Artetherapy
„Artetherapy“ is a thematic exhibition of the video and multimedia studio which is one of the three studios of Intermedia and Multimedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
The exhibition introduces works of both present and former students, doctorands and assistants under the curator conception of Nora Růžičková. The studio is conceptually shaped and led by Anna Daučíková. The work selection presented at the exhibition offers an overview of the studio profile and individual approaches of the artists.
- The exhibition Artetherapy doesn´t represent classical exhibition00:00:04.858
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- which presents the best that have ever originated in this studio.00:00:08.866
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- It is a thematic exhibition.00:00:15.902
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- The theme is therapy, diagnostics, or trauma.00:00:20.875
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- The approach to the theme is quite ironic.00:00:29.797
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- Strategies usually used during therapy or diagnostics00:00:35.171
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- are ironized here. It means that00:00:44.244
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- things not normally analyzed are analyzed here, and00:00:51.551
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- problems not normally treated are treated here.00:00:57.727
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- The studio of video and multimedia work focuses on work with new media.00:01:09.577
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- It means: easy videos, one channel videos, video projections or installations,00:01:19.309
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- authorial documentaries or performances.00:01:26.358
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- However, the focus of the studio is broader.00:01:31.229
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- They are projects that also work with classical media.00:01:38.886
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- The author of this work created fictive farmaceutical preparation.00:01:45.413
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- She wanted to cure visitors of the gallery00:01:51.395
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- from their anorexia of art works at all.00:01:58.914
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- This preparation consists of six ingredients supporting00:02:08.299
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- physical and mental microflora.00:02:11.064
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- You can see an advertising video, like teleshopping.00:02:14.032
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- This story of regresive hypnotherapy is taken by a static camera.00:02:23.073
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- The strenght of the work lies in the choice of the hypnotizer.00:02:33.720
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- The hypnotizer is a deliquent, just about to be taken into prison.00:02:40.813
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- It is a video installation.00:02:49.514
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- There is a TV table with a TV and a sofa.00:02:54.632
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- The artist focuses on the problem of TV watching00:03:04.413
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- when a viewer identifies himself/herself with the hero or heroine.00:03:09.608
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- The artist chose the movie "To Break the Waves"00:03:14.791
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- by Lars von Trier.00:03:20.205
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- The artist chose seven girls at the age of the main protagonist.00:03:22.520
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- She let them to tell one chapter of this movie.00:03:29.414
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- The Jana Kapelová´s performance called00:03:35.804
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- "My memories of the mirror they blew air on."00:03:40.687
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- Jana worked on it together with her mother.00:03:44.998
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- They wrote the text together.00:03:49.759
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- It is a story about a reciter.00:03:52.959
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- The performance deals with the text recitation according to instructions.00:04:04.115
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- The author recited this text on request.00:04:13.150
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- Tomáš Klíma asked workers at a factory for automatic washmachines.00:04:18.843
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- He asked these workers to draw the factory they worked at.00:04:32.168
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- He exhibits them in a way of an easy interactive installation.00:04:47.386
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- Each drawing is placed under a worker´s identification number.00:04:54.177
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- Through clicking each drawing opens.00:05:00.372
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- My work is called "Medical Records".00:05:08.833
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- It is six textual computer animations.00:05:14.420
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- I worked with Freud´s medical records00:05:18.324
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- combining them with instructions on various household chores.00:05:21.813
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- Such as washing, dishwashing, ironing and bottling.00:05:31.410
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- These texts of different character mixed together here on these screens00:05:40.385
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- creating image of pixelated TV screen.00:05:48.506
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- It can also mean break-down rate.00:05:53.275