INTRO 518 TED 69 TED*TED 180 BONUS Q TRACK!
Jsme ústy historie. Reprodukujeme reprodukované. Nutnost je volbou. A životní styl lze lépe prodat. Od 60. let k subkultuře. Od postoje ke kompilaci. Od modernismu k divnosti. Jsme ústy historie. Dotyk proměňuje vše živé v úhledně černé hrací kostky. Náhoda je tu kurátorem. Kolik umělců se vejde do jedné galerie? Slyšeli jsme to? Ne! Neposloucháme a refrén zní: Prokopat se ven! Byla to dosti špatná píseň, jako celá devadesátá léta. Avšak přežili jsme… Jsme nejen jejími ústy, nýbrž i údy. Objekty nahodilých pohybů. Bušíme na šuplík a volíme nutnost a samozřejmě píšeme věty, abychom upoutali, tedy přijďte, obracíme se na vás, alespoň do té doby, než nás developeři vyženou o dům dál. Fuck you. Neslyšíte? Je tu trochu hluk.
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- INTRO 518 NOW*NOW 180 BONUS Q TRACK! Works chosen by:00:00:03.135
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- Well, we don't really remember the name...00:00:34.252
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- Intro... 518 Now, asterisk Now...00:00:37.947
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- exclamation mark.00:00:41.955
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- That's the name of the exhibition.00:00:47.373
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- It took us quite a long time to realize this exhibition.00:00:52.318
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- The original idea is two years old00:00:55.066
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- but we changed it some two months ago.00:00:58.153
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- First there was just Jirka and I, then Marek joined us00:01:04.052
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- with some crucial ideas.00:01:08.186
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- We were all very interested in studying00:01:18.605
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- the interconnection between music and visual arts,00:01:21.494
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- from the perspective of visual artists00:01:27.325
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- which are influenced by music00:01:29.597
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- or play in some bands00:01:32.117
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- or make musical-visual installations00:01:34.903
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- and so on.00:01:38.504
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- So this is how it all started.00:01:39.928
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- What else to say...?00:01:42.944
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- We tried to choose things00:01:46.678
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- that may not represent the core of the artists' work,00:01:49.590
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- which may be for instance paintings,00:01:52.386
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- but that are rather marginal00:01:56.598
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- and reflect the artists' skills00:02:00.662
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- and their inclination to working with music.00:02:03.152
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- There are many records and posters.00:02:06.387
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- We are interested in minor works00:02:09.932
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- that the artists themselves don't consider to be artwork,00:02:12.566
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- like things created out of passion,00:02:16.370
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- such as CD covers or small posters.00:02:20.037
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- This was our goal,00:02:25.925
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- but I'm not sure if we really met it...00:02:28.448
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- When collecting the works we didn't really know00:02:31.074
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- what we were going to get,00:02:35.489
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- so the conception was changing00:02:38.114
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- during the three days we were arranging the works.00:02:40.426
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- We really enjoyed the opportunity00:02:44.018
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- to be creative during the preparations.00:02:48.988
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- We tried to not impose any hierarchy00:02:57.523
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- and distinctions between what is art and what is not.00:03:03.221
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- We put it all together.00:03:07.413
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- We created a system of hanging things on the wall:00:03:12.561
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- It goes from scores00:03:16.318
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- to concepts and then to posters, realized works00:03:18.640
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- and finally to documentation.00:03:22.258
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- So there's a line of development.00:03:24.603
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- It's like a bildungsroman in music.00:03:27.756
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- We didn't aim for any discovery.00:03:31.022
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- It's not the objective of the research in this field.00:03:34.524
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- However, our target wasn't only the people our age.00:03:37.960
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- Of course, we made the choice00:03:46.021
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- among people connected with music...00:03:49.593
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- But we wanted to create a connection00:03:54.874
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- between people who are not very recognized,00:03:58.504
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- yet who have interesting projects.00:04:01.300
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- Interesting similarities can also be seen.00:04:03.679
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- This was one of our key objectives as well.00:04:06.899
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- So there's Jan Saudek, Milan Knížák,00:04:11.034
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- Vladimír Franz, Milan Grigar...00:04:13.575
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- Surprisingly, no one refused to participate.00:04:17.836
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- We had thought they wouldn't accept,00:04:22.991
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- but they all did.00:04:25.933
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- The most interesting thing for me00:04:29.077
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- was to observe the similarities00:04:31.380
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- between the different approaches,00:04:33.535
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- and it was truly enriching00:04:35.626
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- to meet the artists in person.00:04:37.718
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- This is also one reason for making exhibitions -00:04:39.900
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- meeting people.00:04:42.916
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- For instance, Milan Grigar who we wouldn't have meet otherwise.00:04:45.383
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- We also wanted to cross the barriers00:04:52.572
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- and taboos that exist on the art scene.00:04:55.138
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- Some artists would probably00:04:58.853
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- never have their works hung on the same wall,00:05:01.236
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- such as Saudek and Knížák.00:05:05.013
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- Some of the artists were very generous,00:05:08.906
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- such as Milan Grigar or Petr Nikl00:05:11.408
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- who lent us the originals of their drawings.00:05:13.307
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- In fact, all of the artists we approached00:05:16.165
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- were very helpful, and although they couldn't00:05:18.980
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- influence the location of their works,00:05:20.792
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- they gave us absolute freedom.00:05:22.912
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- They didn't even object to our choice of gallery.00:05:26.700
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- We let the project live its own way.00:05:35.054
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- For instance, we also addressed artists00:05:37.486
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- recommended by others.00:05:39.784
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- Sometimes we didn't even have enough time00:05:41.754
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- to talk to some of the recommended artists.00:05:44.469
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- Today's concert is a typical example.00:05:50.004
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- We never wanted a concert until00:05:52.261
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- Ivan Vosecký offered for us to organize one.00:05:54.210
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- Same thing with Pash.00:06:01.089
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- We knew about two things he was supposed to bring00:06:06.440
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- and the rest was just unexpected.00:06:11.858
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- We also had not seen all the posters.00:06:15.586
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- We just put them all on the walls.00:06:19.333