Jozef Pilát Agrofuturizmus – Ticho prerastá kov / Agrofuturism – Silence Grows Over Steel SK
2025
Agrofuturism – Silence Grows Over Steel
PROGRAM
Saturday 19:00 – 20:00
Agrofuturism – Silence Grows Over Steel / guided tour
Agrofuturism – Silence Grows Over Steel (2025) is an interactive site-specific installation by Jozef Pilát, telling its own story at Pohoda Festival. It imagines a landscape where monocultures have lost the battle to the vitality of unwanted plants. Rather than a narrative of domination, we encounter a vision of connection, reverence, and quiet resilience.
At the centre of the installation stands the z0t0r – a tractor-bicycle powered by two human bodies, set amidst fragments of a monumental thistle. This machine is both myth and memento. Its two wheels carry two meanings: one represents local awareness – grounding in place, language, and body. The other speaks to the global – responsibility, ecological interdependence, and the awareness that no decision exists in a vacuum.
The installation suggests that the technologies of the future might be about symbiosis. Progress is only possible when respect for the past meets the courage to shape the future. If one wheel slows or stops, the z0t0r changes direction or spins in place. But this movement is more than mechanical – it carries a potent metaphor. Turning in place erodes the soil more quickly. Moving forward symbolises the need for balance between what is close to us and what lies beyond. Agrofuturism is not an escape into utopia. It is a return to the soil. To silence. To a seed that doesn’t yet know whether it will grow into an ordinary dandelion or a hydrangea with revolutionary potential.
In this installation, Pilát offers the possibility of planetary healing – one that does not begin with grand gestures, but with small things: the strength of four legs, the shade of a single thistle, and the ability to listen, even when the land has yet to speak.
“Agrofuturism – Silence Grows Over Steel by Jozef Pilát is an interactive, site-specific installation featuring an object named z0t0r—a hybrid of tractor and bicycle, adorned with fragments of a monumental thistle. Agrofuturism is not an escape into utopia. It is a return to the soil. To silence. To a seed that does not yet know whether it will grow into an ordinary dandelion or a hydrangea with revolutionary potential. In his installation, the artist offers a vision of planetary healing—one that does not begin with grand gestures, but with small things: the strength of four legs, the shade of a single thistle, and the ability to listen, even when the land has yet to speak,” adds Assoc. Prof. M.Sc Bohunka Koklesová, PhD.
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