PSEUDOSCIENCE
“God as a worm gnawing in the emmenthal of the Universe” The Pseudoscience exhibition got the curator Milan Mikuláštík into quite an unusual situation when instead of selecting artists into a predetermined conception, he tried to find a pervading hypothetic moment for an inconsistent group of artists primarily related by a common studio in a former factory in Bubeneč.
- NTK Gallery00:00:09.944
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- That's what this exhibition is about:00:00:17.751
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- Is this an artistic group, or not?00:00:21.487
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- This place is close to the studio00:00:25.550
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- where all the participating artists work.00:00:29.210
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- They form a certain social group00:00:33.729
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- that has been created spontaneously.00:00:37.389
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- That's why I had the idea to ask them00:00:41.339
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- to move their works one kilometer or so,00:00:46.609
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- to show them in the context of this institution.00:00:50.484
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- I was curious about the result.00:00:55.813
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- Usually, the curator chooses a theme00:01:20.780
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- and then contacts artists who might resonate with it.00:01:24.261
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- However, this situation is reversed00:01:29.664
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- because the curator needs to find the intersection00:01:33.816
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- of all the strong artistic characters00:01:39.451
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- whose decision to work together00:01:44.308
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- isn't a result of some program or manifest.00:01:47.778
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- The word "Pseudoscience" has a broad meaning.00:01:52.235
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- In any case, this is not a thematic exhibition00:01:56.926
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- and the title is more of an alibi,00:02:01.979
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- an attempt to find what they may have in common.00:02:05.479
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- The subheading of the exhibition00:02:19.526
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- is a quote by Menocchio, the Italian heretic miller.00:02:23.026
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- In a way, these artists are heretics00:02:27.990
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- against the contemporary mainstream conceptual approach.00:02:32.653
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- They often express the contradiction00:02:38.370
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- between the rational and irrational cognition.00:02:42.363
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- Many of them make use of irony.00:02:46.877
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- The exhibiting artists also deal with myths.00:02:50.938
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- And these are just some blurred edges00:02:55.718
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- of all that the exhibition expresses.00:02:59.732
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- As I've already said, the title "Pseudoscience"00:03:04.122
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- is only a general label to what is presented here.00:03:08.622
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- Camera, editing00:03:15.287