Michal Moravčík
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- One of my last projects is Alexander The Hero, I made it for an exhibition00:00:23.623
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- in Make Up Gallery in Košice which has recently finished.00:00:31.304
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- In this project I was captured by the destiny of the iconic architecture00:00:35.916
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- of Vladimir Dedecek, which is right in our view at the moment -00:00:41.988
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- it is the building of Incheba. The initial motive was to look at the window00:00:48.305
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- that appeared there, I looked over its origin and I found out that00:00:52.858
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- it is the office of a businessman and deputy Alexander Rozin, so the title00:00:57.450
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- Alexander The Hero is related to this. It is an enormous intervention00:01:04.100
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- into the architecture, brutal affirmation of position within society.00:01:10.831
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- Look-out from inside was striking as well, which appeared in one of00:01:22.299
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- Superstar casting, so it was used on commercial level and additionally00:01:30.517
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- blessed with commercial broadcasting feature.00:01:35.831
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- I´m not interested to get into face-to-face conflict with Rozin, but I'm rather00:01:42.599
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- considering the audience having an opportunity to have a look out00:01:53.712
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- of his office. Actually, it is kind of guerilla strategy, I downloaded it00:02:02.821
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- from somebody who has taken a picture of it illegaly, so I forward the information00:02:13.557
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- and I don´t know where it will end up.00:02:19.060
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- I´ve got a set called DKP - tiny short-time objects, it contains objects00:02:27.858
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- like table, chairs, hangers. It is about being ironical - I produce furniture00:02:34.607
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- or a model of an institution referring to the architecture.00:02:41.996
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- In my work Cut Through the Emptiness I was dealing with an architecture of00:02:49.843
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- Slovak National Gallery - another iconic building of Vladimir Dedecek.00:02:55.002
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- So the model is an old blanket chest into which I put three drawers,00:03:07.734
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- representing a link - the spectator can pull out the drawer and see00:03:14.278
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- the emptiness, to relish the emptiness of space within the model.00:03:21.788
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- It is all an aesthetics of Do It Yourself.00:03:27.533
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- Another project was The Storage Space, I was concerned with memory model00:03:31.864
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- of one of the wings in Art Faculty in Drotarska street.00:03:36.565
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- My criticism was aimed at the stiffness of the institution I was able to00:03:43.208
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- perceive as an assistant. It was meant as a storage space of all the teachers00:03:48.544
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- and professors working there.00:03:53.825
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- Some people reproached me for my works having an aesthetic value,00:04:00.408
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- but my intention wasn´t to make an aesthetic object, it was just00:04:06.827
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- an encounter of politically motivated message with furniture.00:04:15.524
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- In my views the furniture represented a human being. The problem of00:04:22.855
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- aesthetics has its roots in things dealing with aesthetics during socialism.00:04:28.267
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- It started when my grandmother died and for the first time I was facing00:04:34.886
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- the quality of things left by her, and also facing what the new00:04:43.068
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- post-revolutionary era was bringing.00:04:46.327
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- Which Nationalism is Better? It was the essential question I asked myself00:04:49.032
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- at that time, from the perspective of politics, history and all we lived00:04:53.323
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- in 90´s and it is still present as a motif from the year 2000 up to now.00:05:01.205
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- I made a timeline into which we can intervene and erase bad moments of00:05:10.581
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- common history of Czech and Slovak people and the result of the project00:05:17.825
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- is the memorial of good years from the history of the state.00:05:26.071
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- In some interventions people erased Hitler and Stalin and others00:05:35.868
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- erased their year of birth or the year of an injury - so big history00:05:47.889
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- mixed with the personal history of an ordinary person.00:05:53.333
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- Why do I make art? Im interested in singularity of art - it is among00:06:05.745
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- various humanities, sciences and pseudo-sciences, but one can create00:06:14.840
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- new aesthetic structure or structure of knowledge and one can bring00:06:22.231
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- a new quality to people, one creates information which might have00:06:26.402
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- a further effect and unpredictable impact.00:06:30.799
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- Work of art is a record in certain time and space, the statements00:06:38.444
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- I release through art, it is a reaffirmation or a critical view into oneself and back.00:06:49.237
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- I perceive human as a being in process - we are changing same as00:07:04.049
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- the subjects we are processing, our paths are open and it might be clear00:07:13.288
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- only after one´s death. But I like the oddity of linking that brings00:07:28.762
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- a new quality - that is all.00:07:41.330
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