The Offense of Things
Move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself.
Pohybujeme se ve světě věcí. To je časté téma poslední doby. Současně však stále zůstává těžké definovat, co vlastně věc je. Do jaké míry se jedná o produkt, materiál či fyzikální jev. Nezanedbatelnou roli hraje i otázka sítí vztahů, ve kterých tyto věci „fungují“. Jako předměty jsou v naší kultuře často chápána i sama naše těla. A to ne jako celky, ale jako součet menších, navzájem se vázajících částí. Naše údy a orgány jsou předměty vyžadující obdobnou péči jako předměty kolem nás, které používáme.
- The exhibition is called "The Offense of Things"00:00:16.309
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- which could mean more things but it´s a quote00:00:18.353
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- of the American theoretician Andre Lepecki00:00:27.367
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- but what I had in mind was how the currently topical theme00:00:31.279
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- of objectivity, objective ontology00:00:42.920
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- how it works in relation to our bodies00:00:47.074
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- and motion that enables us to move in the world of surrounding objects,00:00:51.347
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- or using a parable, how people and things dance00:00:57.565
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- in the present cultural-technological situation.00:01:04.006
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- The exhibition has an additional title, which is also a quote,00:01:08.572
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- of the minimalist artist Yvonne Rainer,00:01:11.669
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- saying you need to move or you´ll be moved by some thing rather than yourself.00:01:13.437
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- We often refer in a moralizing way to consumerist culture,00:01:25.536
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- we emphasize the materiality of our own body,00:01:32.977
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- luxury things we use, what we depend on, on consumerist culture.00:01:35.378
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- And we pride ourselves in being morally superior individuals,00:01:40.345
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- but of course critically seen, this is not my own thought,00:01:45.795
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- we can consider ourselves objects not only subjects,00:01:53.912
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- the subject may be the construct,00:02:01.885
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- which gives us the system it lives in,00:02:05.118
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- it sort of closes our mouth and gives us a feeling of safety.00:02:08.353
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- The exhibition consists of six works,00:02:14.624
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- installations, video-installations and videos00:02:20.537
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- by seven artists.00:02:27.409
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- We did not want the exhibition in the Emil Filla Gallery to be crowded,00:02:30.179
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- so each work has its own space,00:02:37.891
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- so it is a kind of airy installation.00:02:42.528
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- Most of the works are videos, but others border on installations,00:02:45.607
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- as in the case of Pavel Příkaský and Miroslava Večeřová00:02:53.067
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- who works with materiality, objectivity, the human body,00:02:56.008
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- and how we perceive it.00:03:02.296
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- It consists of a video, object - material installation, and a painting.00:03:04.178
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- The other installations and videos range from subjective interpretations of these aspects00:03:46.485
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- to didactic commentaries, for instance the video by the Polish artist00:03:53.536
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- Tymek Borowski called "How culture works?"00:04:02.844
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- and is accompanied by an analytical, didactic commentary.00:04:07.112
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- Another artist, who deals with sociological aspects and dialogue,00:04:44.720
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- confrontation of two approaches,00:04:50.400
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- and an exchange of experience between physicality and movement or speech,00:04:52.440
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- is Alžběta Bačíková.00:04:59.015
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- On the contrary, the works by Milan Mazúr, Martin Nytra and Barbora Švehláková,00:06:02.096
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- are visually more playful,00:06:11.873
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- and don´t have such a clear didactic structure,00:06:17.113
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- but of course many things could be placed in the post-internet box,00:06:20.830
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- which is so popular nowadays, mainly after the Berlin Biennale.00:06:26.720
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- But the same as at the biennale it shows that some of the aesthetic strategies00:06:29.769
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- and the crossovers between virtuality and objectivity00:06:37.397
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- present something broader than just the post-internet cliché as originally defined.00:06:40.763
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- We walked a couple of meters00:08:34.394
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- and suddenly I felt a pain in my chest, a kind of pressure,00:08:36.745
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- I fell on the floor,00:08:43.904
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- I was dead.00:08:47.919
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- I woke up in the same place,00:08:55.062
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- everything around me was white,00:09:00.133
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- it was neither light, nor dark,00:09:05.694
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- it was pure white,00:09:07.452
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- I wondered where I was,00:09:10.818
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- what kind of a place it was,00:09:14.110
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- but I didn´t see anything there.00:09:16.673