ATELIER Бања Лука
Studio Бања Лука (pronounced Banja Luka) was created as a spontanneous grouping of a broader circle of people from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and of external participants. As a working team of artists and theoreticians, they set as their main goal the examination of possible models of collective work. Since the initiation for the studio’s creation was an appeal made by two young Bosnian artists to organize an “exhibition” in Banja Luka, the horizon for the activities became the intended work residency in Bosnia, during which the functioning of the proposed models were to be verified. The specific rendering of jointly prepared scenarios revealed a complicated structure of supposedly democratic principles of production and introduced new elements into the group’s dynamics – such as the suppression of individual identity and its unexpected emergence, discipline and the breaching of rules, met and unmet expectations, the ideal of doing away with a hierarchy contrasting with the emergence of new social structures, etc. The therapeutic mode of the “system constellation”, whose “raw material of content” consisted of all the mentioned aspects of the studio’s collective activities, was chosen to be analysed and arranged and was adapted to the necessities for presenting them in a gallery. With regard to the studio method of ongoing seminars and events, the form of a gradual layering that materialise in the gallery space before and during the exhibition was chosen for a gallery installation.
- Shall I focus it anywhere?00:00:07.946
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- It may be good like this.00:00:13.140
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- You can go back now.00:00:20.151
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- Good evening!00:00:24.803
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- I was invited again to be voice of the studio Banja Luka.00:00:32.001
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- It is a collective activity, two-year workshop with pauses.00:00:39.180
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- It was based here in Brno at the Faculty of Fine Arts.00:00:46.037
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- We wanted to explore how big the group can be00:00:49.879
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- and still the principles of collective creation can work here.00:00:55.373
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- We were curious which models of collective work we could think of and realize.00:01:01.709
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- After one-year preparation00:01:06.981
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- we tried to process a part of our suggestions00:01:09.131
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- in Bosna and Hercegovina, in the town Banja Luka.00:01:13.782
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- During the stay there we created our material,00:01:20.068
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- we made a semifinished product.00:01:24.139
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- We brought many experiences with us.00:01:27.758
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- We realized that the group which00:01:32.581
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- should have been without any hierarchy,00:01:36.228
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- it created social dynamics and new roles,00:01:41.271
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- and it desintegrated into various subgroups.00:01:45.140
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- After some time when we tried to evaluate this experience,00:01:51.806
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- we came up with the idea that an exhibition could be a good evaluation.00:01:55.815
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- In the exhibition we´d able to join the material again,00:02:02.717
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- the semifinished products, and social dynamics.00:02:05.627
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- It is a kind or manner we tried to explore all this.00:02:09.307
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- Until the last moment we couldn´t know what it would look like,00:02:17.452
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- which we liked a lot,00:02:20.180
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- because it was a great opportunity to carry out an experiment.00:02:21.843
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- We wanted to know our mood,00:02:27.106
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- if there can appear some content point of intersections00:02:31.480
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- among all the objects exposed there.00:02:35.762
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- It is not the fixed final look.00:02:39.771
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- We´re having another appointment with the other participants before us.00:02:43.835
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- They have not had time to come, they will come during the exhibition.00:02:50.901
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- We will go on stratifying the symbolizations00:02:54.603
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- of different concepts and values we are working with,00:03:00.240
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- which are always related to collective activities, or00:03:03.377
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- to experience inside of the team, or to the exhibition preparation itself.00:03:08.169
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- Also it deals with the matters such as authority or coexistence,00:03:15.015
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- how they are defined.00:03:19.878
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- I think it is all about this.00:03:21.623