UROBOROS festival
OCT—DEC 2024

The Uroboros 2024 festival unfolds during October, November and December in the premises of Petrohradská Kolektiv  and other venues in Prague. Check the festival program for more details.

Details coming soon -> festival program

All festival events are participatory and open to creative engagements of anyone interested in these topics.

The Uroboros festival was initiated in 2019 by Markéta Dolejšová, Lenka Hámošová, Michal Kučerák, and Lukáš Pilka. Since 2021, the festival has been curated and organised by Markéta, Lenka, Michal and Enrique Encinas, and heavily supported by Chewie.

The Uroboros project was initiated in 2019 by a group of friends based in Prague, Czech Republic, and officially released in May 2020 with the inaugural Uroboros festival. The first festival edition was organised as a 4-day hybrid online/offline event and brought together over 600 designers, artists, researchers, and creative practitioners from around the world. Inspired by this interest, we decided to extend Uroboros from a one-off festival into a long-term project, re-imagining Uroboros as an annual festival series accompanied by various collateral events. In 2021, the festival was again held in a hybrid format (mostly due to Covid-19 restrictions) but this time spread over a period of 14 days and joined by more than 2800 participants. The 2022 festival moved away from the screen and took place mostly in-person, with a few online/hybrid events to enable access for remote audiences. We set our base in three main festival venues: Kampus Hybernská, Kasárna Karlín, and DOX Center for Contemporary Art to engage in art and design research experiments exploring the main festival theme Shedding the Skin. Apart from the annual festival, the Uroboros Collective runs a long-term program of collateral events and shorter experiments, including the Uroboros Loops.

The Uroborians speak many languages, some known, some not. Still, most of the 2024 festival events are held in English, some in Czech and Slovak (check the festival program for details of each event).

Uroboros, or Ouroboros, is a mythical serpent devouring itself and changing its form in an eternal cycle of re-creation, using its own body as fuel. The ambiguous symbol of the Uroboros captures contemporary social, environmental, and political frustration: it is a promise of new beginnings as well as endless returns, embodying a willingness to move forward but also the inability to break out of the old, extractivist practice of business as usual. The Uroboros symbol inspires our art and design inquiry into contemporary eco-social shifts and more-than-human relationalities.

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