Euro Tour: Prague

Vermin on the Mount was honored to be a guest of the Prague Microfest, which kicked off with the launch of VLAK 5, the biggest, most audacious, and last issue of the international magazine of arts and letters published by Litteraria Pragensia Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Charles University in Prague. Vermin on the Mount + VLAK was held at NoD an experimental art space just steps away from the main square. Olga Pek, a member of VLAK’s editorial collective and festival organizer, introduced the first a reading of Philippe Sollers’s H, a unpunctuated text inspired by the 1968 student uprising in Paris, published for the first time in English by Equus Press. Excerpts from H were read in French and English by Veronica X and David Vichnar. David then took over as emcee and introduced the playwright Morgan Childs who staged a reading of a new short dramatic work in which a character named Jim chews much too loudly. This was followed by a short film by Ken Nash who read from his short story Brain Harvest. English musician and writer Phil Shoenfelt was joined by Arwen Bird who channelled Sophia Disgrace (a last-minute scratch) for a performance of Kamikaze Skull. After a brief musical interlude by Phil Shoenfeld and David Babka, Louis Armand read from Cairo, Jim Ruland read from Forest of Fortune and Thor Garcia read from a new work, “Eat the Rotten Eggs,” which appears in VLAK. Damian Ober reading from Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America was beamed in from Massachusetts. The jazz ensemble Happy Funeral closed out the evening and DJ Count  Portmon entertained the afterparty deep into the night.