CHASEN THAJNI works like mobile architecture, and is temporarily installed (as length of a year) in the center of the community, to offer various artistic and cultural activities around language and Ngiba tradition. These activities are directed, especially, to community, and managed by it, but open to general public.

To achieve multiple exchanges of knowledge CHASEN THAJNI also has several guests and external collaborators.

We work directly with external actors, to whom we offer two types of stays: short and long, both by direct invitation.


ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: LENKA HOLÍKOVÁ

In the artistic residence "Chasen Thajní", Lenka Holíková develops a series of drawings, actions and sculptural objects that make up his most recent production entitled: "ITYX, XYTI, TYXI, YXIT, IYTX, YITX, IYXT, YITX".
 
For this series; Lenka is inspired by the borders of the former Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), these borders –like many others-they were built with meshes, barbed wire, and wooden posts: Holíková, read these elements in their textual dimension: as if it were a writing, the artist extracts signs, symbols and typographies, which it then reinterprets as four specific letters: "Y", "T", "X" and "I".

With these letters Holíková creates a "totalitarian alphabet", which is acquiring different configurations. In addition to his personal production, Holíková performs a series of illustrations for our "Ngiba language community workshop", these illustrations help us to set up an illustrated vocabulary of the Ngiba language. For these illustrations Lenka uses drawing, and its referents are the various elements, objects and things that traditionally found in the community: various utensils, flora, fauna etc.