Final works of students from the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava
Selection of final works of students from the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava.
- May I start?00:00:03.764
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- I hate beginnings.00:00:06.125
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- So it is a video....00:00:10.823
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- Stop please!00:00:12.988
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- I am inspired by an old penitent psalm "De Profundis".00:00:15.564
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- It is from the Old Testament.00:00:19.701
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- It is one of the most expressive penitent psalms;00:00:21.889
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- many music composers decided to work with it.00:00:25.554
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- In my video you can see several musical directors.00:00:30.711
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- I asked them to direct this psalm.00:00:34.859
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- All had to choose their favourite music composer.00:00:43.516
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- All directed "De Profundis", but from different authors.00:00:48.017
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- The camera makes the ride through the space here, in Slovak Radio Station.00:00:52.541
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- I pulled them out of their environment.00:00:58.777
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- The orchestra is absent here.00:01:03.644
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- The directive gesture turns into the dancing gesture.00:01:07.505
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- Finally, a dance choreography originated.00:01:14.179
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- Once more.00:01:17.264
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- My practical final work consists of two parts.00:01:19.812
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- One is exhibited in the Open Gallery, it is a five-meter-large drawing,00:01:23.271
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- and three small exercise books and photos called Tree Towns.00:01:30.781
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- They represent utopian towns in trees.00:01:35.872
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- I made them by collages.00:01:38.535
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- The second part is an installation placed in00:01:44.001
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- the park of the Slovak National Gallery.00:01:46.464
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- There is a construction made of scaffold in trees.00:01:48.803
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- I made a platform there where00:01:55.737
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- during one week several events took place.00:01:57.261
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- I was inspired by a book about a twelve-year boy00:01:59.396
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- who always climbs up a tree and looks the world from the height.00:02:05.715
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- This may be related to the utopian architects00:02:11.324
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- who often dealt with superstructures in towns.00:02:15.360
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- "My Grandmother´s Garden" is the name of my work.00:02:23.000
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- She suffered from the cancer. This fact inspired me.00:02:31.159
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- One part is formed by a subjective family tree created by my close relatives.00:02:33.759
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- The other part are the wreaths.00:02:38.052
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- They represent the result of my thinking00:02:41.478
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- what has changed and what has not changed in my family.00:02:43.363
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- All the family hadn´t stopped taking care of the garden.00:02:46.692
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- Of course, the most typical work is pulling up weeds.00:02:50.387
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- It reminded me of the image of my grandmother00:02:55.872
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- and her desease spreading through her body quickly.00:02:59.467
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- between the desease, and the plants and the need to00:03:03.623
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- pull them up before spreading all over the garden.00:03:04.624
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- Here you can see a herbal with dry plants, notes and etc.00:03:12.569
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- In my final work I focus on confidence.00:03:21.213
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- I prepared an event that took 50 days in the street where I live.00:03:29.478
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- they took care of it.00:03:45.842
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- This plant represent a metaphor for fragility, for the loss of confidence.00:03:50.138
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- The project consists of video featuring the process during 50 days,00:03:55.134
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- video of planting a flower as a headstone for confidence,00:04:04.945
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- photo of a garden, which is in a public space, and the flower pot.00:04:17.683
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- My theoretical and practical final work00:04:27.925
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- is based on a project I cooperate on together with my friends in Nitra.00:04:35.589
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- Here it is exhibited as an interactive presentation.00:04:45.193
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- The basis of the project forms an installation00:04:54.186
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- taken place in Nitra from July 4 to July 8.00:04:57.988
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- The container formed an important part of the installation,00:04:59.022
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- it represented an observation post into the street.00:05:07.668
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- Viewers may enter the container,00:05:10.551
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- one wall was a projection, it projected the view of the street.00:05:14.528
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- When a viewer entered the container,00:05:23.513
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- the image he saw diminished little by little and the viewer remained alone there.00:05:26.642
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- Inside the container viewers can read a sentence:00:05:30.852
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- The exhibition deals with the interpretation of the visual laws00:05:41.935
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- as phenomena interpreted through my perception.00:05:50.531
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- Things that are certain for a man while perceiving the reality.00:05:57.014
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- Simultaneously, there is a instruction how to cross the border.00:06:06.215