Public Dialog
Medzinárodný umelecký projekt Transart Communication – Public Dialog je zameraný na maďarsko-slovenskú pohraničnú oblasť. Cieľom festivalu je opätovne premyslieť základné otázky interetnicých a multikultúrnych vťahov, predovšetkým s akcentom na aktuálne vzťahy slovensko-maďarského spolunažívania.Vo verejných priestranstvách Komárna a Komáromu, miest rozdelených hranicou, ležiacich na protiľahlých brehoch Dunaja, realizuje svoje projekty 20 maďarských a slovenských umelcov s nádejou, že prispejú k európskemu riešeniu existujúcich napätí, kultúrnych a etnických nezrovnalostí. Projekt v sebe zahŕňa umelecké sympózium, public artovú výstavu, performance a diskusie.
- The project is named00:00:28.186
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- "Transart Communication - Public Dialog".00:00:30.695
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- It runs from October00:00:34.268
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- It includes an exhibition of works00:00:38.455
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- by ten Hungarian and ten Slovak artists.00:00:41.455
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- The main themes are multiculturalism00:00:47.920
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- and interethnicity in real life.00:00:51.404
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- We also added the theme of Komárno00:00:55.062
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- and that's why we invited the artists here.00:00:58.587
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- They could observe the city00:01:02.348
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- and then react to some situations.00:01:04.839
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- We also reserved a few alternative venues00:01:08.907
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- for the project,00:01:13.300
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- such as the cinema00:01:15.538
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- and one gallery00:01:18.045
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- in an old factory building.00:01:20.598
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- I see in this project00:01:24.132
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- a challenge of self-reflection00:01:27.074
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- to the inhabitants of the city00:01:30.714
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- and the Hungarian minority.00:01:34.839
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- Komárno is a symbol00:01:38.827
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- of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia,00:01:41.238
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- which is the reason why00:01:44.601
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- there are so many political performances.00:01:47.101
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- Everyone tries to find their own place00:01:50.929
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- and to define it00:01:54.680
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- historically and politically.00:01:57.126
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- We invited the artists so that they could00:02:19.213
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- express their opinion on the situation00:02:22.617
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- and make the public see the reality00:02:26.117
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- they live in00:02:29.784
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- from a different angle.00:02:32.638
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- There were also a few panel discussions.00:02:36.044
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- Some issues simply needed to be discussed.00:02:39.797
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- I think Komárno is a very special case00:02:45.248
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- and we don't know exactly00:02:48.704
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- how this project should continue.00:02:51.727
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- It was specially conceived00:02:55.682
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- for this city,00:02:58.682
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- for its past and its present.00:03:01.663
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- The project is a result00:03:04.986
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- of the political events00:03:07.486
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- of the last few years, at least for me.00:03:09.986
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- It seemed to us that we needed to react00:03:14.052
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- in our own way. It was a necessity.00:03:17.500
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- If I were to choose my favorite work,00:04:07.245
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- I'd probably choose00:04:10.977
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- the work by Michal Moravčík.00:04:13.477
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- In an ancient building he found pedestals00:04:16.275
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- that faced the wall since 1945.00:04:19.801
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- Moravčík made the pedestals00:04:23.795
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- into rotating objects that anyone00:04:26.595
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- who comes here can turn around.00:04:29.577
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- And that's the point.00:04:32.621
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- It's a reaction to a particular place00:04:35.390
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- and the history of the place.00:04:40.431
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- Another work00:04:44.100
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- we are really happy to have here00:04:46.100
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- is the Museum series00:04:49.111
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- by the Kassa Boys group.00:04:51.956
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- The works comment on several statements00:04:54.695
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- spoken by Ján Slota.00:04:57.857
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- It's important for local people to see this00:05:00.192
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- because it's the first display00:05:03.917
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- of this series00:05:06.823
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- in the Hungarian part of Slovakia.00:05:08.823
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- I'd like to add00:05:18.995
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- that at the "Empathy Boutique"00:05:21.239
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- created in the former cinema00:05:24.239
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- you can see works by a gypsy artist00:05:30.126
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- from Hungary00:05:33.626
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- who made some naive paintings00:05:35.829
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- depicting the visit of Sólyom,00:05:38.829
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- the president of Hungary.00:05:41.897
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- There is also an object found by János Sugár00:05:44.587
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- during our first trip to Komárno.00:05:48.408
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- He put it on T-shirts with texts00:05:51.561
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- that you can read only in a mirror.00:05:54.837
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- I was aware of the small size of Komárno00:06:07.212
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- and of the fact that a similar event00:06:11.456
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- has never taken place here.00:06:14.561
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- And I'm satisfied with the result.00:06:17.561
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- This was public art00:06:20.978
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- and the public paid attention to it.00:06:23.478
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- Any reaction is interesting for us,00:06:26.837
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- whether it's positive, or negative.00:06:30.337
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- We also organized two panel discussions00:06:34.742
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- that were very important00:06:39.123
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- because people may start to look00:06:42.098
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- at the artworks in a different way00:06:45.598
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- if they hear the opinion of an expert00:06:49.676
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- during the discussion.00:06:53.401
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- The panel discussions were just as important00:06:55.968
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- as the artworks themselves.00:07:00.244