A Collection of Stimulants of Imagination

Try to imagine situations and areas where you run up against obstacles and limits of the imagination that you (or those around you) are incapable of overcoming. Who is afraid of your imagination, who is afraid to imagine, and why?

This collection of objects, props, texts (instructions, recipes, scripts), drawings, models, and costumes was created in response to an open call for instructions for how to physically and mentally stimulate the imagination. The collection, which was by no means limited to the visual arts, was presented as part of the international exhibition Come Closer: Biennale Matter of Art 2020, which ran July 22–November 15, 2020, at the Prague City Gallery in the Municipal Library of Prague.

Participants:

Ondřej Vinš, Kryštof Brůha, Johana Merta, Ivan Jurečka, Ondřej Svoboda, Juliana Höschlová, Kristina Láníková, Hana Slaninová, Veronika Čechmánková, Adam Macko, Martin Fischer, Kateřina Kulanová, Pavel Matoušek, World Death Camp, Minh Thang Pham, Gisel Guison, Magda Kvasničková, Andrew Hauner, Jiří Kovanda, Vít Havránek, Tomáš Vaněk, Attila Zinčak, Maria Anagnostopoulou, Kateřina Svatoňová, Vladimír Havlík, Daniela Ponomarevová, Anna Štěpánová, Eva Jiřička, Fuczik, Kaspik, Miki, Milada Petrová, Hana Polanská Turečková, Dagmar Hofferová, Markéta Richter, kakalik, Martin Tománek, Dan Vykoukal, Ruta Putramentaite, Jonáš Richter, Tereza Stejskalová, Alexandra Vágnerová, Viktorie Langer, Gisel Guison, Karel Rous, Lukáš Paleček, Ladislav Svoboda, Karel Pajma, Iveta Horváthová, Dagmar Filípková, Karolína Liberová, Milada Petrová, Ivan Jurečka, Otto Kouwen, Morris Stuttard