Jan Zálešák

• I would first like to ask you how important is your work as a curator00:00:07.769
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• in comparison to other activities that you do.00:00:15.752
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• You teach, write texts, books... so are exhibitions a cherry on top of a cake00:00:17.950
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• or is it something all your other activities are aimed at,00:00:30.107
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• or are all the other activities on the same kind of level?00:00:36.146
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• Well, it changes in the course of time,00:00:46.303
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• should I say what it´s like at the moment, so I´d say this is what I´d like to do the most00:00:48.143
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• but unfortunately I haven´t got the time.00:00:54.256
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• And there is a logical chronological sequence,00:00:56.271
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• up to the year 2010, when I worked in the Gallery of Young Artists,00:00:59.599
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• so I devoted half of my time to the institution,00:01:02.802
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• and I also did postdoctoral research, but most of my time I devoted to the gallery.00:01:08.781
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• And now I devote most of my time to the school of course,00:01:16.277
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• so it´s the cherry on the top of the cake because I enjoy it the most,00:01:22.284
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• but I have little time, so I try to find rhythm and find out how much I can do within a year,00:01:27.336
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• so that the work doesn´t turn into a duty,00:01:37.083
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• and the enjoyment isn´t lost.00:01:40.372
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• I need to enjoy my work, that´s what I like about it.00:01:42.755
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• I can benefit from it but I must admit that not as much as I would like to00:01:48.276
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• in terms of my teaching activities.00:01:55.813
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• So all these things run next to each other,00:01:58.203
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• but the courses I teach here do not specialize in curatorship,00:02:02.878
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• except for one course we started this year with Zuzana Jakalová,00:02:10.953
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• and which works well so far.00:02:16.722
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• We´re looking for ways to show our experience, too.00:02:17.764
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• You keep saying how curatorship influences your teaching. Does this apply vice versa?00:02:21.841
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• For instance you curated the exhibition S-flux00:02:38.170
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• which was devoted to teaching of art,00:02:39.845
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• so is it possible to find a parallel in the opposite direction?00:02:44.756
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• This was a project which was a part of a larger whole.00:02:48.804
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• It was a one-year project under the auspices of the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem,00:02:53.970
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• and about four schools took part in it, including the Academy of Arts,00:03:00.290
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• Academy of Arts and Design in Prague, Faculty of Arts in Ostrava.00:03:05.360
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• Each of the schools was supposed to come up with their own exhibition concept,00:03:09.418
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• that was back in 2012, and most of them were more or less standard exhibitions,00:03:13.811
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• giving the students from different schools an opportunity to cooperate,00:03:21.143
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• which was a sort of subliminal task,00:03:25.471
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• and me and Šárka Svobodová decided to focus more on the school.00:03:27.109
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• This was connected with my reading some new interesting texts on education at that time00:03:33.078
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• and also with the fact that I started working at the school shortly before.00:03:41.519
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• So I enjoyed working with the school as a kind of space00:03:46.009
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• and focus on how each studio was different,00:03:51.738
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• it was my first, intensive experience,00:03:54.718
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• I can´t really compare it to other schools,00:03:56.576
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• but I think it is more intensive at FAVU than at other places00:04:02.084
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• due to a certain isolation of the studios,00:04:05.674
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• each of them is a strange kind of unit,00:04:07.987
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• working independently and following a specific direction.00:04:10.694
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• They also differ in their approach00:04:13.413
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• and I thought it would be interesting to show all this.00:04:18.038
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• So except for the concept, the work of the curator was sort of poor,00:04:21.647
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• it was more about management of the space.00:04:26.219
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• Making sure every morning that the people would take turns there,00:04:30.523
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• that something would be going on there,00:04:33.542
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• each studio had 24 hours,00:04:35.648
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• the picture was being composed and the topic I like was present there,00:04:38.193
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• although it´s difficult to work with such a theme long, because it´d become a cliché,00:04:46.386
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• and that´s the time aspect of the exhibition,00:04:49.801
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• where something changes in the course of time,00:04:51.727
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• and you don´t get the chance to see it as a whole,00:04:54.126
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• but you just walk into some kind of a process.00:04:57.475
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• That was another important aspect we wanted to focus on00:04:59.778
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• and offer it to someone who has the opportunity to see it five, six or eight times,00:05:04.278
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• and each time get a different picture of the exhibition.00:05:09.433
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• Can you see any process that you use and repeat when preparing exhibitions?00:05:11.943
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• What I mean is whether you usually first have a theme and then start looking for works of art,00:05:21.458
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• or the other way around. Or is there a method that you repeat?00:05:28.378
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• Well, I usually first see some works and realize I like them,00:05:33.391
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• and that I´d like to do something with them,00:05:46.658
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• and then it all works in a kind of weird circle.00:05:48.584
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• The theme usually comes after,00:05:53.083
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• and it defines the things again later on,00:05:57.246
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• so there is a kind of feedback process which continues until it stops.00:06:00.313
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• I don´t remember ever first thinking of a theme and then looking for suitable art works.00:06:09.465
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• At the beginning there´s always a strong impression, experience,00:06:17.976
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• or a need to deal with a certain type of artworks than a certain type of themes00:06:22.163
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• because the theme mostly comes along with the artworks.00:06:27.214
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• As regards repetition in my approach or whether I like doing something again and again00:06:29.987
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• so I think there is one thing that I more or less unintentionally used in more exhibitions,00:06:40.258
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• and that is the fact that I like displaying artworks I had seen in new ways,00:06:48.306
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• set them in new contexts, offer a new space, a new kind of installation.00:07:00.210
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• I don´t know why but I feel it´s a space where I can talk to the artists and feel that I´m an artist too.00:07:07.286
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• We can then speak about how the artwork will be displayed and what it will look like,00:07:17.024
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• this is the process that I´m personally interested in,00:07:26.066
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• I can get involved in things that are related to exhibition design or architecture,00:07:31.200
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• or decisions which are more formal.00:07:37.423
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• This is connected with the fact that I like "the hands-on approach".00:07:40.452
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