The Offense of Things

• 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

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