About the BLIK BLIK festival
The festival of light and art in public space BLIK BLIK is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the Czech Republic. It takes place every year at various locations right in the streets of Pilsen and attracts visitors to attractive light installations and contemporary digital art from creators from all over the world. The festival was presented for the first time in 2015 and since then it has been building on a great audience success, which is increasing every year. The organizer of the festival is the cultural and creative zone DEPO2015.
This year, the festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Its topic will be Contrasts, or the dialogue between technology and history. On its 10th birthday, the festival will present itself with the largest production since its inception. 20 installations will await visitors on the route from náměstí Republiky via DEPO2015 to TechTower. The start and end of the route will be marked by two exceptional installations.
The first is a laser show around the Marian Column, for which a new symphonic poem is being created. On the opposite side of the route – in front of the TechTower technology center – the FLUX light installation by the French studio Collectif Scale will be presented. Thanks to a hundred kinetic light arms, it resembles a graceful robotic dancer. This installation has already appeared at the most prestigious European light festivals.
This time, the school of video mapping will transform the facade of the town hall of the second district of Pilsen - Slovany - with a projection. After ten years, the monumental video mapping will also be repeated at the West Bohemian Museum. As in 2015, the French studio AV Extended will take care of it.
An important goal of the festival is ireducing the ecological footprint. One of the measures is the saving of more than 50% of all printed materials and greater emphasis on digital communication. A brand new website has been created for this purpose available at www.blikblik.cz. Here, visitors with a smartphone can get a complete overview of the festival, can download a map, etc. Visitors who can bear the rustling of paper can print the map on a home printer, or purchase it at the festival site for a nominal fee. The DEPO2015 production team deals with energy consumption even more than in the past. The festival uses ecological sources of light and projections as much as possible. In contrast, it switches off at 5 dozen public lighting lamps. After the festival, the energy balance will be evaluated, which will be used for other events.
WHAT IS DEPO2015
The DEPO2015 creative zone is a pillar of the sustainability of the Plzeň – European Capital of Culture 2015 project. In the former train depot of the city's transport companies, you can now find halls for interactive exhibitions, conferences and theater, a cafe, DEPO market with several unique shops, a community garden, offices for rent, artist and student studios, a sports and tap studio and spaces for artists in residence. We create, produce, exhibit and sell in one place!
We create interactive exhibitions, organize the light festival BLIK BLIK, Street Art Festival WALLZ, Czech-Bavarian festival Treffpunkt in Pilsen and Regensburg, European Neighbors Day, Plzeň Design, Street Food Markets or DEPOvLETU. We also host many important festivals, fairs, cultural and sporting events. We also collaborate on projects outside the DEPO2015 campus: Summer Baroque Festival, Náplavka na Radbuze etc.
