ESSL AWARD CEE 2009 (SLOVAKIA)
- In my video called "Signs" I deal with a situation00:00:51.918
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- when people do not know any foreign languages and00:00:55.021
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- what happens if they have to communicate with each other.00:00:59.834
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- I have realized that in these situations we use gestures.00:01:05.480
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- I did a performance called "Muslim Women."00:01:09.005
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- It was a part of a performance that I did in Nitra.00:01:13.385
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- It may be about the change of surroundings.00:01:17.931
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- I used to be a performance for public space00:01:22.281
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- where people could react on them.00:01:23.977
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- In fact, they react on the reality presented by media.00:01:29.676
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- This reality is connected with islam and terrorism.00:01:33.220
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- It was interesting to do it in the gallery. A second connection originated.00:01:37.114
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- However, I may miss people´s reaction.00:01:40.561
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- On the other hand, this reaction was substituted by the commission´s reaction.00:01:43.117
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- Another reason why I have chosen this performance00:01:46.945
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- was that it has corresponded to my video.00:01:52.109
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- I dedicate to media combination,00:02:11.915
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- mainly video and painting, or painting and projection.00:02:14.684
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- I am a student of painting, but I needed to try to work with media.00:02:20.577
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- I didn´t want to leave my painting work,00:02:26.299
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- so I found out my way.00:02:30.566
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- A new conception where I combine painting with video.00:02:35.872
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- I wanted to create a harmonical unity,00:02:41.404
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- and at the same time to move painting further.00:02:44.344
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- I did not want to give up painting.00:02:47.266
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- When I came to the sculpture studio, to the professor Bartos.00:02:50.772
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- I was very interested in prenatal period.00:03:01.212
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- This may be related to my mother.00:03:04.253
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- She died when I started to study at university.00:03:06.991
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- Učitel z kurzu alfabetizace.00:03:29.972
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- Přestali chodit do školy nebo tam nikdy chodit nezačali.00:03:32.614
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- Znají jen svou mateřštinu.00:03:38.257
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- Posílám krásné pozdravy a přeju jí hodně štěstí a zdraví.00:04:13.157
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- Zdravím svoji kmotru.00:04:17.875
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- The idea originated like this that I have grown up with my grandparents.00:04:23.764
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- I stayed with them every summer.00:04:28.100
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- It was the only relation I could experience during my childhood00:04:30.771
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- because my parents are divorced.00:04:36.601
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- I have started to take pictures of this relation because I wanted to comprehend it.00:04:40.660
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- It was a negative relation for me.00:04:46.681
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- This work may help not only me to understand it00:04:49.616
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- but also the others.00:04:54.568
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- I have tried to find out suitable way to visualize it.00:04:59.811