An award-winning experimental filmmaker with expertise in media and cinema studies, Chi Jang Yin's work investigates the missing gaps in history that are invisible to others. Yin's expertise in experimental cinema, VR documentaries, Cinéma Vérité, photography and performance art informs a diverse body of work recognized internationally in galleries, exhibitions, and film festivals. Her films have been shown at Academy Award-qualifying film Festivals such as the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; Los Angeles Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival; Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, and The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Netherlands. Her work was invited to the professional film market at Visions du Réel, Nyon in Switzerland. She received her BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Yin is an Associate Professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, USA.
Pavel Drábek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice at the University of Hull, UK, and is currently a visiting professor at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno, CZ. He publishes on theatre theory, early modern theatre history, and drama translation and adaptation. He is also a playwright, librettist and translator in spoken drama, radio, and opera. He has collaborated with Prague Quadrennial as a member of the International Team since 2017, co-curating PQ Talks and PQ Best Publication Award. His co-edition (with David Drozd) of Otakar Zich’s seminal theatre theory work Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art: Theoretical Dramaturgy (1931), co-translated with Tomáš P. Kačer, came out with Karolinum UP in late 2024. His and Josh Overton’s one-woman play La Pícara: The Incredible Story of the Lieutenant Nun is opening in Mikro-Teatro in Brno in March 2025 (dir. Jan Cimr, performed by Kateřina Jebavá).
Zuzana Brožek Holbeinová (*1992) is an actress and PhD student at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. Her professional career includes engagements at the Městské divadlo Brno, Moravské divadlo Olomouc, SeMaFOR, DJKT Plzeň, National Theatre Moravian-Silesian and National Theatre Brno. She has been involved in such productions as Ray Bradbury 2116, Doctor Ox, The Years of the Jackal, Elizabeth, West Side Story, The Wonder Pot, The Merry Widow and many others.
She is a graduate of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague in musical acting (2018) and has a Master's degree in theatre theory and history from Charles University (2017). She is currently pursuing her PhD studies at JAMU, where she is working on the specific needs of professional actors in theatre. In her academic and artistic practice, she combines personal experience with academic research and seeks ways to convey the topic sensitively and authentically through theatre production.
She believes that theatre can be not only an art, but also a means to understand and reflect on diverse life experiences.
Ivo Kristián Kubák graduated from the Department of Dramatic Theatre at DAMU and the Department of Theory and Criticism at DAMU, currently a student of the doctoral study program at DAMU and an external teacher at the KČD DAMU. Together with dramaturg Marie Nováková, he is the founder of the independent theatre company Tygr v tísni and the independent theatre Divadlo VILA Štvanice, artistic director of the Antická Štvanice festival. Two-time curator of the Prague Quadrennial 2015 (GOLEM Cube project) and 2019 (CAMPQ project). Dramaturg and director of the series Kontexty (Český rozhlas Vltava, 2019), creative producer of Czech Television (2020-2025). He is the editor and co-author of the book Immersive Theatre and Media (Pražská scéna, 2015). In his directing work and research, he deals with theatre and performance in non-traditional forms and non-traditional spaces, but also with ancient drama and its outdoor performances.
Jan Motal is an experimental artist, author, and philosopher. In his work and theory, he focuses on the relationship between radicality and dialogue. He teaches students of media, theatre, and ethics in culture at universities in Brno and Olomouc. He is involved in advocating for the social responsibility of the media, works as an expert at the Foundation for Independent Journalism, and serves on the editorial board of the independent newspaper Deník N. He heads the Centre for Media Ethics and Dialogue at Masaryk University and is a co-founder of the annual conference on ethics in documentary film at the IDFF Jihlava. He is a member of the artistic group Dílo, which publishes a magazine of the same name (www.casopisdilo.cz).
He has published numerous books on theatre, film, and religion, most recently Radical Dramaturgy and Radical Theology. His work elaborates on the ideas of anarchism, the environmental movement, and radical social critique aimed at creating autonomous democratic spheres of self-sufficiency and cooperation. This includes a critique of the contemporary art world and the principles associated with the prevailing notions of authorship and elitist approaches to artistic self-expression.
Eliška Vavříková
Performer, choreographer, director, and teacher. She graduated in acting from DAMU in Prague and completed her doctoral studies there as well. She was a long-time member of the international physical theatre ensemble Farm in the Cave, which received numerous Czech and international awards, and she contributed to most of its projects as a performer, assistant director, choreographer, or researcher. At the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), in the Department of Nonverbal Theatre, she teaches authorial creation and the prerequisites of acting creation. She collaborates with various theatrical organizations, including institutions and theaters that actively contribute to the development of performing arts. She is a member of the academic board of the doctoral study program in Stage Creation and Theory of Stage at AMU. She is engaged in her own artistic activities connected with artistic research and publishing. Her scientific and artistic projects have been presented both in academic settings and at theatre festivals.
Eva Dvořáková
Voice coach, therapist, and lecturer in the fields of verbal and nonverbal communication, specializing in the psychology of expression. She currently works at the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she focuses on verbal and nonverbal communication, as well as the psychology of facial expressions and gestures in the context of artistic expression. In the field of voice training for performers, she specializes in the specific needs of artists, particularly on the combination of voice and gesture as equal means of expression. As a voice therapist with two certifications from the Ministry of Health, she is dedicated to the re-education and therapy of vocal professionals, collaborating with phoniatric, ENT, and speech therapy clinics on the treatment of both functional and organic voice disorders. In 2018, she received an award for a pilot study on voice resonance techniques in students of HAMU and DAMU.
Kateřina Vernerová
Performer in the field of mime and physical theatre. She is a co-founder of the theatre company Invisible Children and is currently a student in the Master's programme at the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at the Academy of Music and Dance in Prague. She graduated from the Bachelor's programme with the performance Milá. In 2021 she graduated from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and in 2019 - 2021 she studied at the Budil Theatre School in Prague.
As part of her BA studies at the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at HAMU in 2022 - 2023, she was part of the artistic research Being Elsewhere than Here - Trigger Point.
Karolina Raimund has long been devoted to the medium of photography and
the possibilities of its representation. Now she likes to work with
textile printing. Her work is devoted to posthumanist themes, which
follow on from the practice and study of feminist art. She doesn't get
into things that others can do and stays on the edges, exploring the
entropy of multiple fields. In her work, she applies knowledge from
anthropology and sociology. She works as a teacher at FaVU BUT in Brno
in the Body Design Studio, of which she was also one of the first
graduates.
Director and Scenographer, born in Copiapó, Chile. Based in Prague, Czech Republic. Currently, he is finishing his studies of Direction of Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Theater Design from the University of Chile. His performances playfully explore his obsession with making, costume design, materials and masking as queer strategies that temporarily alter our relationship with the everyday.
He currently collaborates with an international team of artists as the Director of his own stage creations, including the projects “Máscara”, “Memento Mori”, and “Home is the Place Where Our Memory Is”, while also actively working as a Dramaturg and Lighting Designer in several international projects ("Is Joy", "150 BPM", "July 3,1998, nothing ever truly dies", amongst others). Since 2011, he has led Complejo Conejo, a Chilean collective focused on public space, which has actively participated in the last three editions of the Prague Quadrennial, most notably in his role as National Curator of the Chilean pavilion (2023).
