Galerie INI

• The Ini project was founded in 2011 as a civic association00:00:16.012
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• and from the very start it involved the UMA: you make art project,00:00:20.772
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• an educational project that contextualizes and presents00:00:28.059
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• contemporary art and the alternative scene to the public,00:00:33.197
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• and then in the following years it was joined by two other projects,00:00:37.456
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• one being the Věra Jirousová award for starting and established critics of visual art,00:00:46.737
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• which itself is a wider project with an accompanying programme and its own strategy,00:00:53.754
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• and a studio space rather than a gallery space where we are sitting right now,00:00:59.867
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• and these three projects have their own goals00:01:08.272
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• but in some ways compliment each other.00:01:13.172
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• The actual space was opened in 201300:01:25.871
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• with a project by Aleš Čermák named Notes for women,00:01:32.427
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• and since this first project in this space we have been trying to think00:01:36.286
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• about a more processual side of the artistic operation,00:01:43.882
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• and because this space here in Orco in Bubenská00:01:47.325
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• is a studio, not a gallery, to use it in such way.00:01:52.166
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• Most of the time it works as a small, two months long residency00:02:01.008
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• and during this time the artist can use this space00:02:07.939
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• and most of the time three or four meetings take place00:02:11.881
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• during which something is prepared.00:02:14.955
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• It could be a publication, a film or even some experimental formats00:02:17.653
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• ranging from performative lectures and pop up exhibitions, installations00:02:23.757
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• to workshops and more participative events,00:02:29.910
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• and for us it is not only the actual preparation that is important00:02:36.489
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• but also the effect of what follows, what it brings,00:02:41.196
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• because a number of the artists used the space to prepare a project that followed later,00:02:46.352
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• for example Roman Štětina cut here his movie00:02:53.357
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• presented in the final of the Jindřich Chalupecký award,00:02:56.765
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• and while cutting this he actually let us peek00:03:00.873
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• into the way he works, thinks,00:03:07.765
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• and this way he divided the project into some sort of phases.00:03:11.229
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• Václav Magid did performative lectures here00:03:46.346
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• that should lead to a catalogue or other publications.00:03:49.963
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• Jiří Skála used the space in cooperation with Tomáš Uhnák00:03:59.169
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• for a research on the topic of precarised society or social classes00:04:05.165
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• and leisure time in the current economical and political situation00:04:12.444
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• and at the end they presented the outcome00:04:18.289
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• and at the same time it can be a start of further research in this field,00:04:21.306
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• so it is not only to actually provide space for creation of these things that is important to us00:04:27.085
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• but we would also ideally like to map it further,00:04:33.457
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• see how they continue and what their outcome is somewhere else.00:04:36.053
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• All these three projects are run by Anežka and me00:04:41.844
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• but we also collaborate with Klára Adamcová,00:04:46.294
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• the co-founder of INI who contributes to the projects as well.00:04:49.829
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• Anežka mostly takes care of the award and UMA,00:04:54.536
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• and I take care of the space, the gallery part,00:05:01.243
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• but we are basically a team that takes cares of all the projects,00:05:08.272
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• but as for the Věra Jirousová award,00:05:13.000
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• it is very important for us to invite a wider artistic and even non-artistic world.00:05:15.777
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• Thanks to the jury not only for coming here00:05:23.922
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• but also for making the decision,00:05:28.128
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• thank you all so much for coming to the ceremony of the second edition00:05:29.835
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• of the Věra Jirousová award, the award for young and established art critics.00:05:37.971
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• The Věra Jirousová award was conceived as firstly the actual competition for the younger category,00:05:41.470
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• that people apply to themselves and send one particular text,00:05:49.482
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• and the older category, the established one,00:05:54.826
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• where the people are nominated for their activities00:05:58.585
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• and the winner is selected in both cases by a jury00:06:03.632
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• consisting of both artists and critics.00:06:06.856
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• But also, because the younger category is also involved,00:06:10.191
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• it was also defined since the very beginning that waking up of the field00:06:14.587
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• will not happen on its own and just through the award,00:06:19.586
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• that it is interesting to also organize workshops,00:06:21.676
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• discussions, panel discussions about a certain topic,00:06:25.460
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• which again very often takes place here at Ini.00:06:31.555
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• Because the main thing we should talk about are fields that are somehow connected...00:06:37.908
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• One of the exhibitions presented another of our projects called UMA: you make art00:06:43.335
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• which focuses on mediating contemporary art,00:06:50.452
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• and currently we work mainly on audioguides under the name of UMA art guide00:06:55.456
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• that we record regularly on the occasion of art openings for every exhibition00:07:03.245
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• at smaller independent galleries in Prague, Brno and Ustí nad Labem at the moment.00:07:10.062
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• and we are slowly building an archive of these interviews00:07:17.321
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• with artists and curators of the exhibitions,00:07:21.773
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• but at the same time we always try to pose questions00:07:23.864
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• that could be interesting even for someone00:07:27.474
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• who does not really know the context of the artist’s work00:07:31.459
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• and these audioguides could help him understand contemporary art.00:07:35.501
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• The Agent exhibition at Fotograf gallery00:07:45.158
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• is a result of collaboration of four UMPRUM students.00:07:47.775
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• Eva Rybářová, Adam Havelka a Matěj Pavlík study at Photography00:07:50.087
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• and Jan Kovaříček studies at School of Architecture III.00:07:54.086
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• Together they answer questions about their individual roles at the exhibition00:07:57.384
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• or connection between architecture and video.00:08:02.552
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• UMA was the first of the projects00:08:05.322
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• and it was based on an informal way of education00:08:08.886
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• or some alternative approach to communicating of contemporary art00:08:12.514
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• and although the other two projects also have their own goals,00:08:19.077
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• I believe it is all about creating a space for informal meetings, some dialogue,00:08:23.198
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• and even though within UMA and the audioguides it is mediated virtually,00:08:30.047
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• it is still talking about art,00:08:37.354
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• in this space the most important part is the moment of meeting,00:08:42.902
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• an opportunity to share something that is maybe not even finished yet,00:08:49.185
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• and the award also works very much like this,00:08:52.677
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• although this year we organized quite a big conference in collaboration with AVU,00:08:56.384
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• it was still based on our informal meetings and discussions00:09:02.062
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• that took place over the course of the previous two years,00:09:06.864
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• it was a bit more official format but still based on these principles.00:09:09.325
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• Our aim is to conceive the yearly programme00:09:24.502
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• so that the two months long phases00:09:29.255
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• cover an interesting scale of approaches and artists,00:09:32.507
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• on of the slots we try to provide for some newcomer,00:09:38.308
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• since this year one of the slots is for a theorist,00:09:42.548
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• for us it is not necessary for them to be artists,00:09:48.346
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• we started to work more with duos, guests,00:09:51.309
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• the actual person invites other people into the whole phase or just part of it,00:09:54.571
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• and ideally someone from the more established scene,00:10:10.845
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• one project on the occasion the Věra Jirousová award00:10:16.395
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• and starting from next year we would like to have someone from abroad00:10:18.715
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• or at least partially linked to other residencies in Prague,00:10:25.334
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• people who work between the scenes00:10:29.358
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• and ideally present foreign artists within this format, too.00:10:33.392
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• We have this small space but at the same time00:10:48.558
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• a lot of the projects take place in other spaces00:10:50.946
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• or are somehow linked to them,00:10:55.003
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• and it is a long term effort to support things and this search,00:10:59.957
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• but also ideally not to aim it inside for the art scene00:11:07.512
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• but try to work with different communities through the guests,00:11:13.220
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• maybe not necessarily try to address the widest public00:11:19.562
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• which I am not sure this project is aimed at or interesting for,00:11:23.469
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• but through personal circles of people around our guests00:11:28.786
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• who do not necessarily have to be part of the art scene00:11:35.441
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• to widen this awareness and to move these circles00:11:40.575
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• further and further, maybe even to different fields.00:11:50.319

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