ATELIÉRY AVU: Ateliér intermediální tvorby III

• Studio of Intermedia Art 3 School of Tomáš Vaněk00:00:13.941
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• Originally, this was a studio of conceptual art.00:00:24.409
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• I don't know if it has been so since the beginning00:00:30.253
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• or only since the revolution. Now the official name00:00:33.627
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• is Intermedia 3 and we use the subtitle "School of Conceptual Research".00:00:40.543
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• Before us they used the name "School of Conceptual Art"00:00:50.368
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• and, based on our experience and approach,00:00:56.489
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• this title implies a totalitarian attitude.00:01:00.825
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• I don't really like the idea of art as working with a concept.00:01:05.814
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• That is why it is the "School of Conceptual Research".00:01:10.971
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• I feel that the generally shared idea of conceptualism00:01:48.422
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• or conceptual art is based on a simple idea that00:01:51.341
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• conceptual art comes about through thinking.00:01:57.766
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• It is about thinking, the way the thinking of the artist00:02:00.437
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• represents itself. That is the art work.00:02:06.500
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• Historically, it is only partially true.00:02:12.183
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• It is the established style.00:02:18.345
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• But today, it is much more complicated.00:02:22.115
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• Conceptual approach is not merely about creating through thinking.00:02:26.549
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• You have to include other influences: individual history,00:02:31.708
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• intuition, and other important things.00:02:40.600
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• Here, we consider concept in terms of will.00:02:45.204
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• It is a directed will which brings things to life00:02:51.773
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• and gives them their shape or takes it away.00:02:57.542
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• Conceptual art in today's world is not an isolated category.00:03:00.628
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• That is the reason for the name "School of Conceptual Research".00:03:06.131
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• It is about the space where it is conceptually questioned -00:03:13.385
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• meaning synthetically questioned, tested.00:03:21.935
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• From my perspective of a teacher, the time of the questioning comes -00:03:27.639
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• in terms of the relationship between a teacher and a student -00:03:31.074
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• when the idea arrives and then you play with it.00:03:34.892
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• But the student is responsible for the final outcome.00:03:44.766
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• So in the meantime it is good for both to enjoy the process,00:03:50.459
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• to complicate it for the sake of the thing.00:03:59.203
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• But then there is the moment when I don't want to interfere any longer.00:04:01.949
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• Firstly, the reason is that I don't have the right to do so,00:04:06.121
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• I have to stop at some point because I have different experience,00:04:11.860
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• different views on what is being discussed with the student.00:04:16.037
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• So then it is time for the student's responsibility, egoism.00:04:18.902
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• He becomes solely responsible, it is his business.00:04:25.598
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• So that no one can say that it was somebody else who did it for him.00:04:30.145
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• I am here because I feel close to what Jiří Skála00:04:40.247
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• and Tomáš Vaněk are doing. It is similar to what I am doing.00:04:45.847
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• It is great that we deal and talk with each other as equals.00:04:53.651
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• I feel - how to put it - as if it were my home.00:05:02.909
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• I like that it is an open platform, you can work in any way,00:05:15.511
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• the discussion about it is important, you must think about it00:05:23.885
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• but it is also playful. - It is our second year here.00:05:35.760
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• We are still in the process of creating the right environment.00:05:43.172
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• It is still in the process of defining things.00:05:48.554
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• Our idea is very simple: to create an enviroment where things are shared,00:05:53.829
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• not one ruled by an authority. I refuse to assign tasks.00:06:00.334
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• We think that the individual involvement, interest, and thinking00:06:11.565
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• are important. Every semester, each student must come up with00:06:19.844
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• an individual plan. I give advice but we work00:06:23.139
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• with each student based on this plan.00:06:27.031
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• At the same time, we want to discuss things together -00:06:31.257
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• in the form of presentations. Students may even come with their private matters00:06:35.122
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• that are related to the life in the studio that are then discussed00:06:42.350
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• and commented on by all. There is nothing exceptional about it.00:06:49.072
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• I believe there are well-tested teaching strategies00:06:56.504
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• such as regular consultation hours, group discussions, individual discussions,00:07:02.686
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• or even attendance, desire to enjoy and make use of the space00:07:07.650
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• of the studio. All this is given. Apart from it, we look for ways00:07:17.391
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• in which we can fix it, I don't want to say to make it00:07:27.330
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• more fun, but do differently what we think is not working.00:07:30.936
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• Jiří, add something, please. - I got lost a bit. I'm sucking my finger.00:07:37.508
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• Yes, that's all right. No, I'm joking. - It doesn't matter.00:07:44.575
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• I only lend cameras.00:07:53.003

2komentáře “ATELIÉRY AVU: Ateliér intermediální tvorby III”

1. Ján Valík napsal09. led. 2012:
   

   Prva veta Tomáše..!! až na to, že za dvadsať rokov od 1989/90 do 2010 sa názov ateliéru menil bol tlak na to aby školy sa volali výstižne, typ: Malba, Kresba atď. …je to na dlhšie, ale v skratke na začiatku r. 90 mali ateliéry volnost v názve a potrebu byť presnejší, a TENTO ateliér znel: Škola kresby s konceptuálním zaměřením (resp. Ateliér kresby s koncept. zaměřením)…postupne systém to zjednodušoval, skracoval…nežiadúce bolo slovo KRESBA, keďže „kreslí“ sa na grafike, malbe, kresbe, restaurátori tiež kreslia, a „to nejde“ aby aj koncept mal v úvahe kresbu… Takže sa to redukovalo na Školu/Ateliér konceptuálních tendencí…, konceptuální tvrba je iba byrokratické zjednodušenie aby bola intermediální, monumentální a konceptuální…čo? „tvorba“…howgh

2. Ján Valík napsal09. led. 2012:
   

   Intermédiá 1, 2 a 3 sú ďalším krokom vlastne už len pod jedno slovo zhrnúť „tvorbu“ a tento proces je v podstate celospoločenské rozmnělnování o čo vlastne ide… Ide o to že nikto nevie vlastne nazvať vlastné pole aktivít, a vágné Intermédiá sú vlastne nevýstižné to na čom sa všetci „zhodneme“…sovo „vlastne“ je zámerne časté, keďže už to je najnejasnejšie o čo ide, ale stále cítíme, že niečo VLASTNE máme a tvoríme…(??)