February 2013

Here are some photos from VJ Luper’s BLEM Fest album which has lots of great photos of all the installations and performances at Tiskárna – do check it out!
I’ve selected the ones for this blog post that show our ‘Tagtool corner’.
In the one below, here we are drawing at our Tagtools…..And here are some shots of our work …..And last, but not least, here are some photos of Jan and Dima, with my Tagtool drawing in the background, giving their performance, ‘Donkeys play Cards’.We are interested in doing more performances like this, combining masked actors with Tagtool drawing – but as can be seen in the photo above, first of all I must finish the donkey masks with brown cloth to cover the back of the heads so that the boys’ necks and hair don’t show when they turn sideways to the camera!

We were back in Prague on Friday 9 February for another evening of Tagtooling at Galerie Tiskárna. At this event we had a corner all to ourselves at the other end of the gallery from the main stage where we were able to make a big installation using a set-up consisting of three projectors and two Tagtools.The photos above show the odd angles and sloping walls of this fifth floor attic gallery space – presenting very interesting and complex possibilities for Tagtool drawing! We decided to make our installation in the form of a triptych, using the sloping corner walls for the central panel and making two semi-transparent vertical surfaces on either side by suspending several layers of net curtains from the ceiling. These two ‘wings’ were Chann’s Tagtool canvas; I used the second Tagtool to draw on the central panel. The donkey heads were laid out on a small table in the corner with the papier-mâché crow on its stand suspended from the ceiling above, in readiness for the short performance by K.U.N.T.Z. Zirkus, ‘Donkeys play Cards’, which was scheduled for later in the evening.As it was difficult for me to capture the whole projection with my small camera, above are two photos that I took of my drawings at the beginning of the evening and below is a drawing by Chann on one of the semi-transparent side panels.
Some wider shots of our installation can be seen in the photos below….
…and here is a close-up shot of the crow and donkey heads.
There were so many people crowded around Chann and Dima’s, ‘Donkeys play Cards’ performance that it was very difficult for me to see to draw or to take photos. In the photo below I used flash (by mistake!)… …and in this one (without flash) it is possible to see my background drawing.After Chann and Dima’s performance was over there was time for me to do some more drawings – so to end this post here are two more photos….There were a lot of different projections and performances at this BLEM Fest – so when we were not drawing we were able to join the large and enthusiastic audience to enjoy some of the other events during the evening!