Michal Kindernay
visual and sonic artist
I am an intermedia artist, performer, experimental filmmaker, curator, and educator. In my work I move between sound, image, space, and technology, and I am interested in what takes place between the visible and the audible, between landscape and human presence, between natural process and technical recording. I understand artistic practice as a way of listening to the world – its rhythms, tensions, transformations, and subtle connections. I work with sound and audiovisual installations, video, experimental film, performance, sound-based practice, and site-specific or research-based projects. Intermedially, I engage with ecological themes and, through technological approaches, reflect on environmental questions in relation to nature. Alongside my artistic work, I am involved in curatorial practice, collaborations within gallery, music, and theatre contexts, and pedagogical work. I currently teach at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava in the Studio of Video, Multimedia, and Performance while also working as an independent artist.
I offer consultations on concepts, works in progress, and completed works, with attentive reflection and positioning within the context of contemporary art. We can work together on the technological processes of artistic production – with sound, video, space, the performative component, or the overall dramaturgy of a project, including the use of specialized software and visual programming for working with sound and interactive image. Mentoring is suitable for emerging artists who are searching for their own language, conceptual grounding, or technical support, as well as for those already working on a specific project. It is also suitable for artists who work experimentally, interdisciplinarily, across media, and who seek open dialogue, feedback, and shared thinking. Sometimes it is necessary to clearly formulate the next step; at other times it is more important to slow down, listen, and allow things to mature. In mentoring I connect structure and intuition, critical reflection and attentive guidance. Respect for the personality of the artist, their pace, and their way of thinking is essential. For me, collaboration is above all a dialogue: a focused, trusting, and living space in which both the work and its author can gradually develop.