EHMK blues
V roku 2013 sa cez Košice prehnalo Európske hlavné mesto kultúry. Chcel som o tom niečo natočiť, a rozmýšľal som čo. Na začiatku roka 2013, na otváracom ceremoniáli, som zistil, že bude zaujímavejšia možno tá odvrátená strana. Že začnem točiť zaujímavé protesty okolo EHMK.
Hneď počas toho otváracieho ceremoniálu (ktorý bol zhruba niečo ako program na stužkovej) vznikol protest proti obsadeniu speváčky Anny Gaji do programu (z hľadiska kvality, aj z hľadiska toho, že je náhodou aj manželkou starostu mestskej časti).
Link na tvorbu tu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gmIMbkzwCU
Srandovná bola aj reakcia organizátorov – po protestoch ju z programu stiahli, zároveň vyhlásili, že obsadenie „zlej“ speváčky bol zámerný reklamný ťah, a že speváčka nakoniec nevystúpi, a tá speváčka nakoniec nevystúpila. Bola to iba taká miniudalosť, ale dobre ilustrovala to, čo sa môže diať.
Okrem toho sa dial protest proti oploteniu mestského parku, park sa v rámci kultúrnych peňazí pekne zrekonštruoval, ale protestujúci občania sa báli, že sa tým oplotením stáva VIP priestorom pre obyvateľov blízkych lukratívnych bytov politikov (ktorí si lukratívne byty prerobili z budovy, ktorá bola postavená ako fitnesscentrum, pretože byty sa tam nemôžu stavať).
Link z protestu tu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTs4ZQm3Wa0
K tomu by sa ešte hodil materiál okolo skupiny Kassa boys, ktorá na začiatku roka 2013 vyrobila inštaláciu pre EHMK v centre mesta, ktorá obsahovala novinové výstrižky z kritických reakcií na politiku EHMK, a preto bola táto inštalácia scenzurovaná. To sa zaklincovalo tým, že kolektív ľudí Kassa boys, fungujúci ako galéria Make up, dostal zrazu mizernú grantovú podporu na celoročné fungovanie galérie.
Stanovisko Kassaboys tu: https://m.facebook.com/notes/kassaboys/stanovisko-skupiny-kassaboys-k-cenz%C3%BArnemu-z%C3%A1sahu-do-autorskej-in%C5%A1tal%C3%A1cie-mission/10151354142010901/
No a potom urobil ešte zaujímavý hudobný album jeden hudobník Samčo, brat dážďoviek, ktorý sa volal Európske hlavné épéčko kultúry.
http://samcobratdazdoviek.bandcamp.com/album/eur-pske-hlavn-p-ko-kult-ry
Tieto protestné materiály sa mi pekne zbierali, ale potom som už zrazu nemal čo točiť (ospravedlňujem sa, keď niekto ešte urobil zaujímavý protest a nespomenul som ho).
Takže som zmenil stratégiu, a myslel som, že budem točiť rozhovory s ľuďmi okolo EHMK, hlavne s tými, čo z nejakých dôvodov vycúvali zo spolupráce s týmto projektom.
Zistil som, že to je objem práce presahujúci moje možnosti, pretože z každého rozhovoru som sa dozvedel asi tak jednu dôležitú vetu, a nechcel som skončiť s reportážou na úrovni bulvárneho ohovárania.
Výsledná reportáž teda zachytáva stav v roku 2015, Do roku 2018 majú všetky inštitúcie a kultúrny program fungovať, inak by sa museli vracať peniaze. Chod inštitúcií zvnútra som analyzovať taktiež nedokázal, jediné čo som dokázal je urobiť Vám takú prehliadku po hmotných „troskách“ z EHMK 2013. Nech sa páči.
- I thought that I´ll just bravely come and say:00:00:05.200
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- This is all the truth about the European Capital of Culture Košice 2013.00:00:07.954
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- But I admit that I have failed as a documentary maker,00:00:15.808
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- when I found out what will I need to be messing about,00:00:17.957
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- and I have no real proves, only slandering and telling off,00:00:20.520
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- as well as excuses that it was not possible to do other way.00:00:26.084
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- But why do I think it has turned out so badly?00:00:31.381
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- I think because it had not been transformed,00:00:33.824
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- because the people which will do things in culture,00:00:36.977
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- and which have done things in culture and which are doing that,00:00:39.180
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- were not supported.00:00:40.649
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- Instead the concrete was supported.00:00:43.037
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- And the official urban-political- conservative culture.00:00:45.564
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- All the year 2013 they were telling us to hold on,00:00:57.508
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- that it is not yet visible, as it is the beginning of transformation.00:01:00.200
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- But now we have the year 2015 and NOTHING, a great big nothing.00:01:03.387
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- I feel here like in empty spaces after the Olympic games.00:01:12.443
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- It is getting on my nerves, or I feel sad about it,00:01:31.843
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- but I wouldn´t like to give an impression like00:01:34.914
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- everything that has happened was bad.00:01:37.857
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- EHMK blues00:01:44.706
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- After the year 2013 plenty of carcasses and gravestones have remained here.00:01:48.499
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- I have prepared the touristic tour for you.00:01:51.138
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- Here is the most important place of EHMK - barracks Culture Park,00:01:59.661
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- reconstructed from old barracks to a culture institution.00:02:03.672
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- I don´t want to talk about the interior, briefly,00:02:06.641
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- we can say it has no heart, there are only walls,00:02:11.054
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- and clerical illusion about its existence,00:02:14.408
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- but all the hearts that could fill those spaces have rather left it.00:02:18.117
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- Metaphorically we can pay attention to this beautiful impressive thing behind me.00:02:22.789
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- As the information booklet says it is the communication platform00:02:30.487
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- providing also the pleasant shade during summer months,00:02:36.751
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- only in winter 2013 they rolled the communication banners down,00:02:40.338
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- and probably because of snowing in winter, raining in spring, heat in summer00:02:47.849
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- and leaves falling in autumn - they never opened it again.00:02:58.474
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- This cube might look absolutely all right on the first sight,00:03:09.531
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- it may be so on the second sight as well, it seems to have been here ever before,00:03:12.624
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- but it is something created specially for EHMK by the00:03:16.102
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- contemporary artist Viktor Frešo.00:03:18.864
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- I have a problem with it, since it is of no value at all.00:03:20.498
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- It is impossible to say something about it,00:03:26.292
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- it is wishy-washy, flavorless, if it didn´t exist, there would be00:03:28.546
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- no difference - Im so irritated, because it is one of the three statues00:03:29.897
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- created specially for EHMK and have remained here for ever.00:03:39.413
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- When they tried to write something about the statue00:03:44.261
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- when unveiling it - the only thing they could say was00:03:46.779
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- that the cube was provocatively placed on its edge.00:03:48.707
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- Another place of my favorites is the square without the horse.00:04:00.027
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- It is the square missing the statue of horse.00:04:02.536
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- The horse is famous, in Prague Saint Wenceslaus is sitting on it.00:04:05.447
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- We´d had it here and now it´s gone, it is not the fault of EHMK,00:04:08.697
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- but I mention it since I have read on internet,00:04:13.693
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- that the statue pedestal will serve as a platform00:04:16.503
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- for the temporary art arrangements for EHMK.00:04:20.142
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- That is why there will be nothing new here, but00:04:23.695
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- nothing has ever been here, not a single happening,00:04:26.561
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- so two years after EHMK this square is missing heart.00:04:29.519
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- I admit that thanks to park reconstruction for sake of EHMK00:04:33.287
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- I like coming here, because there is a pond and new playground for kids.00:04:54.424
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- I would like to show you some more gravestones here as well.00:04:59.707
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- All the parks have been renovated by the trick of serving as a cultural00:05:03.246
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- platform, so this is the reason why there are information machines00:05:11.377
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- everywhere around, they are working uselessly, wasting electricity,00:05:21.020
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- making noise and nobody ever uses them.00:05:25.477
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- The big fountain is an interesting place for me.00:05:32.075
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- Despite the fact that most of old fountains are out of order,00:05:40.385
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- EHMK added some more fountains, for example this one was generously00:05:42.527
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- renovated - there are nozzles making decorated spirals,00:05:47.927
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- and what more there are nozzles that can make foggy wall00:05:55.016
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- in screening - I saw it only once as a part of project00:06:00.063
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- Imaginácia 2013 and since then - I don´t know.00:06:05.561
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- I´ve been thinking of typical title suitable for Košice,00:06:09.813
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- one of the concept that has come to my mind is00:06:17.254
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- Poetics of Non-Functionality - I may give fountains as an example,00:06:19.876
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- because the fountain is functioning half a year and another half a year not.00:06:25.430
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- My most favourite fountain is a kind of slope00:06:33.214
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- in the housing estate Terasa - it used to be a fountain,00:06:36.303
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- which they have covered and now children go sledging there,00:06:39.682
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- and there is a nice view.00:06:42.887
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- Actually you can imagine there the most beautiful fountain,00:06:45.203
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- like the sheep of Little Prince.00:06:49.152
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- We are getting to the final station - Moyzesova park.00:07:14.856
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- This park was also renovated for the cultural purposes,00:07:17.913
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- so some useless boards were installed,00:07:22.741
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- as well as chess chairs, which look very delicately, but00:07:25.986
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- there is neither tradition for playing chess, nor atmosphere.00:07:30.847
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- I would like to focus my attention to the last statue00:07:50.598
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- in the public space - this one wasn´t created for EHMK,00:07:52.001
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- it was imported from Czech Republic in the framework of the event00:07:55.844
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- Public Space Differently - I don´t understand why the statue is still here00:07:58.989
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- while other statues of the project were temporary.00:08:04.506
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- I will tell you how the statue was made.00:08:08.954
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- Firstly the Czech mobile operator Vodafone during its campaign00:08:11.607
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- collected thousands of old keys and they dedicated them to00:08:15.307
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- Jirí David to make an artwork of it.00:08:20.268
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- Jirí David satisfied the goal of sophisticated advertising campaign,00:08:23.198
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- creating pretty stupid metaphors of Velvet Revolution.00:08:27.868
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- Fortunately Košice saved him, transported statue loses its00:08:34.162
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- advertising destiny, since there is no Vodafone here.00:08:38.301
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- So it becomes the noble monument placed in front of the town hall.00:08:40.651
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- Probably nobody would mind.00:08:47.327
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- Im sorry I have not discovered for you00:08:55.007
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- those immaterial things that should not be happening.00:08:56.968
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- The worst thing would be if those who committed it00:09:06.276
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- felt that it is not visible and that it was supposed to be like this.00:09:09.035