89 Midway Studios Art talk with Family Kohout
June 24, 2021 on Zoom
89 is an informal “art salon” where Midway Studios residents get together to share their art.
Curated by Olga Shmuylovich.
Join us live on Zoom as the “Perpetual Performer” Milan Kohout, his wife Petra Dankova, and their daughter Emma Filomena Kohoutova talk about their artistic lives.
Listen to the Kohout family Artist Talk on YouTube
Petra Dankova is a documentary photographer, art editor, and journalist.
Many of her photographs were published in different magazines and books.
Emma Filomena Kohoutova is a graphic and conceptual spontaneous and instinctive artist.
She sees the human world as a melting pot of equality and love.
Milan Kohout is an internationally recognized performance artist, writer, poet, filmmaker. His art philosophy was formed in the Czechoslovakia underground art movement.
In 1986 he was expelled by the government from Czechoslovakia for his artistic human rights activism.
His bestseller book „Proveď vola světem,volem zůstane“ and a book of poems “Vztek” was published in 2011 and 2017 in Czechia.
A 350-page English/Czech large-format full-color monograph book, with many photographs of performances and situational posters which covers nearly 40 years of his artistic output was in 2020 published in Europe. ISBN 978-80-87563-77-9
He has been teaching classes of Performance Art & Politics at TUFTS University, Massachusetts College of Art, West Bohemian University, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, and video classes at The New England Institute of Art.