Who Is the Director?
40 umělců pro bývalou diskotéku Alfa. Instalace, objekty, malba, video, koncept, site specific ad.
- The Four Days in Motion festival00:00:11.006
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- has been taking place for nineteen years.00:00:13.550
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- This year it takes place at the same venue00:00:17.174
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- as the last year which doesn't make us very happy00:00:19.749
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- because our aim is to discover new venues00:00:24.093
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- and point out their history and contexts.00:00:29.052
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- But on the other hand this venue isn't bad at all,00:00:32.305
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- so we prepared another exhibition00:00:36.430
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- with a subheading "Who is the director".00:00:38.440
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- We try to look for our responsibility towards00:00:42.695
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- the one who's leading it here,00:00:45.256
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- whether it's us or politicians, inspectors or the nature.00:00:55.791
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- We tried to provide these explicit questions00:01:04.260
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- as a stepping stone for artists we approached.00:01:10.287
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- Of course we didn't find any answers,00:01:15.038
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- because that would be too simple.00:01:18.553
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- But interesting are all the various attitudes presented00:01:21.228
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- and that's exactly what we were hoping for.00:01:25.929
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- Palace u Stýblů is a very interesting venue for us00:01:31.694
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- because it is situated in the very centre of00:01:35.389
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- Prague at Wenceslas Square.00:01:38.897
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- It's a curious vacancy,00:01:41.070
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- an emptiness and at the same time00:01:44.820
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- the history is very interesting as it00:01:49.102
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- used to be a commercial centre built in the 1920s.00:01:51.496
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- At that time there was a law determining00:01:58.622
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- that the buildings' ground floors, first floors00:02:01.277
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- and basements must be designated for00:02:04.506
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- cultural and social purposes which means00:02:08.309
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- cafés, cinemas, music halls etc.00:02:10.148
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- In the 1980s there used to be00:02:14.909
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- the well-known discotheque Alfa00:02:18.117
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- and the best cinema in Prague.00:02:19.823
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- It had a wide screen and dolby stereo,00:02:22.448
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- it was one of the most frequented places.00:02:26.398
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- Shortly after the revolution it was the discotheque Alfa00:02:29.507
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- which used to be a phenomenal place00:02:32.003
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- of Prague's night life in those days.00:02:38.742
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- Since 1993 or 1994 the building has been abandoned.00:02:42.656
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- For example in Belgium,00:02:48.735
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- if a building is abandoned for more than two years,00:02:50.620
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- the owner has to pay a high penalty every year.00:02:54.199