Hana Janeckova

Artist,Curator, Writer

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post-apocalyptic feminist-emphatic-home away from home

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‘Learning Technology Support’ was a project initiated by Hana Janeckova with London College of Fashion workers in the spring term 2016. It was partly to create a sense of community and disruption of the daily routine for the staff that often work irregular shifts doing repetitive jobs with a little chance for promotion at precarious conditions. The work produced had to be made under specific rules: it was made only at work, and it had to be part of other working processes,  had to fit  a standard A4 printing paper,  completed  in a working time and only with materials available at the workplace . The collages were laminated and kept in the shared folder. 

Student Success Satisfaction (2016)

Graphics on A4 paper of made of collected London College of Fashion students surveys.  The graphs were also determined by assessing our emotional interactions with students in a check sheet throughout the term.

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Elderflower Stories  Reader’s Digestion Health Zine (ed. by Holly White’s and Casper Heinneman) Raven Row’s project 56 Artillery Lane curated by Naomi Pearce 

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‘We Find Wildness’ is a film spanning spring, summer and autumn of 2015. It was a part of collaborative project ‘Zara Jacuzzi Invites’ that was commissioned and exhibited in Prototype, Prague.  It attempts to deal with the idea of self sufficiency at the time of urban precarity, inequality, gentrification and consumption of images, stuff, ideas and subjectivities. Through an apocalyptic scenario of the end of humanity in the world, it questions the idea that by being self sufficient you can really make it from nothing. Other participants in the project were Rob Prouse, John Hill,  Štěpánka Sigmundová and our neighbours Kristina and Magic who kindly occasionally watered my plants.

The project also included a publication Elderflower Stories, commissioned essay, Zara Jacuzzi’s self help website, Instagram exhibition ‘Dog Food Collective’ (selected by everyone living in our anarchist socialist house share in Camberwell), Airbnb listing  and Ebay shop selling London herbs we collected in London parks and our personal items to fund our film, and a participative site specific installation in Prototype with dinner made out of food produced in London and imported to the venue. 

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‘Learning Technology Support’ (2016) 

a working durational sculpture. There was no fee for artists included in the exhibition. Therefore, the work was submitted to the show  under condition that during exhibition’s opening, the head curator  would exchange laminate artworks in the metal stand every fifteen minutes. 

‘Useless Dedication to Laborious Tasks’ (Nov 2016) curated by Joanna Harrison, Deptford Gallery London

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Elderflower Escapes: Stories and Recipes for Urban Survival

That year I met a prophet, while I was taking selfies in the cherry tree on Vicarage Grove. He told me that the days of human race on the Earth were numbered, that floods would come and drown everybody. It will start when the sky by Vauxhall Tower at 2am starts glowing red and kingdoms of animal...

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Zara Jacuzzi Invites, Prototype,Verona, Italy Nov 2015

Host Stephany Sigmundo

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This is the first of a series on precarious labour and self sufficiency - artworks made in workplaces at the work time with resources available on hand, physical or content downloaded from YouTube etc.  Mundane technology, as a form of life support is juxtaposed with a male voice celebrating art’s modernist autonomy. 

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‘Object, Image, Object’, porcelain cast, HD screen, digital print and video on loop, 2014

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Life Support, HD video, sound  K.I.S.S. Generation&Display,  2015

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I turn the images of my voice in my head 1: ‘LETTERS’

Jenna Bliss and her video trilogy ‘Letters’ with Essay by Hana Janeckova (Nov-Dec 2014)

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I turn the images of my voice in my head /2: ‘WILD NATURE’

Video Work by Chooc Ly Tan and Essay ‘New Materials for Reading the Moon’ by Julia Tcharfas (Dec 2014- Jan 2015)

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I turn the images of my voice in my head /3: ‘SOME WOMEN, OTHER WOMEN AND ALL THE BITTERMEN’

Rehana Zaman’s Collaborative Film Project with Justice for Domestic Workers with essay by Hana Janeckova (Jan-Feb 2015)

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I turn the images of my voice in my head/4: ‘NEXT TIME, BABY I’LL BE #BULLETPROOF’

New vids by Jennifer Chan with Essay ‘Gyre’ by Cadence Kinsey (Feb-March 2015)

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I turn the images of my voice in my head /5: ‘Gentle Triggers’

Jala Wahid and Nicole Morris with Essay ‘Tactile Qualities of the Screen‘ by Rebecca Carson (April - May 2015)

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I turn the images of my voice in my head /6: ‘SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE’

Vanalyne Green’s ‘Saddle Sores’(1998) with Essay ‘In Sickness in Health’ by Hana Janeckova with info on Woman’s Building (1973), L.A. (June-July 2015)