White Dress
Vladimir Houdek teamed up for his presentation with the local artist Marek Prazak and together they presented a part of his recently published book White Dress. They supplemented the extract with the visitors’ involvement in their performance: everyone wrote down one word of a poem and the artist stuck them together with his illustrations on the presentation module. The visitors could also see the original illustrations of the text that were placed during the performance on the module.
- Jindřich Chalupecký Award Vladimír Houdek - "The White Dress"00:00:02.641
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- It is an honor for the city of Ostrava00:00:18.289
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- to collaborate with this award with 20 years of history.00:00:24.134
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- Currently we have an international jury00:00:30.188
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- that changes every 3 years.00:00:34.934
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- This year's chairman is Christian Rattemeyer00:00:38.507
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- from New York's MoMA.00:00:43.802
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- This well-respected jury is going to choose a laureate00:00:47.314
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- who will receive the award.00:00:53.422
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- The ceremony will take place at "Husa na provázku" theatre00:00:56.922
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- in Brno.00:01:03.127
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- One after another,00:01:21.172
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- try to connect this with an image.00:01:25.256
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- Oh, the color.00:01:35.647
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- The light blue color of chewed up apple cores,00:01:38.627
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- hanging there unwittingly.00:01:44.475
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- The despair of bare smoke. The stampede, the stains.00:01:47.475
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- I laughed at last.00:01:52.637
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- I laughed, plundering the garden with my limbs from crying.00:01:55.137
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- Maybe...00:02:05.229
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- He was taken away on the very same day.00:02:15.683
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- A week and three days.00:02:22.840
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- It will be a kind of surreal poem from you. With us.00:02:29.803
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- Now we'll sing the writings of these authors.00:02:49.794
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- A walk, arrival. I thought about seeds in the grass,00:03:40.537
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- about coming from the garden dividing sadness from happiness.00:03:46.668
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- I thought about the charm of the smiles00:03:52.595
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- hanging in the convex mirror above the wall.00:03:56.441
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- I looked for roots,00:04:00.761
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- for the traces of returning from the voices of flowers.00:04:03.261
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- White hips. Purple eyes. I looked for the sun's arrival.00:04:08.880
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- Pure infatuation. Despair.00:04:14.765
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- I thought about fishing lines in the lake,00:04:18.396
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- about him and his voices stirred up by the flight.00:04:23.030
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- I looked for time, for the moss,00:04:28.286
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- for the water lily shells.00:04:32.017
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- I looked for her mouth, her hands, white dress.00:04:35.457
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- This was an extract from a text published at Ausdruck Books.00:04:40.621
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- It's a prose poem, entitled "The White Dress".00:04:47.657
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- It was published earlier this year.00:04:53.059
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- I wanted to read it here00:04:57.786
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- in order to contrast it with my painting00:05:01.260
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- that is an antipole of literature and poetry.00:05:06.260
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- When painting, I create something material,00:05:11.498
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- whereas text is a new expression00:05:17.375
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- of what I try to paint.00:05:21.875
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- I don't strive for descriptiveness in paintings.00:05:25.910
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- To put it simply,00:05:32.106
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- narrative elements are covered with geometric shapes.00:05:35.620
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- What I see in literature00:05:42.715
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- is another way to express certain feelings,00:05:49.070
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- to say it simply.00:05:54.596
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