Cyril Blažo
Cyril Blažo (1970) nikdy nebol ex-nihilátor, umelec tvoriaci od bieleho papiera. Aj v minulosti veľmi rád a často pracoval s nájdenou realitou, s jej privlastňovaním, posúvaním či odkláňaním. Reagoval situačne, imrovizoval, užíval (si) realitu, tvoriac akúsi vizuálnu obdobu slapsticku – oživenia či demontovania reality formou zdanlivo neškodného gagu či vtipu.
V posledných spoluprácach s Martinom Kochanom, niekedy aj samostatne, sa Cyril Blažo stáva objektom navzájom zdieľaných public-artových fotoperformancií na tému sochy v meste. Kochan s Blažom komentujú, obsadzujú sa do sôch, odkláňajú či napravujú ich (ne)zmysel, sami sa stávajú živými sochami.
Tieto akési „artist lectures“ pritom nie sú prvým Blažovým komentovaním verejného priestoru. Improvizačné schopnosti a duchampovskú senzibilitu Cyrila Blaža využil režisér-dokumentarista Jano Šebík v svojom filme Sochy!? z roku 1999. Tento asi štvorminútový film (dostupný na: http://vimeo.com/19742475) má dvojitú identitu. Je dokumentom, či skôr mockumentom o „umení“ a zároveň záznamom Šebíkom režírovanej sprievodcovskej performance Cyrila Blaža po „zvláštnych sochách“ Bratislavy. V skutočnosti sa dotýka vážnych tém: inštitucionality/inštitúcie umenia (čo?, kde?, za akých okolností?, koho odobrením? JE umenie), fenoménu ostalgie či problematiky sochy v meste – vlastne fenoménom, ktoré začnú v umení výraznejšie rezonovať až asi o dekádu neskôr.
Petra Hanáková
- So this is the statue of Koniarek by Bernolák - no, the other was around.00:00:18.932
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- Say it correctly - it is made by well-know artist from Trnava.00:00:24.997
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- So it is statue of Bernolák by Koniarek.00:00:28.740
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- So Cyril hung on the statue and I took picture of it.00:00:36.910
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- He used to be my teacher.00:00:42.035
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- There will be our 10th anniversary, in September.00:00:48.560
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- We have known each other for ten years.00:00:55.661
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- The title is The Statues, you can see my hanging on it,00:00:58.827
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- Martin Kochan took the photographs, but the ideas were mine.00:01:01.827
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- I had an idea as we walked around, so we spontaneously00:01:07.800
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- made it - without planning, Martin had a camera with himself.00:01:12.875
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- The idea came when I saw the finger of Bernolák,00:01:23.028
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- and I had jeans with belt loop, so I had an idea to hang.00:01:26.709
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- So idea comes when you have jeans and finger of Bernolák,00:01:34.848
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- and put things together, then you can put it off for a long time,00:01:39.869
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- finally you make it after three months or up to two years.00:01:45.256
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- When it cross my mind, I don´t have to make it immediately.00:01:52.569
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- The statues are persistent, you can make it later.00:01:56.502
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- I take photographs of countryside, and secluded places.00:02:01.136
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- For the statues - I made two works and now I keep doing it,00:02:07.147
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- as a series, it is not the case of necessity, but rather to complete the series.00:02:20.278
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- For instance, when I have an idea, things are coming to the mosaic,00:02:28.450
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- but not as one theme, but it just fits in the series.00:02:36.862
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- But it there is no particular point, just as going to zoo and00:02:46.079
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- throw the darts at animals, hitting an animal and traveling00:02:53.765
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- around the zoos in whole world, I could repeat that twice,00:03:03.293
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- gain success and it would spread... just as I could do something else00:03:05.401
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- as a series - finally everything is made in series on exhibitions.00:03:10.332
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- How do you take it, that people enjoy your work?00:03:15.925
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- that it is popular, and people like it on Facebook?00:03:18.970
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- It is just an advantage of social networks,00:03:23.777
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- if I had been sending it five years ago by e-mail...00:03:26.147
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- I wouldn´t even have felt like doing that.00:03:29.317
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- Today it is like that, any article is shared.00:03:31.470
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- That´s the modern age., isn´t it?00:03:38.394
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- Let´s go this way by the promenade, and then we´ll see.00:03:46.178
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- I would like to say something about the artwork and art and such terms,00:03:55.939
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- it is rather literature in a sense, like a poet already have words00:04:02.158
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- and needs not to compose it, same there are already ready-made00:04:08.694
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- statues and also there is me, so you just connect things00:04:12.786
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- already existing - so the this artwork is closer to literature,00:04:16.463
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- than to any handcraft, get it?00:04:26.598
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- Only composing and assembling, no need to construct or draw anything.00:04:29.657
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- So this is what is all about.00:04:38.743
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- But I cannot say it generally, it is only a part of our work,00:04:40.929
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- Martin and me we also make classical drawings or statues,00:04:52.169
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- so this report is only about a cut-out of our work.00:05:01.425
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- Let´s see this.00:05:09.791
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- Enough theories, let´s see if I can squeeze in this slit.00:05:18.834
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- To put your leg in it?00:05:24.140
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- No, the whole body...00:05:26.638
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- Maybe you could put one leg there and another here.00:05:28.345
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- Here is my mobile, and you can go there.00:05:31.401
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- So this was the idea impossible to realize.00:05:47.229
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- Why?00:05:50.799
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- I thought you want to sit like on the horse.00:05:53.585
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- I was supposed to be an illustrator,00:06:05.001
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- I make art just like ...00:06:07.344
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- hobby00:06:09.898
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- not hobby, but by accident or something like that.00:06:12.591
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- The revolution came ... if Communist were still here,00:06:18.013
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- I could work as illustrator, you see?00:06:26.022
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- Do you think the politics has changed your life?00:06:28.433
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- Maybe not, we cannot say that, it is only "if" for the history.00:06:31.669
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- But originally I was going to be an illustrator,00:06:35.541
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- So you would be sitting at the table and ...?00:06:38.662
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- No, I work with books indirectly now,00:06:43.065
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- it is just like already set, I´m supposed to be an illustrator,00:06:47.942
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- I´m not, but still I work with books,00:06:50.720
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- but not as an illustrator, you see?00:06:52.595
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- I want to avoid it, but I can´t avoid it anyway.00:06:55.257
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- So I don´t make illustrations, but rather spoil it.00:06:58.188
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- So it is as if you can´t avoid it, even if you think avoiding it.00:07:01.658
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- Damn it! Again closed!00:07:08.618
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- Do you have it?00:07:17.373
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- We do not map this ruins, but when we are in Trnava...00:07:21.830
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- it may not exist when we will come other time.00:07:27.465
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- So that is why we are here, it´s not our main interest.00:07:32.108
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- What?00:07:41.581
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- Is there a sense to make a monument today?00:07:43.395
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- The monument - it is the only thing that will remain.00:07:46.326
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- We were discussing that all the papers will fall apart.00:07:52.892
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- So the plastic bottles and monuments will remain.00:07:55.950
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- Monuments are made of bronze ...00:08:00.641
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- So as a culture... for archeologist it is...00:08:02.388
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- Is it not a worn out format today?00:08:12.937
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- Not at all.00:08:17.648
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- Grún says in his lecture that there is nothing more invisible than monument.00:08:19.723
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- But we lack big events, start a war and there will be monuments.00:08:28.494
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- There is no event to make a monument for...00:08:32.306
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- people only go shopping, can you make a monument for shopping?00:08:37.229
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- So we are going to get under the overpass.00:08:42.783
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- I don´t know whether we are able to get there,00:08:59.436
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- but I´m tempted to see what is there.00:09:02.223
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- Jana, come on!00:09:19.330
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- Good space, nobody here ...00:09:22.671
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- This is one of so called non-spaces, isn´t it?00:09:26.789
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- And the smokestack at the back ...00:09:31.415
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- If we had a table here, we could play chess.00:09:35.103
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- With Duchamp?00:09:38.385
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- It is all overgrown in here.00:09:44.854
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- I would love it covered with snow.00:09:46.857
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- But I could slip there and fall into the hole.00:09:50.093
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- But it was worth seeing, wasn´t it?00:09:54.717
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- It is kind of space I will see once and never again.00:09:58.053
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- Unless I would like to record it, but there is nothing,00:10:04.286
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- maybe the smokestack...00:10:08.620
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- I have been here, and never will never again00:10:11.405
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- The tours of the town, I do it as pastime,00:10:19.616
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- and to take some pictures, but there is nothing here.00:10:22.461
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- But it is an interesting experience.00:10:38.265
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- Have you been here before, Martin?00:10:46.536
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- So don´t grumble.00:10:50.757
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- This is the wall to get your head bitten off.00:10:53.597
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- You put your head and the dog bites it off.00:10:57.652
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- This is the pure avant-garde...00:11:00.905
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- So you can make it.00:11:06.864
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- Wait!00:11:09.715
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- There is a link to video on Vimeo made by Jano Šebík.00:11:11.612
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- It is the end of 90´s, Im in it, so people can see it.00:11:19.375
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- How was it made?00:11:24.775
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- He had an idea, we were walking around Bratislava,00:11:28.165
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- searching for statues, but not real statues, it was mystification.00:11:35.399
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- As a document about statues, which were not really statues,00:11:41.489
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- but some mechanisms or devices.00:11:47.297
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- There is always something new, that you haven´t expected.00:11:50.616
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- I have seen both housing estates and there is nothing more in Trnava,00:11:56.887
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- And suddenly - who would say there is s Statue of Liberty?00:12:01.875
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- Now Martin will show us his discovery.00:12:06.056
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- I usually do stolen things, even photograph is something00:12:08.975
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- you don´t have to create in reality, you take a photo.00:12:38.429
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- Collages and photographs and stage-managed installations -00:12:45.276
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- I don´t create anything, there is no time for it,00:12:50.396
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- or I might have time, but spending time in atelier and working,00:12:57.444
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- I wouldn´t be able to be on such a trip like today.00:13:07.033
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- I would miss it, and there is no unlimited time available.00:13:10.541
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- You knooow...00:13:16.686
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- People should straighten up more, that´s essential.00:13:24.466
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- What are you drinking?00:13:29.221
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- Mineral water00:13:30.960
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- This was a good sketch.00:13:35.860
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- Finally we star in a film.00:13:39.144
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- This is like a TV play setting in snack bar in Trnava.00:13:41.278