Kunsthalle – general report about the state of the institution
The exhibition presents a large-screen six-channel projection set in a site-specific hexagonal ground plan of the central exhibition hall of the Dom umenia
in which eighteen protagonists from the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak republic, artists and art theoreticians hold a discussion. On the facade of the building there is an inscription KUNSTHALLE made of large polystyrene letters, which gives the impression of the “desired” institution.
- The Kunsthalle project00:00:06.333
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- "The overall report on the institution situation"00:00:07.478
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- is a site-specific situated in the House of Arts in Bratislava.00:00:09.531
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- It was founded in 196500:00:14.588
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- also thanks to money of Slovakian artists00:00:17.820
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- and it was meant to be an institution of Kunsthalle sort.00:00:21.627
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- We took over the whole building00:00:26.124
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- and placed Kunsthalle on its frontage,00:00:29.248
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- it's a kind of "ready-made" of many labels,00:00:32.733
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- from one side there is written House of Culture00:00:36.107
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- then National education centre,00:00:39.829
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- House of Arts, Goldsmith's00:00:41.498
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- and other labels00:00:43.321
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- and we fictionally turn the building00:00:46.858
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- for one month into the Kunsthalle.00:00:49.699
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- In the central room I create00:00:54.910
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- a choreographed multilateral interview I direct as an author.00:00:58.022
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- There are eighteen protagonists talking,00:01:04.886
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- they are either Ministry of Culture clerks00:01:10.305
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- or art theoreticians and artists who took part in the attempts to establish Kunsthalle in Slovakia.00:01:16.906
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- They try to retell the story since its beginning in 1997,00:01:25.763
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- when there was the appeal of Slovakian artist and theoreticians,00:01:31.476
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- and going to 2011 when precedent Danubiana arose...00:01:36.745
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- The prevarications why such institution can't be established in Slovakia00:01:44.011
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- say that there is a lack of finance and legislation00:01:49.908
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- thus Danubiana arose over night.00:01:52.977
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- The project is a dispositive of the Ministry of Culture operation,00:02:05.399
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- it shows how they periodically try to deal with this issue,00:02:09.085
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- they suggest certain solutions all the time,00:02:14.251
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- and at the end of the tenure they again argue against00:02:20.259
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- as there are no funds and legislation.00:02:25.850
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- In the interviews they mention that00:02:29.237
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- it's a kind of activity demonstration for the activity itself,00:02:33.775
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- but it shows that the art community fortunately works well,00:02:37.613
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- but I think it isn't only Slovakian particularity,00:02:42.359
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- the existence of interest groups00:02:46.348
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- or the inability to agree on the name of the director,00:02:49.271
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- which I find quite premature00:02:53.896
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- as we still don't have any legislation or finance reserved for the institution.00:02:57.045