JCHA 555 TV studio Zurich. What is videoart?
The author set up an improvised TV studio in a module she had been provided with. Invited actors – presenters created a typical reality show where they introduced the viewers into the topic „What is videoart“ and offered them immediately several answers. As a part of the presentation it was possible to see one of Adéla Babanová’s works projected on the wall of The Research Library in Hradec Králové.
The accompanyig program 5 Finalists 5 Months 5 Places is a presentatin of the most prestigious Jindřich Chalupecký Award. The artist Adéla Babanová created an improvised TV studio in a module which continued her long-run authorial conception. The invited actors – presenters created a typical reality show where they introduced the viewers into the topic „What is Videoart“. The show parodied similar TV programmes. The participants offered the visitors a wide range of answers to the question. It was possible to see one of Adéla Babanová’s works projected on the wall of The Research Library in Hradec Králové as a part of the presentation.
- The Jindřich Chalupecký Prize00:00:07.368
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- The Mobile TV Studio Zurich00:00:13.635
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- Good evening!00:00:27.840
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- Thank you for comming.00:00:30.006
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- I will be brief.00:00:31.844
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- I chose untraditional presentation.00:00:33.538
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- I asked mobile tv studio Zurich.00:00:37.775
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- I got an instruction from the direction00:01:11.594
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- that we do not have much time.00:01:13.781
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- So let's speak seriously about videoart.00:01:15.966
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- So we think that videoart is a video.00:01:20.788
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- It can be a video from holiday as you said.00:01:23.664
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- However, the word has two parts: video and art.00:01:26.913
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- What is art? Gábi.00:01:30.585
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- Art means art. So it isn't a normal video, but it is an art video.00:01:34.576
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- But who will decide this?00:01:43.034
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- Who is entitled to say that your video from holiday,00:01:46.708
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- or this girl's video, who is shooting here, she naturally has a video from holiday, too,00:01:48.895
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- is an artvideo.00:01:52.242
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- Who will judge it? Who is entitled to do so?00:01:54.608
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- There must be some commission.00:01:59.569
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- It won't be us, for sure.00:02:01.424
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- Daddy Suchý and Gábi Suchá are saying goodbye from the studio Zurich.00:02:04.472
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- Thank you.00:02:10.250
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- This event was called "What is a videoart?",00:02:32.081
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- with an undertitle: Mobile TV Studio Zurich.00:02:35.100
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- It was an event specially made for this evening,00:02:37.780
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- for the presentation within the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize.00:02:44.025
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- I told myself that the approach should be changed,00:02:49.821
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- especially for this kind of live event or presentation when00:02:56.366
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- I am supposed to present in 30 minutes what I am dealing with.00:02:59.844
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- Videoart is a concept that may sound as an art historian term.00:03:05.722
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- For people who aren't so much interested in art00:03:10.743
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- it may be difficult to understand videoart.00:03:14.131
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- That's why I chose a live opening.00:03:19.093
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- I asked actors I normally cooperate with in my videos.00:03:22.247
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- We came up with the event called "What is a videoart?"00:03:27.441
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- We thought up a mobile tv studio,00:03:37.245
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- and this bizarre couple of presenters00:03:39.721
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- who would try to reply the question.00:03:41.977
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- In the end, it is the same mystification,00:03:46.497
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- there is the same principle of mystification I work with in my videos.00:03:50.398
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- We pretend that it is an authentic mobile TV studio00:03:56.012
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- that has come here for one night.00:04:00.636
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