P.O.L.E. – The Demon of Conformity
“Because of its beliefs, the Figure agrees to being promoted to a position which is beyond its abilities. To be a Figure is to play a role so that you only play a role, what is more, you play it rather poorly. To be a Figure means to act as if you were not responsible, as if up there there were agents who think, plan, and make decisions for you. They are the responsible ones.”
“When the ship is sinking and there is a hole of the size of a big gate below its waterline, a reasonable captain does not send his cabin-boy to paint the mast. We don’t even have time to think about how we write, what kind of poetry and prose it is. We live in the midst of an earthquake.”
The exhibition involves a 24-hour marathon of reading of texts by Ladislav Mňačko, Ludvík Vaculík, Dominik Tatarka, and Pavel Kohout and a relay-stick which listens and voicelessly agrees to what is read. The marathon will start on the day of the opening at 8. a.m.
- Is a rainbow trout? A Swedish woman asked naively.00:00:09.844
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- A forester started to explain it to her widely.00:00:16.362
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- He told her that trouts were doing well here.00:00:18.425
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- They import them from Canada, from such a distance.00:00:20.808
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- However, the living here does them good.00:00:23.199
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- They grow quicker than brown trouts, and00:00:25.854
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- they are spawning more easily.00:00:28.207
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- The thin, elegant Swede was listening to him with a strange smile.00:00:30.758
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- When he finished she asked the interpreter what "pekněprosím" means.00:00:35.654
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- She added that she had understood a trout.00:00:40.539
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- His husband did not even intend to pretend any interest.00:00:45.951
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- He stood aside.00:00:50.386
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- He looked with apparent disdain at the others who were quite excited fishing out00:00:51.643
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- one fish after another.00:00:57.846
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- The host could feel that something was wrong.00:00:59.157
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- Did anybody offend him?00:01:01.380
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- He called the interpreter.00:01:05.707
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- Good morning.00:01:11.105
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- Good morning.00:01:12.558
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- Let´s have a seat, please.00:01:14.266
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- Anything to drink?00:01:24.334
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- No, thanks.00:01:27.150
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- Sir I wouldn´t have found it.00:01:38.878
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- If somebody had told it is here,00:01:42.107
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- I would not have believed him.00:01:44.084
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- It is a nice place here.00:01:46.576
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- Thanks.00:01:48.594
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- We are glad you have come.00:01:50.064
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- So we are going to read.00:01:53.253
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- We have been reading here since the morning, since 8 a.m.00:01:55.317
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- I am going to pass the baton on you.00:01:57.858
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- I don´t have to return it.. Where shall I put it?00:02:03.505
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- Just lay it on the sofa next to you.00:02:08.674
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- We need a recording device and a microphone.00:02:12.025
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- There is a microphone.00:02:15.118
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- No, it is not.00:02:17.144
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- An Axe, I don´t know what edition, page 104.00:02:22.915
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- The author goes to visit his brother,00:02:34.607
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- and before he arrives to him, he reminds of all the circumstances00:02:41.761
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- where he comes from, who his brother is,00:02:49.269
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- they represent his returns home into his hometown, where00:02:57.134
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- he used to live with his father, mother, younger sister and two younger brothers.00:03:02.156
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- The most interesting thing about is that -00:03:09.319
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- all of them are still alive,00:03:13.112
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- when we meet my two younger brothers remember different father than I do.00:03:14.845
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- The father as a worker used to be often unemployed.00:03:27.517
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- It was in a poor region, where lack of work was....00:03:37.867
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- in Moravia...00:03:43.194
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- After 1945 he together with other people initiated a founding of a factory.00:03:46.285
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- So they were happy, they think it would be better.00:03:56.411
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- The year 1951 was the beginning of socialization of agriculture.00:04:00.995
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- He was a communist, he found himself in this situation,00:04:05.027
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- he liked those people, he understood them.00:04:12.497
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- And he should apply politics that was against them, in fact.00:04:17.646
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- He became an official, then a secretary of national committee.00:04:24.450
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- He started to have many social contacts and drink.00:04:31.597
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- My brothers know different father than I am writing about.00:04:48.320
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- This inner conflict of mine of an honest man I solved by this Axe.00:04:54.359
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- Page 104, it is almost at the end.00:05:06.958
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- Before I describe how I was driving to my brother, who00:05:19.668
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- worked as a driver, and what I was doing at his home,00:05:25.043
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- I have to explain something else about our beautiful house.00:05:30.163
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- All the book is about the travel to my brother who worked as a driver.00:05:34.358
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- Can you hear me?00:05:38.405
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- There are certain questions on the settlement00:05:43.081
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- of our domestic matters in unexpected cases.00:05:48.172
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- I can´t even think of it, I said.00:05:51.220
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- Toto je představení nazvané Démon souhlasu,00:05:59.854
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- Autorem je umělecká skupina Pole, jehož jsem členkou.00:06:01.654
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- Název výstavy "Démon souhlasu" je odvozen od názvu knihy00:06:08.707
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- slovenského autora Dominika Tatarky.00:06:13.668
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- Představení je zaměřeno na českou a slovenskou literaturu šedesátých let.00:06:16.097
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- Celé představení se skládá ze dvou částí.00:06:21.343
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- První část představuje čtecí maraton.00:06:24.345
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- Trvá 24 hodin a účastní se ho 48 lidí.00:06:26.586
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- Každý čte půl hodiny.00:06:33.993
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- Účastníci čtou romány Dominika Tatarky, Ludvíka Vaculíka nebo Pavla Kohouta.00:06:37.425
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- Texty, které čteme, popisují období padesátých let,00:06:46.244
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- ačkoliv byly napsány v letech šedesátých.00:06:53.136
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- Vyprávějí o období stalinismu, dramatickém období českých dějin.00:06:56.487
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- Účastníci si během čtení předávají štafetový kolík, ve kterém00:07:14.460
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- je umístěné nahrávací zařízení.00:07:23.758
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- Ta druhá část je výstava, která prezentuje štafetový kolík.00:07:32.621
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- V podstatě je to socha ztvárňující posluchače.00:07:47.772
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- Dále zde najdete plakát s textem00:07:57.344
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- popisujícím důvod vzniku výstavy a výběr literatury.00:08:00.044
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- Jedná se o metaforu maratonu.00:08:10.269
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- V rámci maratonu si předáváte zprávu.00:08:12.828
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- Tato metafora je pro nás velmi důležitá.00:08:16.718