Poetický materializmus

• The title consists of two essential factors - poetics and materialism.00:00:02.824
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• The materialism isn´t related to dialectic materialism -00:00:07.042
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• just to prevent confusion, it is related to the idea of materialism00:00:16.166
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• as an original cultural form of relationship of an individual and nature.00:00:21.760
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• Poetics and poetic it has two parallels - one is based on00:00:38.303
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• original Greek verb, supposedly first verb poiesis meaning production.00:00:42.389
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• In the original form it is the production of words,00:00:51.114
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• but in later forms it is meant as production in general.00:00:53.928
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• Gérard Genette, the forefather of narratology, consider poetics00:00:57.212
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• to be the theory of theories, so it is not only about lyric poetry,00:01:03.688
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• or something of intimate character, but it is general -00:01:11.071
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• the theory of theories, theory of language etc.00:01:16.981
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• This is the sphere I´m interested in, I apply that to the great interest in00:01:19.213
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• material way of expression and quality of material, its capacities00:01:31.707
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• for last 15 years, mainly in the area of art objects production.00:01:37.233
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• That is the sphere this exhibition is dealing with.00:01:45.062
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• I was walking in interstellar space enthusiastic about the fact00:01:50.833
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• that I started out big adventurous pilgrimage,00:01:53.666
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• and that at its end I will find all the cosmic formulas,00:01:56.466
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• and I will shed a light on the mystery of space.00:02:00.484
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• The artists exposing at the exhibition are a sample,00:02:01.485
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• so the exhibition might be the same if taking place in South America,00:02:07.315
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• because of the existence of a trend, Im afraid to say, as a non-organized00:02:13.490
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• movement that is absolutely global.00:02:21.464
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• The is composed with the phenomenological intention.00:02:24.611
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• There is a transparent object, reflective object, or object of natural origin,00:02:32.746
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• there is a photography that is rather an object than photography.00:02:44.399
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• There is a moving or talking object, soft or hard object,00:02:48.957
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• object that is a construction, and object as a real functional construction etc.00:02:56.331
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• And with this phenomenology, or ethnography of contemporary object00:03:02.980
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• there is garden chair by Thonet brothers from the end of 19th century,00:03:07.436
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• which is one of the first chairs of Thonet brothers produced in Slovakia,00:03:14.789
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• that is important - it had been before the period the wood00:03:21.009
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• started to be shaped.00:03:23.867
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• When you look at it, you see both things - traditional, folk00:03:27.373
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• and at the same time it has striking constructivist structure.00:03:32.057
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• So it introduces by its distinct but silent beauty something00:03:37.643
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• that modern art formulates later in more pure form.00:03:43.930
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• As I have said I´m borrowing the term from literary theory,00:03:47.892
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• in which the poetic materialism starts with Walt Whitman.00:03:52.722
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• There is a particular poetry collection by Walt Whitman,00:03:56.209
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• titled Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman as a skilled printer00:03:59.347
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• wrote, designed, printed and distributed it by himself.00:04:06.313
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• The book was of unusual size, approximately of this size.00:04:14.182
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• First print run was about 100 copies, and his name was nowhere except00:04:18.106
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• the only verse in the book.00:04:23.898
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• The book brings an inconceivable view on every aspects00:04:26.750
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• of so-called bare life.00:04:36.081
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• Observation of nature, searching for God, not finding God, but finding the atom.00:04:42.686
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• And finding that we are sharing the atom, as it is in me and in you.00:04:46.739
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• So searching for democracy in nature - Whitman tries to apply it on various00:04:56.059
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• forms of life such as political, natural and intimate life -00:04:59.966
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• he questions heterosexuality and more others things.00:05:03.492
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• It was something that had never appeared in literature before.00:05:12.151
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• Based on these reasons, the book is lying on the chair,00:05:15.677
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• and one can read the most important poem - Song of Myself.00:05:19.238
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• I use purposely the Czech translation, as it is first edition00:05:26.749
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• in our countries, from 1956, translated by Jiří Kolář.00:05:35.384
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• So there is another linkage between our world.00:05:41.109
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• And that could be all.00:05:46.205

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