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- Furcianske Tvorivé Letokruhy (Creative Rings)00:00:00.000
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- A small group has been created and united in a short time.00:00:02.855
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- Headed by Ludka and Marianka creative ideas have become true in our group.00:00:08.836
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- So our logo has been made - the results of our work we present on vernissage,00:00:18.375
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- and so we are gaining publicity. We are developing intergenerational00:00:26.727
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- relationships with students in Furca, looking forward to cooperation .00:00:31.556
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- We presented our annual work on vernissage opened 13th November00:00:36.807
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- in new space in Furca. In this manner we would like to raise public awareness00:00:42.519
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- of our work to let them know that we work on intergenerational relationships00:00:54.072
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- between seniors and young people.00:00:59.711
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- My name is Ludmila Hornáková, I studied New Media in Bratislava,00:01:02.955
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- for a year and half I´ve been working on community art project which00:01:11.833
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- deals with interpersonal relationships across generations and00:01:20.102
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- from the perspective of senior people and how are they perceived by others.00:01:25.566
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- There are four types of works of art dealing with inner life of seniors,00:01:34.187
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- then there is direct communication and action with the younger generation00:01:45.187
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- in the forms of exploration in society. Next there are some actions00:01:54.428
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- that I do directly in the public space aimed at exploring people´s view00:02:03.764
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- on the other generation. It enables people to express - they can express00:02:11.230
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- indirectly what they would never say.00:02:20.556
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- So it goes this way: hallway, kitchen, bedroom, clothes closet, living room00:02:27.514
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- and public space which is not outside as it´s too cold. In the hallway00:02:32.300
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- there is an action Bellboy, a luggage porter, in which I was dressed up00:02:41.591
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- as a porter approaching people on the street in order to take their bag,00:02:47.118
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- take out the dog or other things. They were willing to trust me and00:02:52.190
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- and share the moment until we came to their door. Another action00:03:00.469
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- is slippers party, I asked the students of secondary art school whether00:03:05.192
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- they want to participate in this action. They built up communication00:03:12.915
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- with seniors through animation which was in form of slippers.00:03:21.269
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- Another action I participated in was about how to write a text message,00:03:28.416
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- so I came up with an idea that I forgot my glasses and I urgently needed00:03:35.943
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- to send a text message. So I addressed young men and women -00:03:44.058
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- they were helpful, but it also happened that one young man asked me00:03:53.904
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- for an euro to buy cigarettes after helping me. I cannot say that00:04:00.370
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- young people are unwilling to help older people. But it really depends on00:04:08.579
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- how do seniors treat youngsters.00:04:17.534
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- In the kitchen or dining room there is the sound record and photographs00:04:21.034
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- which deal with an ordinary object - a mug seniors were supposed to bring00:04:31.425
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- to the party. Everyone was asked to say something about the mug00:04:39.830
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- and why did they choose this particular mug. It was aimed at relationships00:04:46.210
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- in the family. I randomly found out that most of the cups and mugs00:04:52.237
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- are related to their grandchildren, it was a nice surprise to me.00:04:59.968
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- Then there is clothes closet in which we were collecting information for00:05:07.505
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- the journal The Rings, it dealt with fashion as it was interesting for seniors,00:05:12.316
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- they wanted to know how do youngsters respond to it. So we dressed up00:05:17.561
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- some were willing to wear a wig or something strange, some were casual.00:05:22.702
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- I wanted the seniors to include part of themselves into the flat and00:05:46.060
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- part of objects from their household, e.g. for the bedroom I considered00:05:52.603
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- one woman started to live in Furca with boxboard instead of furniture.00:05:55.332
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- So we used boxboard, everyone brought an object for the bed to make it00:06:02.636
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- compact and I took a detailed picture of a flat to interconnect it and00:06:09.839
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- to make them feel present in the room and find a part of themselves in.00:06:16.938
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- There are also some funny remarks regarding personal life, from an ironic perspective.00:06:24.451
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- Im very glad as I enjoyed much of that here and Im happy for this perspective.00:06:30.166
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- In this room there is a workroom with all the records from actions, trips,00:06:37.812
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- and exhibitions. Here are the maps of the flats and rooms with lamps00:06:47.376
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- made by seniors called In the Light of Home, reflecting the relationships00:07:00.203
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- so they were choosing photographs changed into the lamps representing00:07:07.478
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- the light of their life.00:07:14.830
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- The photographs on the lamp come from my family and I was saying00:07:17.105
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- that the young generation we are working with substitutes our far away00:07:24.098
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- grandchildren, because my three granddaughters are in England.00:07:32.240
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- They gave me a T-shirt with a picture "We love you" , so it is also about00:07:34.996
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- situation in our family, not only among the others and that is important.00:07:46.110
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- Then there is a collection called In Every Household. For two months00:07:55.138
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- I was searching for senior people using their creativity in everyday life,00:07:59.505
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- or they bring working activities home or they are collectors of particular things,00:08:06.680
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- e.g. non material collections, simple or flicking collections, different kinds00:08:16.160
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- of atypical things one wouldn´t expect in the household or creativity00:08:25.197
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- and aesthetic work which one wouldn´t expect in daily life neither.00:08:30.473
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- There is Furciancke haiku on this side, which is short poetry inserted into00:08:35.441
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- the public journal section Purchase - Sale, among these adverts we put00:08:46.684
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- short poems containing remarks about daily life issues, social feedback and00:08:56.567
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- social conditions and other topics.00:09:03.288
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- At the back there are three projects, one is ballon installation00:09:09.858
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- called I breathe for You - it was about our fast-moving times and the goal00:09:19.252
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- was to make people stop in time, we were blowing balloons up and00:09:24.091
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- children and adults were stopping and coming by as we addressed them.00:09:33.034
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- It is needed to say that this project is supported by Spots in media,00:09:38.707
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- and it is funded by Ministry of Culture.00:09:48.944