Suspendované mytológie
Radim Labuda sa systematicky venuje práci s videom v jeho „turistickej“ podobe. Bez plánu nachádza a zaznamenáva obrazy a situácie, ktoré takto osamostanené z tkaniva reality a prenesené do nových kontextov vstupujú do vzťahov signifikácie. Vidoeinštalácia „Suspendované mytológie“ je pokusom o ďalší pohľad na takto získavaný materiál a o jeho analýzu v opozícii k pohyblivým obrazom, ktoré divákom servírujú médiá. Autor hľadá a zároveň odďaľuje možnosti, akými tieto obrazy môžu vstúpiť do komplexných mytologických vzťahov.
- Radim Labuda SUSPENDED MYTHOLOGIES00:00:06.025
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- The title of my installation00:00:09.525
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- is "Suspended Mythologies".00:00:12.525
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- The installation is a little interactive,00:00:15.610
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- I let the viewers control the volume00:00:19.110
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- of the videos and switch between them.00:00:22.780
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- The degree of interactivity is rudimentary,00:00:26.323
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- everything is controlled00:00:30.628
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- by regular TV and DVD player buttons.00:00:33.628
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- The TV screens show videos00:00:40.886
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- depicting things and events00:00:48.192
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- shot at random, as they came.00:00:52.846
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- As usual, I shot them while traveling,00:00:57.505
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- this time during the last 6 days00:01:01.122
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- of last year in Finland.00:01:04.122
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- In a way, you might call it "tourist art",00:01:07.397
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- or "holiday art",00:01:11.228
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- as professor Bielický used to say.00:01:13.728
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- This is caused by the fact00:01:17.314
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- that on my travels I'm always more inclined00:01:20.314
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- to look around myself, notice things,00:01:24.657
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- and try to interpret what I see.00:01:28.392
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- This method of shooting videos00:01:32.433
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- continues to fascinate me00:01:35.433
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- because it doesn't involve any clear purpose00:01:39.584
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- in the author's mind.00:01:44.300
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- It's just about situations you encounter.00:01:46.800
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- These kinds of tourist snapshots00:01:50.308
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- are always non-ideological.00:01:53.646
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- They let the viewers00:01:56.814
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- look for things that they might associate00:01:59.314
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- with stories they've known already.00:02:03.022
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- I always try to watch the videos00:02:06.766
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- not as their author,00:02:11.056
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- but rather as their first viewer,00:02:13.896
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- and I choose the names for the videos00:02:19.526
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- according to what comes to my mind00:02:22.917
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- when watching them.00:02:26.026
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- That's my only hint for the other viewers.00:02:28.574
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- By the term "suspended mythologies"00:02:31.974
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- I refer to the effort00:02:35.434
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- to disengage from mythology.00:02:37.934
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- It's a simple pun - to suspend00:02:40.877
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- means to stop,00:02:43.877
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- but it also evokes suspense, tension...00:02:46.519