RAD performance – Along the line
Conny Zenk
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 co-creators.
In connecting Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performative practice, RAD Performance – Along the Line asks:
How can sound, movement, and memory activate space in new ways?
What echoes remain from a city’s underground voices – and how do we ride with them today?
PART 1 – HUDBA MIKULOV
16. August 2025
HUDBA MIKULOV | Concert | Performance | Soundride
An experimental sound performance where the bicycle becomes a medium: as an instrument, actor and kinetic apparatus. The project explores how experimental and electro-acoustic compositions unfold in the landscape of Mikulov as the central stage and its surroundings. The audience can virtually follow the performative journey, translated into projections and sound, becoming part of a constantly changing spatial choreography.
In this part, RAD Performance enters into a dialog – Along the Line with the pictures by Radek Kroupa, who documented 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 forms of expression that can exist under socio-political restrictions.
RAD Performance builds on this spirit, not through nostalgia, but by continuing the idea of using music to reshape public space, build communities and challenge normative structures.
Routes become scores: the start and finish points of each ride define the temporal structure of the composition. The audiovisual recordings of the cycle route create a dynamic, constantly changing soundscape that combines Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performance.
