Go East! Life is peaceful there!

(Exclusive: still image from raw footage of Tereza Buskova's latest project exploring the Czech Carnival Masopust 2010)

Today Tereza Buskova marches back Eastwards to Prague/Praha. But don't get too excited 'the unbigoted of Rochadale', there she will remain only for as long as she works with local expert artisans to hammer out two magnificent screen prints that will underpin her latest video and performance work exploring the Czech winter Carnival 'Masopust'. This Bohemian carnival colourfully dances on the bitterly cold face of austerity, which is perhaps something we could all do a little more of.

Sadly Rowena Chiu has been taken away from curating the project after the art giant's Hauser & Wirth snapped her up and took her away to Zurich. But do not be sad because the fabulous Rob Diament appears to be stepping into the breach and beginning his transition from art collector aficionado & acclaimed musician to an all out contemporary renaissance man.

(Festive Days, Tereza Buskova Screen Print 2008)

And as Buskova goes East to complete these latest prints, her 'Forgotten Marriage' series of 2008 are travelling with Waterside Projects & the Czech Centre to Viennafair for the preview tonight! There, thankfully, a vast number of people are choosing to focus on the positive cultural output of Central and Eastern Europe, rather than moan about migration westwards like the 'unbigoted' of Rochdale and their counterparts throughout the West.