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Urban Disobedience Toolkit
The Battering Ram of Imagination: Urban Disobedience Toolkit
Vladimír Turner (ed.)
The Battering Ram of Imagination:Urban Disobedience Toolkit features an eclectic selection of visual material, interviews, manifestos, instructions, short stories, poetry, and historical reflections on the last decades of creative nonconformity by the new urban avant-garde. Its interdisciplinary character amplifies the cracks in the system and points to imaginative possibilities of resistance to apathy at times when the global ruling class of the ultra-wealthy is approaching hybrid forms of neo-fascism, against which we need to fight by all possible means.
The book was created as part of the Urban Disobedience Toolkit project (https://publicservice.art), which also includes a feature-length documentary film, community workshops, gallery installations, and other gatherings.
Coming out in February 2026, Utopia Libri, 304 pages, format 126×215 mm, color publication
Texts: Avanti Garda, Václav Benda, Jáchym Holoubková, Jezevky, Pavel Karous, Leny, Anna Mírková, Pes, @pespectiv, Tadeáš Polák, Marie Tlustá, Mathieu Tremblin, Hynek Trojánek, Vladimír Turner
Artworks: Agentura Decentralizace luxusu, Akay, Darina Alster, Vasil Artamonov, Avanti Garda, Miloš Axman, Dalibor Bača, Bolt 958, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Emma Cozzani, Kryštof Doležal, Brad Downey, Dorka Dutková, Epos 257, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays For Future, Václav Frýdecký, Vojtěch Fröhlich, Fuki, Andreas Gajdošík, Jakub Geltner, Jan Glín, Gufrau, George Hladík, Lada Holoubek, Jezevky, Eva Jiřička, Tomáš Kajánek, Pavel Karous, Keim, Alexey Klyuykov, Michal Kohút, Deana Kolenčíková, Lucie Kordačová, Marek Kroupa, Krstftb, Josef Malejovský, Jan Martinec, Ondřej Mladý, Maxmilián Aaron Mootz, Tomáš Moravec, Slavoj Nejdl, Nová věčnost, Osvobozený Biograf, Pes, @pespectiv, Tadeáš Polák, Jitka Pospíšilová, Jiří Prádler, Nicolas Prokop, David Přílučík, Punx23, Redskate, Rudolf Samohejl, SHLUK, Jan Simota, Jonáš Strouhal, Jan Šimánek, Mathieu Tremblin, Vladimír Turner, Lenka Tyrpeklová, Vladimír 518, Ivan Vosecký, Martin Zet
Photography: Hynek Alt, Jan Antoš, Venda Benda, @Dami1992, Ivaylo Erev, Dominik Hejduk, Michal Kafka, Pavel Karous, Marek Kroupa, Kukačka Ostrava, Leny, Anna Mírková, Pes, @pespectiv, Michaela Polední, Adam Rolex, Hans Runesson, Vladimír Turner, Michal Ureš, Veronika Zapletalová, @zamolex, Zewlakk
The Art of Actvivism
Urban Disobedience Toolkit presented as a gallery installation at The Art of Actvivism group show at Prague City Gallery featuring multichannel video, objects, prints, etc.
10. 12. 2025 – 8. 3. 2026
Curator: Jitka Hlaváčková
Co-operation: Oliver Elser, Megan Hoetger, Barbara Holub, Tamara Moyzes, Vladimír Turner
Graphic design: Antianti
Spatial design: Jan Tomšů / Omlouvámesepardón
The Art of Activism exhibition and publication explore a specific segment of protest and engaged art in the Czech Lands, especially after 2009 (the global economic crisis) in the context of international movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Women Life Freedom, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion, etc. In addition to reflecting on Czech individual and collective artistic activities, significant space is devoted to foreign initiatives, especially those that form the immediate political and inspirational context of the local art scene. Through a range of documentary and other artistic media, the project maps examples of “performative democracy” in the form of activist, political and environmentally oriented projects, as well as contemporary artistic practice in the field of social intervention and participatory strategies that contribute to deepening social resilience by supporting civic initiatives.