Point 0
The initiator of the POINT 0 project is an association called Verejný Podstavec („Public Plinth“) whose aim is to take a position on the difficult situation in transformation of public space in the countries of former East Block through artistic events.For this reason the members of this association invited significant contemporary artists from Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia in order to reflect freely on one of the largest squares in Bratislava. POINT 0 has a wider european context, because artists form the states of the V4 deal with similar confrontations of arts and politics, or art and society in their own countries as well.
- The project "Point Zero" has been00:00:13.631
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- iniciated by the association Public Pedestal00:00:16.138
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- involving Dalibor Bača, Tomáš Džadoň, Martin Ptáček and me.00:00:19.248
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- We intended to change opinion on art in public space.00:00:22.094
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- In general our attitude is old school whereas00:00:30.271
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- in the world there are closer to contemporary art.00:00:36.335
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- Yet in Bratislava there are no projects like this.00:00:41.816
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- We chose four artists who we considered interesting,00:00:45.569
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- whose work is significant with public art in Central Europe.00:00:49.252
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- We wanted them to react on the Square of Freedom.00:00:52.049
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- In 2012-2013 we are going to realize their designs one by one.00:00:55.109
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- So now we have a database00:01:01.181
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- that could be presented to politicians or officials,00:01:07.115
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- to people who are responsible for cultural events in town.00:01:11.567
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- Svůj projekt, který jsem nazval Korunovační údolí,00:01:20.056
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- vychází z jednoduché myšlenky.00:01:26.501
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- Jedná se o inverzi tzv. korunovační hory nebo korunovačních hor,00:01:28.746
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- v případě, že jich bylo více.00:01:32.370
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- Všichni asi znají tyto hory.00:01:35.870
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- Korunovační hory se stavěly z hlíny,00:01:43.083
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- která byla dovezena ze zemích rakousko-uherské monarchie.00:01:45.991
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- Já jsem v podstatě celý ten proces obrátil.00:01:54.460
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- Já jsem místo hory vykopal jámu nebo údolí.00:02:00.297
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- Vykopanou hlínu pak převezu zpátky na místa,00:02:06.663
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- ze kterých byla v minulosti odvezena.00:02:14.406
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- Maďarští umělci mají možnosti se prezentovat00:02:19.514
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- většinou ve spojitosti s určitým projektem, který se uskutečňuje čas od času.00:02:22.725
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- Hodně to záleží na aktivitě umělců, kurátorů, galerií nebo jiných uměleckých institucích.00:02:30.452
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- V Maďrasku stejně jako v okolních zemích00:02:40.812
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- je veřejný prostor pod kontrolou00:02:44.390
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- politické a úřední moci, není tedy v rukou umělců.00:02:47.368
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- Takže šance pro umělce nejsou velké.00:02:58.143
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- When the Public Pedestal asked me to come up with a new project,00:03:06.220
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- I knew it would be a very complicated thing because00:03:15.948
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- the association has been criticising sculptures in public space for a long time.00:03:22.814
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- So it means that the artists who were asked by the association00:03:29.109
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- are supposed to make something better.00:03:35.208
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- It is not best position to work.00:03:39.043
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- Secondly it is the fifth largest square in Bratislava00:03:44.023
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- heavily burdened by its history, events that took place there.00:03:46.696
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- There is much information that could be processed.00:03:53.648
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- First I went through the history itself.00:03:58.077
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- The square has had different names through its history.00:04:02.457
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- At present it is very difficult to make a sculpture into public space.00:04:09.986
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- I imagined that the square was always a place of action.00:04:26.496
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- I wanted to put there something movable.00:04:35.358
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- So I came up with the idea of tornado.00:04:41.957
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- There will be different materials inside of the tornado.00:04:46.076
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- It will be a sculpture or an object. It will be changeable.00:04:53.175
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- On the other side, it won´t burden the square00:04:57.235
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- because it will be removed once the event is over.00:05:00.243
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- I saw the tornado as a process creating posibilities for new realities, it´s a symbol.00:05:05.003
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- I have mainly experience with public art events.00:05:14.597
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- I don´t have experience with public sculptures.00:05:22.935
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- It is difficult to answer this.00:05:28.965
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- In my opinion the sculptures we saw around us00:05:32.963
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- do not relate to their surroundings or time, they burden the places.00:05:37.683
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- In my opinion, they have a pure decorative character.00:05:47.948
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- I would not call them sculptures, I think they are decorative objects.00:05:55.417
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- I perceive them as art industry.00:06:00.139
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- Artists rarely manage to give a true picture of the place itself.00:06:04.287
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- It is a public jukebox00:06:13.258
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- that should be placed on the Square of Freedom,00:06:20.867
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- which as it has been already expressed, is quite a big bit00:06:31.324
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- in the sense that the sociliasm is very present there.00:06:34.973
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- I think the sound expresses the square best.00:06:41.176
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- Of course, it is important to say what the jukebox has on its playlist.00:07:05.070
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- I have to think it twice.00:07:10.783
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- I think there will be from ten to twenty songs.00:07:16.999
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- So from Sex Pistols over dog barking, muezzin, national anthem, indian song of love,00:07:25.135
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- to Strauss, Beethoven, Klezmer.... to be connected to the place.00:07:38.099
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- I think even dog barking can create an inspiring atmosphere.00:07:48.014
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- The question of public space is burning.00:08:03.290
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- I think the situation is not ideal in Prague.00:08:10.047
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- I have quite good experience, which I consider a miracle.00:08:22.525
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- I am speaking about the lamp I made under the Nuselský bridge00:08:28.242
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- as a memento mori of suiciders.00:08:34.725
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- I managed to put the project through. It is permanently installed there.00:08:37.629
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- I´d not call it a monument, it´s just a reminder of the events that took place there.00:08:45.643
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- It is a very touchy problem, the town hall agreed.00:08:54.312
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- I think there are signs of possible improvement.00:08:59.465
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- They start to understand that even a bent lamp can be considered a sculpture.00:09:06.975
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- We do not have to explain it to us, however officials do not know this.00:09:13.073
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- I feel there is a movement to better future.00:09:17.413
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- It is necessary to organise such activities as the association Public Pedestal do.00:09:23.899
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- I think the more pieces of art we have in our public space the better it will be.00:09:29.553
nefunguje!!! jde asi do 3 min a pak se sekne … nebo mám jenom já podělaný kompjuter ?