This year, the Prototyp Festival will open with a unique fashion performance that merges fashion, art, technology, and philosophy. Audiences will experience an original runway show by designer Klára Židková, inspired by the ideas of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard on simulacra and simulation. In dialogue between traditional wedding dresses and AI-generated visual imagery, the performance becomes a metaphor for life in a web of images — where the boundaries between reality and its virtual reflections dissolve.
The evening will also feature 3D-printed dresses by designer Nataliya Grimberg, exploring the transformation from virtual to physical — and back again. Using 3D printing as both a creative and production tool, her work blurs the line between the digital and the tangible.
Created in collaboration with FabLab Brno, the dresses will remain on display throughout the festival.
Location: Vodojemy Žlutý kopec
Date: October 9, 2025 — at 6 pm & 7 pm
Tickets: 690 Kč
FASHION PERFORMANCE
THE WEDDING WITH SIMULACRUM
Klára Židková
Watertanks Žlutý kopec
Wedding dresses, evoking countless familiar symbols, step outside their traditional frame. Instead of ritual garments promising eternal happiness, they become projection surfaces — where the future is uncertain yet open. Like our own lives, both real and virtual, they are perhaps white canvases onto which we project visions, simulacra, of ourselves.
3D-PRINTED DRESSES
Nataliya Grimberg
Watertanks Žlutý kopec
This collection examines how the virtual becomes physical — and how the physical can return into the digital realm. 3D printing is used here as both a creative and manufacturing tool to blur the boundaries between worlds. The dress exists simultaneously in multiple dimensions — as a purely digital form and as a tangible object. Developed in collaboration with FabLab Brno.