LOVE BOOK / EMERGENCY EXITS

• The exhibition consists of objects and video performances.00:00:11.060
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• Objects are less numerous00:00:16.969
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• but they appear in most of the videos.00:00:19.969
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• My purpose is to use objects00:00:24.545
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• and follow what I call their "emancipation processes".00:00:28.037
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• It means that the objects leave their usual routine00:00:33.729
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• and a person uses them as technologies of their own.00:00:39.112
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• The term comes from Foucault.00:00:49.329
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• It denotes strategies we use to achieve personal quality,00:00:52.791
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• or at least that's how I interpret it.00:00:58.363
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• The video performances may seem banal00:01:02.270
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• but some of them required certain skills00:01:07.371
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• that needed to be developed,00:01:12.871
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• such as the video with the flag bearer.00:01:16.426
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• It was shot at the unused Artmedia stadium00:01:22.018
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• and it shows a man practising flag movements.00:01:27.518
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• This is my recurring theme00:01:32.027
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• as it reminds me of my childhood days,00:01:35.503
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• of a boy from my neighborhood who was a flag bearer00:01:40.245
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• and was presented to us as a role model.00:01:45.745
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• He was a good student and everyone admired him.00:01:49.731
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• Shortly after the fall of communism00:01:54.809
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• I saw him in skinhead clothes.00:01:58.977
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• It's an example of a rapid, dramatic change00:02:02.570
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• in the behavior of a person who leaves a certain grid,00:02:06.070
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• starts to oscillate like an atom,00:02:11.639
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• and creates something original and bizarre.00:02:15.139
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• Besides the videos with the communist theme00:02:19.663
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• there are also videos that show the use of make-up00:02:24.642
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• to model objects. A car interior, for instance.00:02:30.142
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• This work is connected with my earlier performance00:02:35.954
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• called "The Crash Test".00:02:41.157
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• In another video nail polish is used.00:02:44.657
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• The nail polish is processed by a nail designer00:02:49.229
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• who won the second place at an international competition.00:02:54.795
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• In the video she puts nail polish on a cow horn.00:03:00.793
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• I'm fascinated by the act00:03:09.599
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• of organizing one's artistic efforts and even one's life00:03:14.733
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• into a more homogenous form.00:03:20.421
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• This is why I'm looking for a way to make performances00:03:24.484
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• and use them to create a larger narrative.00:03:30.183
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• Not only this video shows a woman modelling a car interior,00:03:35.063
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• but in addition my thesis involved a performance00:03:40.995
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• during which I participated in a crash test00:03:46.036
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• in a paper model of a car crashing into a real car.00:03:50.304
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• So the connection is obvious and logical for me.00:03:56.071
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• The question was if my performances were planned.00:04:01.241
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• The truth is that I always have a plan00:04:06.741
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• but I try to keep it open.00:04:10.241
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• What I focus on are the turning points.00:04:13.932
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• I try to think about which part of the video00:04:18.676
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• might direct the performance towards a different narrative.00:04:22.788

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