CJCH-2015 Pavla Sceranková
V objektech Pavly Scerankové se setkávají principy ready made a performance. Tyto plastiky se vyznačují estetickou autonomií, čistotou a mimo to se povětšinou váží ke konkrétnímu místu, mnohdy vybízejí diváky k akci a zapojení se do „děje“. A to i přes to, že výsledkem je často deformace předmětu. Sceranková se inspiruje a vychází ze všedních věcí, které se díky změně měřítka, materiálu, konstrukce apod. stávají zajímavými a dostávají se do nového kontextu.
- When one thinks about what sculpture is,00:00:14.185
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- there are of course a number of ways00:00:17.421
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- of how to look at it, but for me it is simply00:00:20.769
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- work with material in space and time.00:00:23.570
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- So I guess I can say: That's me.00:00:28.842
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- That I am a sculptress.00:00:34.758
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- The fact that it is for an exhibition00:00:44.431
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- is not so different for me, it is a form of presentation.00:00:50.406
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- One has these things, or thoughts, or interests, in one's head,00:00:57.230
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- but to give them some finished shape00:01:09.025
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- that is comprehensible, or interesting,00:01:12.721
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- requires a sacrifice or engagement.00:01:16.142
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- Without having a deadline00:01:21.151
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- it is more difficult to complete.00:01:26.178
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- My work is based on residual radiation00:01:37.948
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- emitted some 380,000 years after the Big Bang.00:01:42.161
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- I worked in co-operation with a scientist,00:01:46.561
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- astrophysicist Mr. Jungwirth from the Astronomical Institute00:01:52.141
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- of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.00:01:54.930
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- If we imagine the universe after the Big Bang,00:01:59.110
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- there was this hot matter, plasma, and the universe00:02:02.468
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- was shrouded in a kind of fog.00:02:05.693
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- When the matter cooled down00:02:08.630
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- the first atoms emerged and, simultaneously,00:02:13.898
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- as atoms are neutral, photons were liberated, set free.00:02:18.831
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- And the universe became transparent.00:02:26.048
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- So it is the moment when light separated from matter.00:02:30.897
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- It is not really possible to translate such a situation00:02:45.267
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- into some symbol.00:02:51.410
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- There I had run into trouble a little.00:02:56.082
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- It is so abstract, in such measures and magnitudes,00:03:01.073
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- that instead I attempted to show00:03:05.356
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- that prehistoric photons are here,00:03:10.070
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- and they can be measured.00:03:16.422
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- When Mr. Jungwirth described it to me,00:03:19.523
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- he said that in one cubic centimeter,00:03:23.464
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- that is, in one sugar cube,00:03:26.740
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- there are00:03:29.087
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- He used the example of a sugar cube00:03:31.907
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- so that one can imagine it better.00:03:33.881
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- I enjoyed working with this strange comparison00:03:36.414
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- which is slightly misleading because, after all,00:03:39.473
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- there are no photons in a sugar cube.00:03:43.802
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- But I have a feeling that thanks to this comparison00:03:46.267
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- it is an image one can better remember00:03:50.056
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- so we are going to have an installation of sugar cubes.00:03:54.280
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- Those will be special sugar cubes in which white sugar00:04:00.486
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- and cane sugar will be mixed in a ratio corresponding to00:04:03.510
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- the amount of photons in one cubic centimeter.00:04:07.903
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- The sugar cubes will be free to take.00:04:10.882
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- So this is an effort by me to spread this information00:04:15.089
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- further in a playful way.00:04:18.741
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- So during such an insignificant - compared with astrophysics -00:04:22.236
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- act as drinking coffee one can, in some form,00:04:26.688
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- remember this thing.00:04:29.796
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- The second level is to introduce00:04:35.917
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- not only the discovery, but also the discoverers.00:04:37.873
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- This is not Mr. Jungwirth,00:04:42.930
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- the discovery took place some fifty years ago.00:04:47.397
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- I want to show that without those people,00:04:49.836
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- the discoveries would not have been possible.00:04:52.102
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- Their presence and their research00:04:55.963
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- co-creates those phenomena.00:04:58.637
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- So I have created several objects,00:05:01.394
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- a table, a chair, a shirt.00:05:05.942
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- Those objects have their own existence as,00:05:08.670
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- let's say, sculptures, but an object,00:05:12.203
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- not an installation, but a solitary thing,00:05:16.969
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- is always somehow torn out out of some universe00:05:22.189
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- which may not exist, or to which we may have no access.00:05:25.802
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- When it is exhibited at a gallery,00:05:29.333
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- it is just as torn out as it is in my studio,00:05:31.763
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- in a storage, or anywhere else.00:05:36.557
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- So I don't present those objects in a gallery.00:05:38.145
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- Instead I exhibit photographs of those objects in space,00:05:42.817
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- that is, in space for which they were designed.00:05:46.242
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- In the meantime I had an exhibition00:05:53.909
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- which dealt more with research of perception,00:05:59.013
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- which is a parallel theme for me.00:06:03.383
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- I would like to join these two themes00:06:07.884
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- into one single exhibition because I think00:06:11.784
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- that the universe out there is very close to00:06:14.758
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- the universe in our head.00:06:19.390
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- That these two spaces, so to speak,00:06:21.566
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- are very much related.00:06:27.448
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- So this may be my next research.00:06:32.468