▓ Ludomancer

The exhibition took place in the gothic cellar of the Gočár Gallery in Pardubice, in the back of which was an abandoned bar from the 1990s. While this part is normally used as a storage space, it was made accessible for the purposes of this exhibition. The result was a space with several layers of time, which then became the setting for the site-specific exhibition.

In the first room, the viewer came across a swivel chair made of massive, roughly hewn sandstone boulders. In the connecting corridor was a radio transmitter in the form of several printed circuit boards embedded in carved stone boxes. In the last room, that abandoned bar, was a radio receiver playing a thirty-minute audio piece. Prints of AI-generated photographs of forest clearings were subtly installed among the empty glasses on the shelves and in the drink menu.

The audio work is an audiobook style narrative with interludes of stone keyboard samples. Heavily inspired by, and in many places quoting, T. Bernhard's novel . The narrative revolves around gaming, its possible liminal forms, its psychology and the psychology of the relationship between the game characters and the player characters themselves, escape, solitude, alienation, the relationship of gaming to the night, the non-formation of memory, the attempt to understand gaming, the attempt to stop - to stop with everything... Unlike the novel, here it is not clear what happened to the main character.