ATLANTIS

• The exhibition "Atlantis" is a Slovak part00:00:10.728
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• of an international project called "Atlantis"00:00:14.079
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• that originated in cooperation with many organizations.00:00:18.656
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• The project should be held on the borders between the western and eastern block.00:00:20.896
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• The countries involved are Bulgaria, Greece, Germany and Slovakia00:00:34.275
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• that has extended the theme a bit.00:00:42.978
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• Apart the theme of borders between the western and eastern block,00:00:47.891
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• we try to thematize not only the question of borders,00:01:00.302
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• but also of communism.00:01:06.803
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• Most of the artists presented here00:01:12.637
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• were yet children when the communism regime fell.00:01:16.744
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• The majority of the works exhibited here00:01:35.989
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• represent their memories or just reflections.00:01:37.920
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• This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Revolution00:01:40.484
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• thus we´ve decided to invite other generation.00:01:49.605
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• Because the older generation lived through communism00:01:54.584
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• they know what to say, and there are lot of activities00:01:57.870
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• all over Europe that deal with this theme.00:02:02.399
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• We´ve decided to provide the space to younger generation00:02:04.603
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• who lived their childhood in communism,00:02:09.686
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• but they also lived through00:02:12.203
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• I´ve been looking for something that would substituate the place of nation.00:02:32.777
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• That´s why I deal with the idea of the North.00:02:39.936
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• I don´t want to privilege northern nationalities.00:02:43.205
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• It is more about the feeling of affiliation00:02:48.201
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• that does not relate to a nation, but to archetypes here.00:02:59.157
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• In my work I´ve been dealing with centre and periphery.00:03:38.420
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• It also relates to Czechoslovakia.00:03:44.354
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• This represents our strike on the Czech Republic for stealing Czechoslovak flag.00:03:46.347
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• This symbolizes the problems related to international relationships.00:03:52.612
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• Nowadays Slovakia is named Tatra tiger.00:03:58.898
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• It refers to the economics.00:04:08.674
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• This sign should represent how the Slovaks cope with their history.00:04:16.766
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• My project is called Organela.00:04:31.638
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• It is Border Series III.00:04:33.094
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• I´ve been dealing with borders for a long time.00:04:35.222
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• This project is situated on the Slovak-Hungarian border.00:04:40.711
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• As anybody knows there is a permanent tension between the Slovaks and the Hungarians.00:04:45.406
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• It is a real piece of land.00:04:53.985
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• It is a meander of the river Ypel.00:04:56.785
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• I have appropriated this piece of land and I called it Organela.00:04:59.368
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• It is a borrowing from biology.00:05:04.577
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• It is something that nourishes cell.00:05:08.815
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• This meander was not know so far.00:05:12.857
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• It didn´t have any identity.00:05:18.289
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• Due to my project it has gained its identity.00:05:21.392
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• It is important.00:05:24.143
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• I called the place.00:05:26.897
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• It is between the Slovak and Hungarian territory.00:05:32.627
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• My project is called "Frontier Guards on the Danube".00:05:46.906
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• It is named after a book published in 1985.00:05:50.538
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• It was a propagandistic book for children about the work of frontier guards.00:05:55.516
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• I divided the book into two parts.00:06:05.706
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• In the first part there are lots of banal stories, and romantic descriptions of nature.00:06:07.650
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• The second part forms agitational texts against our enemies behind our border.00:06:24.159
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• I chose this book also cause we are now part of Schengen.00:06:33.128
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• Therefore, we don´t realize that there are some borders.00:06:36.544

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