Buddeus

Video still from ZONE © Ondřej Buddeus

Video still from ZONE © Ondřej Buddeus

© Ondřej Buddeus

© Venodula Knopová

© Venodula Knopová

Key Facts

nationality

Czech Republic

area

Text art, Literature, Intermedia

residence

Prague

recommending institution

tranzit.org/ERSTE Stiftung

time period

July 2016 - July 2016

Ondřej Buddeus is Czech author, translator from German and Norwegian, poet, artist, organizer and literary activist, editor and essayist. He works at the Alfred ve dvoře Theatre, is editor in the Psí víno Journal for contemporary poetry (2011–2014 editor-in chief). Although based in the field of contemporary literature, he often works in the frame of the contemporary gallery art and cooperates with various artists from different fields (visual artists, performance artists, musicians, graphic designers, composers). His particular texts were translated into German, Polish, English, Lithuanian, Welsh, Rumanian, Hungarian, Norwegian and Italian. Ondrej lives in Prague.

EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERY PROJECTS
2014 – THE HISTORY OF MANKIND / Futura Gallery, Prague – artist’s documentation of debate prior the exhibition Comet curated by Edith Jeřábková
2014 –  “THIN AIR: A CHEMOTROPIC MONOLOGUE” / participating artist at the group exhibition Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module at the New Museum, New York, curated by Vít Havránek
2013 – second and third part oft he project A ME / book – webpages + post-opera performance at tranzit display, Prague; www.a-me.info
2012 – first part of the project A ME / Steirischer Herbst, Graz – group exhibiton Adaptation (curated by: Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Havránek) – (exhibition & book/web & performance / music piece, Tranzit Display, Praha & Steirischer Herbst, Graz)

PUBLISHED BOOKS AND OTHER PROJECTS
2016 – zone (book-photo-video, Rubato, Praha)
2015 (publ. 2016)  – Sorting out words. Literature and Conceptual Tendencies 1949–2015, eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Markéta Magidová. Monography and antohlogy, 530 pages, publisher: tranzit.cz
2015 – audio-visual presentation of the texts from the project zone intended for 2016/2017 – TARP festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 – DISPLEJ.eu: Antologie der zeitgenössichen Poesie aus Tschechien, Deutschland und der Slovakei (eds. Ondřej Buddeus & Peter Dietze, Psí víno/Randnummer, Praha–Berlin–Bratislava)
2013 – Hlava v hlavě  (Head in Head), children’s book with David Böhm (Labyrint, Praha)
2012 – rorýsi (swiftly), collection of poetry (fra, Praha)
2011 – Orangutan v zajetí má sklony k obezitě (Orang-Utan in Captivity Tends Towards Obesity), picture book, with Alžběta Skálová a Martina Kupsová (Napoli, Praha)
2011 – 55 007 znaků včetně mezer (55 007 characters with spaces), poetic concept / text collection (Petr Štengl, Praha)

EDUCATION:
1999 – 2003     
Arabská Secondary School, Prague 6
2004 – 2009    
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, M. A.
2009 –        
Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Ph. D. program, research project: Fictional Worlds in Jan Erik Vold’s Works, supervisor: Prof. Martin Humpál, Ph. D.

STAYS ABROAD / SCHOLARSHIP / RESIDENCY:
September – November 2013
Visegrad Literary Residency Program / LIC, Bratislava
August – January 2012/2013    
Agder University College, Hamar, Norway
September – November 2010    
Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
April – May 2009         
Universitetet i Oslo,
October – December 2008    
Universitetet i Oslo,
August – December 2006    
Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

AWARDS, NOMINATIONS:
2015 – The Most Beautiful Czech Book, nomination (anthology Displej.eu, O. B. & Peter Dietze, eds.; graphic design – Štěpán Marko)
2014 – Magnesia Litera Award (with David Böhm – children`s book Hlava v hlavě)
2014 – The Most Beautiful Czech Book (with D. Böhm, Hlava v hlavě)
2014 – The Golden Ribbon, nomination (non-fiction for children, Hlava v hlavě)
2013 – Jiří Orten Prize (text collection rorýsy)
2012 – Jiří Orten Prize, nomination (text collections 55 007 znaků včetně mezer and Orangutan v zajetí má sklony k obezitě)
2012 – Magnesia Litera Award, nomination (newcomer`s book, for 55 007 znaků včetně mezer )
2012 – Bank Austria Literaris, nomination (for 55 007 znaků včetně mezer)
2010 – Dresdner Lyrikpreis, nomination

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Ondřej Buddeus

Projectinfo

For Fall 2016 I am preparing a book-based textual composition consisting of 33 polyphonic texts and a series of 33 photographs (working title: zone), that is supposed to find its counterpart both as an audio-composition and a series of video works. In Vienna I`m going to finish the textual part and working on the mentioned series of videos connected to the zone project.

From the formal point of view this work is an attempt to intercept in the tension between the textual and pictorial part. (With the textual part I mean simply short poetic text, the pictorial is a long-term documentation of the rigid as well as changing structure of the Raiffeisenbank building in Prague 4 as well as a series of video shots from the metro environment in Prague, possibly in Vienna and Budapest). The aim ist o articulate the mental landscapes, processes, perspectives as well as the absurd inward logic of a “Central-European mind” or an “mind-clima” of an possible subject. I can`t hide, that this is an attempt to pronounce an actual type of identity or subjectivity: to show the apparent tension between the personal conditions (with the perspective of the heterosexual white male based in the post-soviet capital in Eastern Europe) and the more abstract, yet almost tangible interpersonal patterns (organic structures of local and global media, social and economical state of affairs in the ex-socialistic / ex-capitalist environment).

Documentation

 At MuseumsQuartier in summer 2016, I was working on a book-based textual composition consisting of 44 texts and a series of 44 photographs entitled zone. It was also supposed to find its counterpart both as an audio-composition and a series of short video works. During my stay I kept my focus on the textual part and partially on the video editing. This project was part of a long time project, which started some 4 years ago. Due to my stay at MuseumsQuartier I had the oppertunity to finish it this year and later on published in printed form (in December 2016, Rubato Publishing House, Prague). With zone I made an attempt to articulate the mental landscapes, processes, perspectives as well as the absurd inward logic of a “Central-European mind” or an “mind-climate” of an possible subject. I can`t hide, that I was trying to articulate an actual type of identity or subjectivity and show the apparent tension between the personal conditions (with the questionable perspective of a heterosexual white male based in the post-soviet capital in Eastern Europe) and the more abstract, yet almost tangible interpersonal patterns (organic structures of local and global media, social and economical state of affairs in the ex-socialistic / ex-capitalist environment). From the formal point of view this work is an attempt to intercept the simple, yet complex tension between the textual and pictorial message. Short poetic texts stand in combination with the long-term documentation of the rigid as well as changing structure of the Raiffeisenbank building in Prague – Pankrác as well as a series of video shots from the metro environment mainly in Prague.

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