HUDBA MIKULOV

RAD Performance – Along the Line is a performative sound project that reimagines musicmaking
through mobility, collectivity, and spatial intervention. By using the bicycle as both instrument and medium, the project explores how experimental and electroacoustic compositions unfold across landscapes, with Mikulov and its surroundings forming a central stage. Audience members, equipped with mobile PA speakers, actively participate in this performative journey – becoming part of a spatial and sonic choreography that continually evolves as they move.

This edition engages in a unique dialogue with Radek Kroupa’s exhibition documenting the punk scene in Mikulov from 1980 to 2000. Kroupa’s archive captures a local culture of resistance: a network of underground concerts and DIY expression that thrived under socio-political constraints. RAD Performance draws on this spirit – not through nostalgia, but by continuing the legacy of using music to reshape public space, forge community, and challenge normative structures.

Routes become scores; roads, instruments. Start and end points of each journey define the temporal structure of the composition. The collective movement of cyclists creates a dynamic, shifting soundscape in which audience members are both receivers and cocreators. In connecting Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performative practice, RAD Performance – Along the Line asks:

WHAT ECHOES REMAIN FROM UNDERGROUND VOICES – AND HOW DO WE RIDE WITH THEM TODAY?

PROGRAM

Saturday, 16th August 2025
20:00-22:00 AV-CONCERT
with IEOGM (Marie Vermont & the concept horse)
Martin Šuba, Vitezslav Vrbka, Conny Zenk

Project-space – Gallery Stucco Hall
Namesti 6, Mikulov 69201 [CZ]
GPS: 48.8067, 16.6389

18:30 – Cycle Cinema with Honza Šmikmátor
Capturing the Route by Bike: Mikulov – Falkenstein – Mikulov
Start: Project-space – Gallery Stucco Hall

Weather-related changes will be announced no later than two hours before the start via
the RAD Performance newsletter and website.

ARTISTS | HUDBA MIKULOV

Marie Vermont is based in Vienna and moves between different fields of music, drawing, painting and collage in the broadest sense, cassettes, printing and publications as means of reproduction. She has been creating music both collaboratively and independently since 2007, currently with projects like IEOGM (w/ the concept horse), Micro Mata (w/ RSMA), BILLA ENSEMBLE (w/ Michiu, turmeric acid, the concept horse) and others. She co-organizes the concert series „knopfwissen” in Vienna, recently toured in Japan with IEOGM and released on various DIY labels like eëditions, Breton cassette, Molt Fluid, Beach Buddies Records and Hard Return.
https://marievermont.world

Conny Zenk works as an artist and artist researcher in the fields of performance, video and sound art. She applies narratives such as continuity and acceleration through audio-visual compositions and live performances. Conny is the initiator of the art project RAD Performance, which focuses on the fusion of performance and sound art with collective practices such as cycling. Since then, numerous projects in the field of sound art, city history, and feminism have been realized with bicycles in public spaces. With projects such as sound x tracks, VELODROME, and Soundrides, she has been working on a new music format, developed as an innovative possibility for concerts in public spaces.
https://connyzenk.com