Anti-resignation program (ARP)

The ARP exhibition project is a spatial installation consisting of textile objects, diaries and paintings. The Anti-Resignation Program is a set of tasks, plans and projects that the author set for herself in order to maintain her creative activity during and after parental leave. She drew inspiration from the program for preparing astronauts for space flight. It is a complex process during which space flight candidates must familiarize themselves with the mission, prepare themselves mentally and physically and learn to deal with various situations.

The training schedule of American astronauts preparing for the Apollo program included, for example, Familiarization with spacecraft systems (250 hours), Familiarization with scientific experiments (190 hours), Training in an airplane imitating weightlessness (15 hours), Familiarization with ship equipment (20 hours), Planetarium lessons (40 hours)…

She demonstrates this secret plan every day by embroidering a code on his clothes – a white T-shirt, which contains the name, date, schedule of classes – tasks for this day. The embroidery is readable only from the inside, it is embroidered on the back. Only abstract characters are visible on the front. In the years 2016 – 2020, several personal anti-resignation programs were carried out, which were very demanding and started again and again with greater and greater emphasis on their fulfillment. In the first phase, the embroideries are inconspicuous – white on a white T-shirt, small, placed on the back. In the next stages, they are presented urgently and emphatically: large red characters on a white background, placed on the front of the T-shirt.

Sample daily log

27. 4. 2018
2. SSS (System Introduction) – diary
2. NVM (Module Training) – house model
2. PSS (Spacesuit Work) – embroidery
1. OP (Other Preparation) – painting Exhale
1. FP (Physical Preparation) – lap
2. VNTKS (Crisis Simulator Training) – interview

Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, Zlín
Open call rodicOFFská

November 20, 2024 – February 16, 2025
Curator: Aleš Vrtal
Photo: Dalibor Novotný