Club of Opportunities, episode 9, The Pumpkineville

Jakub Jansa

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The 7th episode of the Club was made for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021 exhibition. It portrays Celeriac again in a surprising situation: he has symbolically moved up within the vegesociety and been invited into Avocado circles. However, he cannot relate internally to this new social class and, despite the respect he has earned, feels no sense of belonging with anyone around him. At the same time, he has already broken ties with his home environment. He experiences an intense feeling of rootlessness and the only thing that can help is a coming out of his class.

Jakub Jansa is an artist working in various media ranging from film to sculptural elements, installations and live performances. His practice crosses the boundaries of genres from drama to absurd comedy and employs fiction, humour and elements of the grotesque to develop complex exhibition environments that tell stories about today’s social struggles. His exhibitions tend to merge with the architecture of the spaces they inhabit. They are reminiscent of film or TV sets, where the narrative gradually unfolds through a carefully designed dramaturgy of various elements (video, objects, live action), while we – the visitors – move through the space.

Author
Jakub Jansa
DOP
Kryštof Hlůže
Producer
Kristýna Kapounová
Production Company
Closer
Performance
Jan Kostiha,
Jamilya Andreyeva,
Soňa Beaumont,
Patrik Petr,
Peter Hosking,
Olesia Adamovich
Editor
Sebastian Kučkovský
Costume Designer
Karolína Juříková
Make-Up Artist
Tereza Tartusa
Dramaturgy
Alice Krajčířová
Music & Sound
Oliver Torr
1st AD
Max Horn
B Cam
Filip Smil
Sound Recordist
Tom Richman
Lights
Ondřej Puritscher
Propmaster
Henry Trung
BTS
Shot By Us
Colorist
Kryštof Melka
Graphic Design
Martin Groch
SFX
Eliška Pitráková

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