Corpus Alienum
Corpus alienum reaguje na našu socialistickú minulosť a náš súčasný postoj k nej. Kľúčovým objektom projektu je sadrový odliatok sochy Lenina, pochádzajúci z obdobia, keď v Pisztoryho paláci sídlilo Múzeum V. I. Lenina. Umelecký zásah spočíva v umiestnení reproduktorov dovnútra sochy a v jej oživení prostredníctvom kompozície vytvorenej zo zvukov manuálnej práce a dialógov dvoch robotníkov.
- Pisztory palace is specific for the historical and political changes00:00:17.466
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- symptomatically being inscribed in it, changes typical for this region,00:00:24.074
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- for instance, there was a seat of Hitler´s embassy during the Slovak State00:00:28.554
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- in Second World War, in 1950´s the museum of V.I. Lenin was established here.00:00:34.831
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- This statue was originally placed in palace interior by the main entrance.00:00:43.622
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- After the year 1989 the statue was removed and stored in the basement.00:00:56.975
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- We retrieved it, placed it on the courtyard and restored it as it was00:01:01.125
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- considerably damaged.00:01:06.843
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- In our project we work on the way the statue is made - it´s the plaster cast00:01:19.692
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- consisting of two parts hollow inside, and we worked with this hollow space,00:01:24.223
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- into which we inserted sound system. We let the horizontal seam bringing00:01:31.402
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- two parts into an assembly on the abdomen to be recognized,00:01:38.207
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- though originally it had been retouched. We let it there as a record00:01:43.387
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- of the surgery that have been done. The title Corpus Alienum00:01:49.376
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- is a medical term, it signifies the extraneous entity stuck in an organism.00:01:54.525
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- We recorded 25 minutes sound composition of the manual labour sounds,00:02:04.719
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- and dialogues of two workers, recording mainly the sounds from mines,00:02:10.507
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- constructions and factories.00:02:16.151
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- Strike here, higher, more to the right...00:02:38.333
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- The composition mainly imitates standard working bustle, but there are00:02:43.815
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- also some musical moments evoking Industrial Music having an abstract overlap.00:03:03.152
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- The composition has its dramaturgy, it isn´t just a random tangle,00:03:12.308
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- we can follow certain logic in it or even a narrative.00:03:19.352
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- The project Corpus Alienum responds to manner in which all the representative00:03:49.198
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- statues of the previous regime were treated after the revolution in 1989,00:03:55.382
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- they were removed or alternatively demolished and even today they are00:04:03.482
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- taken for a dormant thread, for a disturbing alien entity which might be00:04:10.311
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- the source of infection or functional disorder in the organism of society.00:04:16.736
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- We manifested this dormant thread by retrieving the statue and00:04:21.428
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- bringing it back to life with our intervention.00:04:30.551
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- I´ll come tomorrow.00:04:36.723