Kateřina Svobodová is a guide to Prague cemeteries.
Kateřina studied art history, and cemeteries are full of art.
Art in its original location, in a natural space, not in a gallery according to a curatorial intention.
In a beautiful space, in nature, in silence, in harmony with nature and the city around.
But today, funeral sculptures are almost never made. What to do to bring them back?
And can preparing a statue for a grave help process the death of a loved one?
After all, we had several clients who made the Coffin themselves, and it helped them.
We made urns from LEGO with the children.
And while we're on the subject of children, we see it as a big problem that they have never been to a funeral, nor have they seen anyone dead - and that's where the whole societal repression of death begins.
So, what if we helped them get acquainted with death by taking them to the cemetery?
For example, in history class: Let them see Božena Němcová and Neruda and Čapek and Dvořák with Smetana at the Vyšehrad Cemetery. And everything else with them.
It sounds natural and even cheap.
So, while recording the podcast, we came up with the project "Children in the Cemetery."
Anyway, come for a tour of the cemetery with Kateřina, you can find the dates in her Facebook group "For all Taphophiles", or on the Hrbitovy.cz website.