Ivan Civic, Viola Yesiltac, Daniel Mueller-Friedrichsen, Susanne Winterling, Herma Auguste Wittstock and Iris Selke displayed their new collection of photographs and videos in the powerful spaces of the Renaissance castle and the Baroque granary. In the garden and in the moat, live performances inspired by "genius loci" were held. At this event, the new catalogue for the exhibition, Faxe Kondi, was also introduced. This show was held at FUTURA from 16. 7. to 12. 9. 2004, and was created - like the finale, ZIPPING UP - under the direction of Italian curator Emanuely Nobile Mino.
* The Class of Marina Abramovic is the name for the group of young artists from Hochschule fur Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (Germany) and which were established under leading of Marina Abramovic. Abramovic is a celebrated artist known for her style of body art and is considered for the last thirty years to be one of the most significant person in public art production. Originally from Yugoslavia, she taught in Braunschweig from 1997 until 2004. Through her individual teaching methods, she lends her artistic experiences and knowledge to students, respectively in the forms of lessons, workshops, shows, and symposiums. Her students, due to an extended training that sometimes requires solitude, silence, and fasting (according to the model of Eastern and Christian meditation techniques), eventually attain an exceptional mental and physical control of their bodies, which they later express in their performances.
** The grounds of Třebešice Castle hold a significant complex of buildings, each from a different historical period. The first written reference is from of the year 1309, and thus, the complex is listed as a protected monument. From 2000, Alberto Di Stefano, the owner and also an Italian architect, began to carefully restore these buildings with the intention for it to stand as a meeting place for young artists and a space for collections of contemporary art. He also established FUTURA, which is the biggest non-profit centre for contemporary art since 2003 in Prague.
