Unconductive trash

Michal Pěchouček is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1999), recipient of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (2003), director and scenographer together with Jan Horák at the Studio of Heroes Prague (2012-2019). Since 2020, together with Dominik Gajarský, he is the head of the Fine Arts III studio at the University of Applied Arts in Prague.

Rudi Koval is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2019), studied at Vladimír Skrepl's painting studio (2015-2019), Jiří Příhoda's intermedial studio (2013-2015) and at Middlesex University London (2016).

Since 2019, they have been working under the brand unconductive trash, which is an anagram of their hometowns - Duchcov (Michal Pěchouček) and Traunstein (Rudi Koval). This play, tinged with fatalism, metaphorically expresses the inner aspects of a common working method. Waste accumulates during every creative process and production. Basket is an important and well-known concept from the landscape of cultural values. The retarding property of the non-conductive precludes the regulation of waste and the control of the direction of creative energy. So the brand is our distilled manifesto – in art we don't consider it important to finish things. What is important is the beginning of a creative activity, not its finished result. The purpose of our collaboration is to remove the deposits of the past and discover a new artistic identity.