goodbye praha

So after an eventful week of seeing five performances, millions of beautiful churches and synagogues, meeting some very interesting international performance artists and directors and hanging out with fabulous people (Andrea and Jamelyn), Simon & I are off to Cesky Krumlov this morning.

four days vtavska shots

praha ha ha ha

I'm sitting in Sophies, this boutique hostel in Prague. It's a fabulously stylish place, red leather couches, wireless internet, face brick interior and uber stylish bathroom with the most powerful shower head - note what becomes important when traveling!
style.. comfort... ;-)

I've met up with the Four Days festival people and been to an opening event last night with a whole bunch of Hungarian architects and Czcech theatre-makers and a folk band who played some fabulous Eastern European stuff. And today I went to an interesting site-specific performance installation tour through Vtavska, an area where public transport routes collide and a bridge with an underground tunnel has become obsolete.
Artists from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic made works in different spaces while we were walked from stop t stop to interact, watch or walk through what had been prepared.

a visit to the leopold

views from a train station

at the train station

off wallenstein rd

so I'm now in Vienna staying with Ash and Jacky. What was going to be a one night quick whirlwind has become a three night stopover in the city of culture.
Spent the day looking at lots of art. Klimt is everywhere and I am now kitted out with postcards, buttons and cards. Beautiful..

interesting to read about all the famous Viennese artists and their need to live elsewhere in order to develop their practise. It's not new, but it's comforting to hear.