Lyana Mytsko, Louis Armand, Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, David Vichnar (moderator)
Lyana Mytsko is the founding director of the Lviv Municipal Art Center (acting since 2020). She was born and raised in Lviv, works with the cultural and social landscape of the city and for more than 15 years as the head of the NGO Cultural Agency Liniya Vtrchi (Line of Flight). After the start of the full-scale invasion, she and her team reconstructed the artistic residence of the Center and is currently creating a project of Rear Affairs for the rehabilitation of veterans through interaction with artistic practices.
Louis Armand is a writer, artist & theorist. His most recent works of criticism are Entropology (published by Anti-Oedipus Press) & Festins de Desmando, trans. Jorge Pereirinha Pires (Barco Bêbado), both 2023. He is the author of the novels The Garden (2001), Cairo (2014), The Combinations (2016), Vampyr (2020) & Glitchhead (2021). His poetry collections include DI/ODE (2023), Letters from Ausland (2011), East Broadway Rundown (2015), & Monument (with John Kinsella, 2020). His work has been anthologised in Thirty Australian Poets, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets & The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. Edited volumes include Mind Factory (2005), Contemporary Poetics (2007), Pornotopias (2008) & City Primeval: New York, Berlin, Prague (with Robert Carrithers, 2017). He directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague.
Tyko Say is a writer and curator interested in poetry as dialogue. His works aim to explore what that dialogue is, can be, and the implications & opportunities when poetics and the arts are conventionalized. Tyko is currently based in Prague. He is the Chairman of OBJECT:PARADISE, editor of KROTCH Magazine, a teacher at Prague School of Creative Communication, and plays in the sound project David’s Sister.
Sandra Pasławska, hailing from Poland and living in Czechia, wears many creative hats. She's a performer, an integral member of David's Sister, holds the position of performance director at OBJECT:PARADISE, and contributes as an editor for KROTCH magazine. Her performances are a captivating fusion of intuition, interdisciplinarity, and transgression, all served with a strong dose of punk and feminism, among other elements.
David Vichnar is senior lecturer at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University Prague. He is also active as an editor, publisher and translator. His publications include Joyce Against Theory (2010), Subtexts: Essays on Fiction (2015), and The Avant-Postman (2023), his edited publications include Thresholds (2011) and Terrain: Essays on the New Poetics (2014). He is active as translator both from/into English: he has translated into English Philippe Sollers’ H (from French) and Melchior Vischer’s Second through Brain (from German), as well as Louis Armand’s Snídaně o půlnoci (English-Czech). His articles on contemporary experimental writers as well as translations of contemporary poetry and fiction—Czech, German, French and Anglophone—have appeared in numerous journals and magazines.