FAQ

OBJECT:PARADISE (O:P) is an artist collective established in Prague in 2018 with a single core objective: to make the literary arts an accessible experience. Our curations are interdisciplinary — poetry, actions, performance, and music — designed so every visitor has their own individual, subjective experience. Start with the O:P Manifesto or read who we are.

O:P:TV is an algorithmically free, sovereign archive for the OBJECT:PARADISE community — preserving our poetic and cultural artifacts outside of conventional corporate platforms. It has been live since June 2026. Open the deck.

In June 2026, YouTube permanently deleted the O:P channel — the footage and metadata we had curated since 2018 — and barred us from making another. Rather than rebuild on a platform that could erase us again, we built a channel we own. The full story is in the blog: Our YouTube Archive Was Deleted.

Our primary goal is to maintain a decentralized, self-governed directory of artists, poets, and collaborators. We aim to document our collective history while fostering new cross-border connections without relying on algorithmic feeds.

No. Every tape in the Archive plays for anyone who walks in — no login, no paywall, no watch history held over you. An account only becomes necessary when you want to act rather than watch: claiming your poet profile, messaging the O:P Team or other poets, and curating your own corner of the network.

No ads, ever, and no recommendation engine deciding what you should watch next. The archive sets the cookies it needs to function, plus Google Analytics only if you consent to it in the cookie banner — decline and nothing analytical follows you. The full terms are in the Privacy, Archival & Community Policy.

It does — and you don’t have to memorise any of it: press H and the whole keyboard opens up, every lit key clickable so you can try it on the spot.

The transport. SPACE plays and pauses, the arrow keys change tape (← →) and volume (↑ ↓), M mutes, , and . jog the reels back and forward, F goes fullscreen, and P cuts the power.

The picture. X opens the Video Mixer — hue, saturation, contrast, invert, multi-screen and mirror, on dials 1 through 6; hold a dial to sweep it. R resets the lot, O hides the on-screen readouts, and 7 tints the entire site to a colour of your choosing (G switches that tint off and on again).

The channels. S starts surf mode (auto channel-hopping), D cuts the signal, and W tunes the Žižkov weather forecast. N silences the deck’s own transport sounds. Verified poets also get C — Mix Cam, to record a live mix of a tape they appear in.

Most of it works on the living-room TV too, and the little bar that follows you around the site answers to dials 1–4. It is your deck; nothing you do to the picture is permanent. As for what happens at ten o’clock — stick around.

Yes — that’s the red transport bar. Start a tape anywhere and it keeps playing as you wander the site; walk it home and the living-room TV picks it up. Hit + QUEUE on any listed tape to line it up (hit it again to un-line it), and drag the rows in the queue popup to reorder — same interface as the deck. Signed-in poets can also file tapes onto shelves — playlists that live on your profile, public or private.

The bar carries two channels, not one: the tape you’re watching and O:P RADIO. Start something on the radio and a second strip appears inside the same bar, with a rocker switch on the left deciding which channel the transport controls are driving. It is always one bar — closing a channel drops its strip and the other one slides up.

Every tape has its own share page. Hit SHARE on the tape and you get an objectparadise.com/watch/… link — a page carrying that tape’s own title, description and preview card, so it unfurls properly in a message or a post instead of showing the generic archive card. Opening it drops the visitor straight onto the tape in the deck. No account needed at either end.

Yes — the archive installs as an app. On Android and desktop Chrome an INSTALL bar appears once you’ve actually spent some time here; on iPhone it’s the browser’s own Share → Add to Home Screen. Installed, it opens full-screen with no browser chrome and the O:P mark as its icon. It is the same site either way — nothing is downloaded for offline viewing, because the tapes stream from the archive.

The regulars. They hold court in the Manifesto Discourse, they have opinions about everything, and they are not — strictly speaking — real. If you want an answer instead of an argument, type @OP and the O:P Bot will consult the actual knowledge base. If you want an argument, mention Žižkov.

Yes. Every poet profile has a MESSAGE button, claimed or not. Messages to an unclaimed poet wait in their inbox and are delivered the day they claim their profile — a time capsule, in effect. Unclaimed inboxes hold ten messages, so make yours count.

Verified Poets are individuals who have participated in O:P events, collaborations, or are recognized community members.

To become verified: when registering an account (or via the poet directory), submit a “Claim Profile” request. Our admins will verify your identity. Once approved, you gain access to the Global Network Map and extended profile features.

Or get printed. Any signed-in account can submit work to KROTCH, and if we place your piece in an issue you become a Verified Poet along with it — credited on the site, with contributor copies in the post. Worth knowing before you send: we prioritise work from Prague or about Prague, and no names appear in the print copy — that one is the zine’s ethos, not an oversight. You can see everything we’ve printed so far.

Or get on a tape. Verification means your work is in the archive, so putting work in the archive is a route to it: submit a video. If we accept it, it becomes part of O:P:TV — and a Supporter whose tape lands gets upgraded to Verified Poet with it, credits and all. A Supporter’s submission has to be in collaboration with a Verified Poet, so this is the route for people who were there: you filmed the reading, you played the set, you have the tape nobody else kept.

You can and we encourage it, but we want to make sure the OBJECT:PARADISE Archive — along with O:P:TV — is a coherent and consistent representation of the Manifesto and the community who helps sustain it. Our best advice to submitters is to watch 100 hours of O:P:TV at various times of day and in various types of moods.

Things you’ll notice during that exploration: we shoot on VHS; we don’t know how to edit films; we work within our community; we don’t shoot perfect shots or capture perfect sound; we like concerts and actions and poetry readings and performances and drinking beer and filming all of it — oh, and Žižkov, of course.

If you think you have a video which suits all or some of those variables, we have two pathways for users to upload videos:

• Supporters can submit videos but must be in collaboration with a Verified Poet (someone who’s already listed in the Poet Directory).
• ✓ Verified Poets can submit videos of themselves — but of course are always encouraged to collaborate with other poets in the network.

Submissions can be made on this page, and should include the title of the work, a description, the associated poets info, and why you think the film fits O:P:TV. If you have any questions, shoot us an email and we’ll take it from there.

Please note that all videos accepted for submission will be uploaded permanently on Archive.org under the OBJECT:PARADISE Label — so please make sure you have consent and applicable rights for anything and anyone that’s featured in your video.

KROTCH Mag is our monthly 16-page samizdat-style zine of community-based (f)art. We read poetry, visual work, comics, photography, and general nonsense on a rolling basis — through the SUBMIT form on the KROTCH page. You’ll need to be signed in, to have read the Manifesto, and to be at peace with the fact that your name will not be printed in the physical copy (kind of our thing). Prague-based and DIY work especially welcome.

A Supporter account is anyone — you sign up under your first and last name and you can chat in the Discourse, message poets, build tape shelves, and put yourself on the Community Map. A ✓ Verified Poet is someone whose work is actually in the archive: claim your profile from the directory, an admin checks you are who you say you are, and your account becomes the archive’s record of you — galleries, credits, lore, the works. Supporters who later end up on a tape get upgraded, name and all.

The fastest way across that line is to bring something. Get a piece into KROTCH, or submit a video — a Supporter’s submission has to be in collaboration with a Verified Poet (tag them in the form), which is exactly the situation of someone who was in the room with a camera. If we take it, it goes into O:P:TV under your credit and your account gets verified with it. Verified Poets can then submit videos of themselves, plus the rest of the kit: the Global Network Map, galleries, lore, and Mix Cam on tapes you appear in.

Yes — collaboration is the whole point. We’ve curated events, screenings, and interdisciplinary happenings across Central Europe with partner collectives. If you’re a venue, festival, or collective who wants to work together, write to info@objectparadise.com and tell us what you have in mind.

KROTCH is print-only and sold for 50 Kč — less than a beer — at select locations and through dealers across Prague. The KROTCH page has the full story and every issue; you can read all of it online in Explore KROTCH. Tapes and other artifacts turn up at our events. Everything is hand-made in small numbers, so it comes and goes — if you want something we’ve run out of, let us know.

Yes, and please tell us. Credits are curated by hand, tape by tape — and the Poets Directory, the Network Map, and the search index all read from them, so an uncredited performance is a poet missing from the whole archive. Email info@objectparadise.com (or use the Curatorial Request button on the tape) with the tape and the name as you want it spelled, and we’ll correct the record.

Use the CURATORIAL REQUEST button on the tape in question — that keeps your request attached to the material it concerns. If it spans more than one tape, or you would rather not say it in a form, message the O:P Team directly. Sovereignty over the archive means nothing if it does not extend to the people inside it. If your request is urgent, email us at info@objectparadise.com.

For anything at all — press, collaboration, corrections, or just to say hello — email info@objectparadise.com. Signed-in poets can also message the O:P Team directly from inside the deck. This archive is a project of OBJECT:PARADISE, z.s. (IČO: 09829911).