Pavla Sceranková
Asi každý zná ze školy premianty – spolužáky, kteří měli vždycky samé jedničky nebo nanejvýš dvojky. Takovou jedničkářkou je v kontextu českého a slovenského umění určitě Pavla Sceranková (1980) – a to bez ironie nebo despektu, jemuž jsou školní premianti ze strany svého okolí zpravidla vystaveni. Sceranková prostě kontinuálně podává výkony na výbornou, nebo přinejmenším velmi dobrou. V její tvorbě se opakuje moment humoru, hravosti, překvapení, tajemství. Přesto bychom neřekli, že je iracionální nebo čistě intuitivní. Její realizace vyžadují promyšlenou přípravu, jedině tak je možné uskutečnit „trikové“ efekty, které matou diváka.
Od videosoch nebo fotoperformací, v nichž ústřední roli hrálo vlastní tělo umělkyně (Sáčkování; Krabicování), přes pohyblivé objekty, s nimiž může různou měrou interagovat i divák (Was ist das; Up! no.2; Karavan lásky) nebo objekty pracující s optickými efekty a hrou pohledů (Zakázaná socha; 1400 wattů), až k artefaktům, které jsou příliš křehké pro fyzický dotyk (např. cyklus Návštěva doma; Prchající jelen) a jejich pohyb je pouze mentální – odehrávající se v naší hlavě. V celé této řadě se projevuje princip konstrukce, dekonstrukce, rekonstrukce. Nejde ale jen o chladný kalkul – i to, co je zdánlivě čistě mechanické, bývá podbarveno emocemi (Jdi pryč. Vrať se) nebo dokonce vlastními vzpomínkami umělkyně.
Nenápadný, avšak velmi podstatný je také zvuk, jako součást umělecké práce Pavly Scerankové. Ve videosochách je původní zvuk téměř rušivým elementem, který ale pomáhá vnímat dílo bezprostředně a videím zajišťuje autenticitu (Parkovací smyčka; Vystěhování. Nastěhování). Jindy zase hudební složka ozvláštňuje pohyblivý obraz natolik, že si nejsme jisti, co je důležitější, zda se vlastně nejedná o hudební klip (Viděno vzduchem, Kapusta, Klatov).
V poslední době se dá říct, že je tvorba Scerankové více literární – posunula se od doslovného provedení „kouzelných“ fyzikálních jevů (Vzduchoplno, 2000) k metaforám procesů na kosmické úrovni (Žena na měsíci, Kolize galaxií). Přitom je zde příznačné, že velká, univerzální témata jsou propojena s obyčejným a utilitárním (pletení) nebo lokálním (malovaná keramika a porcelán).
S tvorbou Scerankové se často spojuje adjektivum „křehký“. Křehkost je ale v případě této umělkyně jen jednou stranou mince – nejenom , že samotné, na první pohled fragilní artefakty prokazují překvapivou míru odolnosti a trvanlivosti při manipulaci, ale je tu i odhodlání a myšlenková pevnost, s níž Sceranková suverénně postupuje kupředu k dalším „jedničkám“.
Tereza Jindrová
- 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