Point 0

• 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

one comment for “Point 0”

1. Janík says on26. Apr. 2012:
   

   nefunguje!!! jde asi do 3 min a pak se sekne … nebo mám jenom já podělaný kompjuter ?

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