Rahova
Projekt českého umelca Davida Možného vychádza z umelcovho výskumu panelového sídliska Rahova v Bukurešti v Rumunsku, ktoré je stelesnením urbanistickej utópie a zlyhania smutne spojenými so socialistickou minulosťou stredo a východoeurópskych krajín.
Projekt českého umelca Davida Možného vychádza z umelcovho výskumu panelového sídliska Rahova v Bukurešti v Rumunsku, ktoré je stelesnením urbanistickej utópie a zlyhania smutne spojenými so socialistickou minulosťou stredo a východoeurópskych krajín.
- The project is named Rahova00:00:14.348
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- after a housing estate in Bucharest.00:00:17.936
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- I work with the theme of urban spaces00:00:22.819
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- that stand apart from the structure of the city.00:00:28.397
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- Michel Foucault calls it heterotopia.00:00:34.117
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- A few years ago00:00:38.223
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- I helped organizing an exhibition in Bucharest.00:00:40.723
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- Before I went there I looked at some satellite photos00:00:45.406
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- and I saw that several areas in Bucharest00:00:51.773
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- were completely different00:00:56.755
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- from the overall structure of the city.00:00:59.886
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- So after I came to the city I visited those areas00:01:04.502
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- to see what they looked like in reality.00:01:10.046
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- And I was fascinated by this housing estate.00:01:15.816
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- I realized that it resulted00:01:24.685
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- from the combination of several phenomena.00:01:28.324
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- First, it represents the dead end00:01:35.357
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- of a certain type of urbanism,00:01:40.864
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- of the social ideas developing since the 1930's.00:01:45.315
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- Rahova is a material proof00:01:56.345
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- that this idea came to an end00:02:04.251
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- and transformed into something else.00:02:10.790
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- The utopia became a heterotopia,00:02:15.195
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- a city without the elements normally expected in a city.00:02:19.261
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- One of the expected elements is a supply structure00:02:26.949
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- comprising shops etc, which is absent from Rahova.00:02:33.693
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- It's just a housing machine.00:02:39.034
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- I was fascinated00:02:42.454
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- by this housing machine people built for themselves00:02:45.454
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- without thinking about its viability.00:02:51.067
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- I'm interested in digital video and animations.00:02:54.640
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- At the time when I was in Rahova I did a certain type of animations.00:03:00.211
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- And I thought Rahova was great material for my animations.00:03:06.176
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- I didn't care about the social context,00:03:11.862
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- only about the appearance, the gray concrete,00:03:15.909
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- and the uniform architecture on a mass scale.00:03:21.192
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- It's a natural continuation00:03:36.622
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- of my interest in heterotopias,00:03:40.060
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- in spaces differing from the structures they exist in.00:03:43.721
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- The video and the installation you can see here00:03:51.545
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- speak little of the real situation.00:03:56.391
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- In reality the whole estate looks a bit different.00:04:00.150
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- I shifted the reality00:04:05.346
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- towards a film-like appearance00:04:09.705
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- or an apocalyptic vision.00:04:15.052
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- However, the housing estate is not apocalyptic,00:04:18.943
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- there's normal life, no social segregation.00:04:23.486
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- I just thought it was a good idea00:04:30.482
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- to create a vision of an apocalypse00:04:35.313
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- people made for themselves and now they have to live with it.00:04:39.313