EXPOSITION
Tomáš Svoboda’s installation “Exposition” makes use of generally accepted concepts of film. We are witnesses of a utopian research project that works with the following premises: What can be lost and with what can we replace something so that, thanks to the spectator’s imaginative experience and imagination, the illusion of the cinematic experience is preserved? Is it possible to make a film without sound and to replace the picture with text? To what extent can the scenery trigger a chain of associations and emotions in order to become a surface for mental projection? Or let us look at it from another angle: Is our visual experience imprisoned by the world of automatic responses and stereotypes, meaning that a dark room with rows of chairs and a projector automatically causes us to conclude that we are in a cinema, the same way that a series of text edited together evokes the feeling of watching a cinematic (visual) production? Or put differently: How many times have you seen a movie after reading the book? And how many times have you read the book after watching the movie?
Ondřej Chrobák
- "Exposition"00:00:11.087
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- Yet since a viewer enters here00:00:37.511
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- he realizes that he´s got into some environment that00:00:39.767
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- is formed by details that indicate that00:00:43.227
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- this place is a railway station with a kiosk in the middle.00:00:47.054
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- When a viewer goes through the kiosk, he gets into the projection room.00:00:50.797
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- He gets trough something like Alice´s mirror into other time and place.00:00:58.934
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- There he can see a film.00:01:02.908
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- I call it a film, but in fact it is a sequence of sentences.00:01:06.918
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- It is a film without pictures.00:01:11.665
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- When a viewer makes an effort, and stays there for 15 minutes,00:01:14.990
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- watches the movie, he´ll realize that the platform with the kiosk00:01:22.606
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- is the environment where the "film" takes place.00:01:25.282
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- Recently, I´ve intended to think of00:01:31.098
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- narration on the principle that I call "imagine principle".00:01:34.873
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- In fact, on the principle where a viewer is given00:01:40.104
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- only certain clues or anchors that will help him to be able00:01:44.384
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- to imagine some story.00:01:49.931
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- The installation looks like this due to the film.00:01:52.408
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- In the film we are at the railway station.00:01:56.983
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- That´s why here is the elevated floor and the kiosk.00:02:00.593
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- However, the imagination is up to the viewer.00:02:15.462
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- Also the film that is without pictures, is written in very simple, short sentences00:02:21.502
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- in order to leave the space for own imagination.00:02:30.542
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- Everybody watches the same,00:02:36.071
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- but everybody will imagine the place and the story by himself/herself.00:02:37.811
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- I intend to find some gap between film, theatre, literature and some environment.00:02:42.424
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- I intend to find something in each type of narration that could be used for my purpose.00:02:52.310