Cena Oskára Čepana 2012: Oto Hudec
Oto Hudec (1981) sleduje hranicu medzi umením – reprezentáciou krásy a remeselnej zručnosti – a aktívnym politickým životom. Jeho tvorba kladie viac otázok, ako núka odpovedí; jej zámerom nie je motivovať za každú cenu k činu, ale k zamysleniu sa. V mnohých prípadoch skúma témy, ktoré čerpá z iných kontinentov a komunít so svojskými zvykmi, odlišným jazykom a politickou štruktúrou. Aktívne sa tiež venuje práci s ľudskou pamäťou, dokumentujúc osobnejším prístupom život konkrétnej osoby a jej vzťah k minulosti.
- Well, I tried to put together two different world.00:00:12.833
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- One is more political, the other is more poetic.00:00:17.600
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- In other words, one is more activistic,00:00:20.645
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- the other one is visual.00:00:24.308
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- I always choose a theme closely connected to me.00:00:28.127
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- I travelled a lot, I spent some time abroad.00:00:33.992
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- That´s why my themes are more international.00:00:37.749
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- I mainly use video.00:00:41.158
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- However, I also draw, paint, or use sculptural technique.00:00:43.696
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- I dealt with immigration for a long time because00:00:55.776
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- I felt like an immigrant, too.00:00:58.862
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- I lived three years in Portugal and one year in the USA.00:01:02.723
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- In Portugal there are many immigrants00:01:07.465
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- from the former Portuguese colonies.00:01:11.444
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- There are people from Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola and etc.00:01:13.931
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- The thing I was interested in most00:01:19.360
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- was their journey from Africa to Europe.00:01:23.081
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- This journey often has a tragic ending.00:01:31.985
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- One of my works was a boat00:01:34.954
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- by which immigrants intend to get to Europe.00:01:37.785
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- They often do not survive the journey.00:01:42.573
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- I made a boat with wooden boxes used for fruits.00:01:46.351
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- Above the boat, I placed a parachute to save them,00:01:53.319
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- however, it is not possible to save them like this.00:02:00.411
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- It is a utopy.00:02:03.309
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- I focus on these themes00:02:09.039
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- because I tend to solve my own feeling of responsibility.00:02:12.713
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- The way we live nowadays, the products we buy,00:02:14.782
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- all this influences life in the opposite corner of the world.00:02:20.195
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- I feel to be responsible for the problems of immigrants.00:02:28.840
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- Last time I dealt with the theme of chinese workers.00:02:35.181
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- In future I will deal more with the theme of environment.00:02:39.245
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- It is something, which is boundless.00:02:44.605
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- Another piece I am working on00:02:48.797
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- is related to the environment.00:02:52.242
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- When I was in America, I like the trucks.00:02:55.206
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- I like what they look like, they symbolize America.00:03:00.037
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- However, they aren´t ecological.00:03:06.056
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- They often go empty.00:03:10.137
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- I made posters, I distributed them together with tree seeds.00:03:16.222
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- I told them to plant the seeds behind on the trucks,00:03:20.525
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- when they grow up, they could not go anywhere.00:03:29.353