An interactive video installation based on text, presenting a natural selection of ideas, jokes, lived microdramas, and compressed memes that the artist has performatively circulated in public space since 2024.

Please, after leaving the gallery, do not tell anyone what you have seen.

Tomáš Moravanský, also known as Panáčik (1991, Dubnica nad Váhom), is a post-contemporary artist whose practice moves at the crossroads of visual art, sociological and artistic research, performance, choreography, text, music, situation, scenic and site-specific interventions, theory, mail art, and stand-up. Moravanský lives in Brno and works internationally. He leads the platform INSTITUT INSTITUT, which he co-founded.

His work is a living laboratory for exploring the micropolitics of everyday life, the economy of attention, movement, and the social mechanics of behavior. Drawing on tools from social psychology, memetics, and everyday observation, he tests material through interaction and repetition—a process comparable to a comedian trying out new jokes, but also to an evolutionary process in which ideas, forms, and information continuously transform, grow, spread, and mutate in dialogue with their environment.

Moravanský keeps surprising us with experimental exhibition formats that play with institutional logic, bureaucracy, and the media space, while emphasizing spatial dramaturgy, performativity, interaction, and humor—always slightly skewed, ironic, sometimes a trap, at other times a way through. His tools include language, perception, choreography, and timing, which he bends and tests in ever-new contexts.

His work has been presented at more than two hundred thousand and five million institutions—at home and abroad. These include major events such as the 2024 Summer Olympic Games (Czech Centre in Paris) and the Zlín Youth Salon, as well as renowned institutions like the National Gallery in Prague, where he had a billiard table massaged. His music project Panáčik even caught the attention of BBC 1. Unforgettable moments include his intervention into the live broadcast of Slovak Radio, where he had a sports presenter provide live commentary for his concert. He became a finalist of the Art Grand Slam organized by Sport in Art for the five-hour performance Dead in the Pool (with Tereza Sikorová), in which, apart from the presence of a clown as lifeguard and people swimming, almost nothing happens. As a laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award, he constantly seeks new situations in which his research can resonate. He is currently completing a PhD in art theory and history at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. What is his favorite color?

The project was supported from public funds in the form of a scholarship by the Slovak Arts Council.

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Acknowledgements, collaborations, and other forms of participation:
Richard Dawkins, Tereza Sikorová, Jirka Ptáček, Václav Magid, Filip Ceněk, Karel Císař, Zuzana Jakalová, Denisa Slavkovská, INSTITUT INSTITUT, Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, House of Arts Brno / Brno AiR, Budapest Gallery, Banská St a nica Contemporary, Kiosk Festival, Festival N:ear, KAIR, Oskár Čepan Award, Jindřich Chalupecký Award, MEDIUM Gallery, and all those who consciously or unconsciously contributed.