Project launch: December 12, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Event participants: Celestína Minichová, Katarína Kucbelová, Martin Kosorin, Paula Malinowska, Marina Abramovic Doesn't Clean Up After Herself, Omar Mirza, Jakub Molnár, Jelisaveta Rapaić, Ivana Rumanová, Martin Toldy, Martin Zaiček, Lucia Žatkuliaková, other members of the Cultural Departments and invited guests
Concept: Zuzana Jakalová, Eliška Mazalanová, Lucia Tkáčová, Veronika Němcová
Curators: Zuzana Jakalová, Eliška Mazalanová
Space: Lucia Tkáčová
Production: Veronika Němcová
Technical support: Daniel Dida
Graphic design: Tereza Maco
Illustrations: Jozef Gľaba
Although we long for solidarity, mutual support, and collective organization, in the current circumstances we do not always have enough strength for this.
The core of the Park of Culture and Sighs at the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava is a variable structure made of plastic crates filled with energy drinks, which we use to maintain a state of constant productivity, fight fatigue, and deny our own limits and needs. The program consists of regular events—performances, discussions, support groups, workshops—prepared on the basis of an open call by members of the Cultural Departments. Let's focus our energy so that we can support each other, learn, take care of ourselves, and encourage cooperation to improve our (not only working) conditions!
Among other things, we are inspired by the practice of workers' clubs or workers' homes, which were spaces and tools for education, relaxation, and cultural and political enlightenment of workers. Originally, such clubs were created independently, as part of the collective organization and political emancipation of the working class. Park of Culture and Sighs is an offer to collectively create such a space/tool in the conditions of late capitalism, from and for today's notoriously tired workers* in culture and beyond.
The project partner is KON-RAD.
