Pavla Sceranková

• OLD LIGHT IN THE GALAXIES DEPARTMENT Fait Gallery, Brno, 2014 curator Jan Zálešák00:00:19.682
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• When talking to Bruno Jungwiert from the Galaxies Department00:00:22.053
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• two important themes took shape. First, during the collision of galaxies two stars never collided,00:00:27.279
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• in fact it is a collision without contact.00:00:38.802
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• The entire groupement in the galaxy changes, a new galaxy is born, which has a different rotation, a different constellation00:00:40.820
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• and different gravitational relations.00:00:53.687
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• The gases collide, stars are formed, this is one of the few processes today00:00:56.859
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• that still contribute to the formation of stars.00:01:04.415
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• But there is no physical contact of two stars.00:01:07.469
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• That was one theme and the second one is related to the fact that from our point of view00:01:12.158
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• it may seem a completely static thing because the entire process lasted several hundred million years,00:01:20.120
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• but when we accelerate this process on the computer, which I also used in the exhibition,00:01:26.327
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• then it looks as a really fast collision of two objects.00:01:33.707
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• But it is just due to the speed of several hundred years per hour.00:01:39.208
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• Finally, I decided to make six rotating constructions00:01:44.331
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• and attach one half of a porcelain object to the end of each rotating arm.00:01:50.561
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• and in one constellation, in the rectangular one, all the porcelain bits meet,00:02:00.108
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• and so one china service is completed.00:02:11.426
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• So there´s a system which is in motion,00:02:14.226
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• the visitor sets it in motion and the system has two positions -00:02:20.148
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• in the first one the objects are in some kind of unity, both halves come together,00:02:28.402
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• the second one is completely different, the individual parts are detached.00:02:35.324
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• So for me this corresponded to the fact that the collision of galaxies causes a change of constellation00:02:43.180
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• of the elements.00:02:50.908
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• I find it fascinating, in fact we live on some kind of a sphere.00:02:54.836
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• Sometimes I just try to imagine this huge globe of ours.00:03:00.055
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• And on it all those tiny invisible things...00:03:05.648
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• At school teachers should stress more that it really is a globe.00:03:08.475
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• You know, we really look at it more as a 2D image..00:03:14.851
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• You often work with perspective, don´t you? But also with the entry of the subject interacting with the viewer,00:03:21.384
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• the viewer doesn´t have to look, I don´t want to say the things are empty, but they´re some kind of potential energy..00:03:32.701
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• As we said, although they´re sculptures or objects,00:03:43.340
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• they´re interesting due to the tension between them and some kind of potential action.00:03:47.062
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• I feel that in a way it´s even closer to my way of thinking,00:03:53.287
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• you must try to find what is the phenomenon, the character or the essence which makes it what it is.00:04:00.110
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• But this is what I do when I work normally, I mustn´t think about the physical things.00:04:13.084
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• I´M GOING00:04:26.535
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• In the installation I aimed at something I cannot really phrase.00:05:20.717
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• WOMAN ON THE MOON GHMP: Staroměstská radnice00:05:28.567
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• The main character of the exhibition is the woman from the swimming pool,00:05:30.586
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• I knew she had to be strong, her body, her space suit was something that protected her,00:05:33.250
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• but at the same time restricted her,00:05:45.082
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• weighed upon her.00:05:47.155
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• And the space.. this is what I suggest, this is my model of space.. I try to emphasize some aspects,00:05:49.833
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• which perhaps are not emphasized very often.00:06:05.317
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• There´s a ball of wool and knitting needles00:06:12.938
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• and when someone catches it and starts knitting00:06:16.373
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• so by knitting something is generated.00:06:19.487
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• For me the knitting is really one of the most accurate parallels of the cosmic actions.00:06:25.604
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• For me, activities that we do are there, perhaps we could find other images, matters are rearranged, reordered,00:06:36.139
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• One can start unravelling there, or winding up, and at the same time the present energy is important,00:06:51.439
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• because otherwise they are only some kind of knitted scarfs with knitting needles.00:07:01.635
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• UP00:07:08.594
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• These are only odds and ends, I found these at my grandfather´s home,00:07:14.466
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• I still haven´t finished them. I found these things when we were clearing his flat,00:07:18.699
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• after he and granny had died a couple of years ago.00:07:31.309
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• In their flat I came across things that they kept in a glass china closet,00:07:35.778
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• and we were allowed to look at them only with grandpa or grandma on Sundays after lunch,00:07:42.700
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• all these things seemed to be so precious, and suddenly when my grandparents died,00:07:51.700
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• there were so many things left, we thought we had to throw most of them away.00:07:57.405
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• But then I decided - no, we had to keep some of the things.00:08:03.178
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• So soon I had them all and I knew I would handle them00:08:09.533
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• in a different way than my grandparents would imagine,00:08:13.725
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• but thanks to my intervention these things will perhaps continue living, they´ll get a new life.00:08:17.867
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• This is a film I edited, it´s called Klatov, I used films shot by my grandfather,00:09:04.946
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• I think it was in 1957 and he used Super 8 mm films.00:09:14.876
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• I found this material also only when we were clearing out their flat,00:09:21.805
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• and I had it digitalized, and when I saw the pictures for the first time I was so sad I couldn´t speak to grandpa anymore,00:09:27.840
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• I was sorry I didn´t really know him well, do you understand what I mean?00:09:45.886
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• Boxing00:09:49.093
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• This is my thesis which helped me to make clear the theme I´m interested in.00:10:09.699
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• The theme was related to memory, but memory in the form of a special model of observation.00:10:16.892
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• The reminiscence in memory is presented as some kind of a record of observation00:10:28.059
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• which has a special character.00:10:37.775
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• I was fascinated by the fact that recollections change the physical appearance of the real objects.00:10:40.607
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• Visiting home00:10:52.055
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• And the circumstances and their form, that was the game or some kind of fear,00:10:53.174
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• that in fact change the physical form of the object, I mean literally.00:11:02.060
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• That´s how I started, in a scientific way, reconstructing the image of a recollection.00:11:06.696
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• But I really only tried to recall the way I remember a thing,00:11:15.584
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• to free myself from what the thing looks like and then make it.00:11:20.861
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• The Observatory was an interesting experience about having a dream.00:11:44.857
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• Report from neocortex - Observatory00:11:52.720
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• I´d never worked with dreams but this one so weird that had to return to it.00:11:53.721
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• I felt I had to deal with it.00:12:00.222
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• The title is Report from neocortex, because neocortex is a part of the human brain,00:12:05.854
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• and it was some kind of report from my brain, my own brain, which is an essential part of me,00:12:13.457
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• which I don´t understand, I don´t understand what it really wants to tell me...00:12:19.815
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• and that´s strange, isn´t it? ... the fact that we have all those relations with other parts of us inside ourselves.00:12:23.738
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• Go away. Come back.00:12:35.135
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• It was something that could no longer be described, something beyond the boundary.00:13:26.729
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• I said there, that if you could describe all the art objects, you wouldn´t have to make them.00:13:34.595
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• For me this was an illustration of the theory of perception.00:13:48.462
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• At that time, just after my dissertation, I suffered from splitting headaches.00:13:55.764
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• I thought that something must have gone wrong in my head, it was just too much for me,00:14:01.419
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• I thought that all that thinking had damaged some channels in my head.00:14:08.096
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• So then, after this experience, I made those heads.00:14:20.529
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• The alarm-clock-head is an illustration of the headache.00:14:27.198
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• The mirror head is an accurate illustration of the sensation that without the present awareness00:14:31.381
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• it is just a closed, hollow shell00:14:41.802
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• and only the present human being endows it with an image.00:14:45.885
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• It is also broken to show that it is not that significant.00:14:51.483
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• Moving out. Moving in.00:14:56.807
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• Finally, we feel that perception creates images, in a way it´s logical, visual experience is pictorial,00:15:31.439
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• but I wanted to claim that they are more spaces, and furthermore that perception has to be seen as00:15:42.132
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• a system of spatiotemporal situations rather than what our brain processes, segments of a viewing field.00:15:57.600
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• In some aspects it seems to be a banal motif,00:16:19.670
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• but through this I also tried to explain my sculptural approach,00:16:23.115
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• and what art means to me.00:16:34.902
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• When reading philosophical and psychological texts, or texts on neurobiology,00:16:39.645
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• I always came to a point, when it started to be really interesting,00:16:49.016
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• but at the same time it was said that the particular branch of science00:16:56.323
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• doesn´t dispose of means to continue with the research.00:17:00.655
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• This always happened at the moment when the apparatus could no longer study the object,00:17:03.884
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• it´s all about the experience which is non-communicable,00:17:15.895
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• the apparatus is able to detect precisely which neurons are active,00:17:20.648
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• or which areas are active when I feel something, but the feeling cannot be detected.00:17:27.106
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• Different branches of science have reached the same point from different directions,00:17:34.966
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• and there they lose the opportunity to continue their research in order to remain exact sciences.00:17:41.061
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• And I suddenly felt that this way they defined precisely the domain of art.00:17:45.829
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• Of course it´s not an easily definable domain, things fade into one another,00:17:50.795
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• but in a sense we work routinely and subconsciously, more or less, with this field and with these means.00:17:55.662

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