Aleš Čermák Jiří Skála
A group of people are standing in the backyard of a block of flats. Some of them are talking to each other, others are standing alone, sipping slowly red or white wine from plastic cups. Others are walking into or out of the building at irregular intervals. Behind the main entrance of the house there is an entrance into an exhibition space, so called gallery. The rooms are not furnished. There is nothing, except the visitors. Just white walls and grey floor. Everyone knows the others and they are on first name terms. They utter a few words now and then to the others. Nothing serious, just attempts to start a conversation. An elderly man whose behaviour and appearance do not correspond with the others appears in the backyard. However, he starts a conversation with several members of the group. The people listen to him patiently and then they refer him to the woman and the man standing nearby. They are the keepers of the gallery – Gabina Kotlikova and Dominik Lang. The man comes to them and repeats the sentences he had said before. Gabina or Dominik listen to him and then invite him to the gallery space. The man runs nervously through the rooms as if he were looking for something. After that he starts examining the whole space, which takes him a while. The last he does is open the door in the back right corner of the first room. It hides a small space with a toilet and the facilities of the gallery. The man enters and starts feeling all its walls in detail. Then he asks one more question. The people asked just shake their heads in disagreement. The man hesitates for a while if to leave, and at last he resolves and starts speaking again. His diction and gestures gradually addresses all the people in the gallery. He recites incomprehensible statements and sentences and then hangs a piece of A4 paper printed with text on the gallery wall. In the end, he is leaving.
- It is a provocation.00:00:17.222
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- How is it possible!00:01:01.805
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- Here is a room too, may I have a look?00:01:16.173
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- Oh, it is a toilet.00:01:24.885
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- It could be a safe.00:01:31.179
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- Do you have just these rooms?00:01:37.737
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- Yes, that is all.00:01:41.094
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- To understand me, I am looking for a safe.00:01:46.500
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- My mother used to work here for forty years.00:01:54.399
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- I must switch off the light.00:02:00.483
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- I used to play in the courtyard when I was small.00:02:02.742
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- She has woken up now,00:02:07.171
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- she´s reminded of her cup she left in the safe.00:02:09.520
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- I promised her to find it.00:02:14.488
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- So it seems it is not here.00:02:19.422
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- Do you have a hammer or a chisel?00:02:22.085
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- So I could cut it here through.00:02:24.704
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- For sure, we have.00:02:30.171
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- I have forgotten to tell you that I am also looking for my wife.00:02:37.542
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- We came here by car, she has got lost, she always gets lost00:02:40.895
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- when I am locking up the car door.00:02:44.600
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- She is small. She has the keys of the safe.00:02:47.112
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- Don´t you happen to see her? She is small, very small.00:02:57.203
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- They don´t say anything.00:03:05.323
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- What a miracle to see what it is not visible.00:03:09.960
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- I am asking to persuade me.00:03:19.954
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- I am asking to persuade me.00:03:21.501
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- That it is being communicated and that it will be used.00:03:29.956
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- But it is my own story, I am interested in.00:03:35.084
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- I will verify it with my look.00:03:39.419
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- The night is coming.00:03:48.035
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- The new world is awaking.00:03:51.083
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- Everything has gone through something.00:03:56.539
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- I will hold it for you.00:04:17.138
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- Thanks.00:04:18.657
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- You are welcome.00:04:19.999
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- I was offered to exhibit my final work00:05:57.640
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- in 2012 at the end of my studies.00:06:03.359
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- I decided it that the work is not meant for the gallery.00:06:07.442
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- There was another option, I wanted to cooperate with somebody.00:06:12.130
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- And I thought of Jirka.00:06:20.579
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- I think we think the same way, our artworks are formally similar.00:06:22.963
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- We decided to prepare a common project for the Gallery Jelení.00:06:26.299
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- Our skype call on the theme of subjectivity was the most important one.00:06:30.817
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- We spoke about subjectivity in art, in its radical state,00:06:39.616
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- what it means, how to work with it...00:06:47.520
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- we got to the themes such as absence and disappearance.00:06:52.293
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- We wanted to explore the situation00:07:01.904
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- when somebody from outside comes into the specific environment as the gallery00:07:09.673
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- he comes into the artificial space from its own nature00:07:15.088
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- and starts to usurp the space for him00:07:19.798
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- using gestures and declamations.00:07:22.782
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- We start to write a script which could be used here.00:07:28.464
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- This gallery is visited most during the exhibition opening.00:07:38.241
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- We worked with conformity of a gallery visitor.00:07:44.101
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- The viewer is a kind of medium for us,00:07:48.342
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- a substance we presumed and it works in a status quo.00:07:53.440
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- I think the Gallery Jelení is specific for its spectrum of visitors.00:08:02.426
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- Here is a text describing all the event.00:08:10.456
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- It was our proposal of the ideal event which could arise.00:08:19.999
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- In fact the situation really came truth.00:08:22.955
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- Now we should look back whether it fulfilled our expectation.00:08:26.964
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