JCHA 555 Václav Magid: Contradiction hits back. Transcendental knockabout comedy in 12 acts.
The finalist, who studies and analyses the relationship between art, philosophy and the social sphere, is going to conceive his presentation as a speech in which he is going to introduce the basic methods of his work combining video, music and drawing.
In his speech called „Contradiction hits back. Transcendental knockabout comedy in 12 acts.“ the finalist, Václav Magid, is going to explain how he works with video, music and drawing, how he for instance sets to music political slogans while maintaining all the rules of musical composition and harmony and the way he consequently transfers them onto paper. A similar installation is to be seen at present in Veletržní palác in Prague at the exhibition of this year´s finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2013. The speech he will give in Plzeň will therefore be based on a broader context and will deal with different topics – such as dodecaphonic composition with view to the contemporary social state of affairs, the meaning of theory of colours in art in relationship to institutional criticism or the search for the place of art in relationship to theory and practice.
- I'm afraid I'm going to speak for too long while you'll freeze.00:00:15.261
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- I feel you're already freezing cold...00:00:20.645
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- Well, we decided for lectures or meetings in public space,00:00:22.899
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- so we have to face the emerging consequences,00:00:30.950
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- so lets freeze together and I hope I'm not going to chill you even more by my speech.00:00:34.511
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- I didn't want to make a presentation with projecting pictures of my work00:00:44.603
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- I was rather interested in giving a lecture00:00:50.214
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- and speaking about contemplations or problems I deal with when working,00:00:56.019
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- I wanted to present inspirational sources and think about the conditions I work in00:01:05.857
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- and that affect the way I work and how is my work presented.00:01:16.374
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- The first chapter has a working title "Formal logic and social conflict",00:01:19.901
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- where I try to focus more on the idea of contradiction00:01:25.824
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- which I suggested to be the main medium I work with.00:01:32.537
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- The main feeling I tried to explain00:01:37.747
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- is the feeling of contradiction towards myself.00:01:41.444
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- I'm also aware that I'm inconsistent in what I think and do,00:01:48.652
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- one defies the other one.00:01:53.904
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- On one hand I want to create worthwhile and interesting artwork00:01:56.436
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- on the other one I'm a left thinking person,00:02:02.814
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- with a specific idea of how art should work in the society,00:02:10.541
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- how it should be financed an so on...00:02:14.133
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- As for my involvement in the Chalupecký Award,00:02:16.172
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- I accepted the nomination and find myself in situation00:02:19.305
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- I could realize my work thanks to the support of private sector partners00:02:25.905
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- and thus I contribute to the legitimation of certain economic models00:02:36.386
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- I do not consider ideal.00:02:43.928
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- I left out a lot but never mind...00:02:48.439
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- Well you don't mind but I do...00:02:53.911
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- Then I briefly presented the technique I used at my recent installation in Veletržní Palace00:03:06.450
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- what tradition it followed up and what was it all about.00:03:13.296
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- I deal with the issue of relation and art autonomy,00:03:17.814
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- a formal approach to art towards social conditions00:03:22.645
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- the art emerges from.00:03:28.424
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- I spoke for a quite long time about problems related to work,00:03:30.244
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- I differentiated work as an artwork or self-creation as human being00:03:35.974
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- from estranged work, thus making money or fulfilling tasks in the society00:03:44.854
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- then I focused on different strategies of contemporary art00:03:50.833
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- or different ways of how artists today try to conform to these tasks00:03:57.464
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- or how they respond to our economic and political situation00:04:02.802
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- various trends that might be interesting but I find them unfamiliar.00:04:06.115
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- In the end I tried to imply the relation to the foundations of modernistic tradition00:04:11.533
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- I mentioned Kant and early-German romanticism00:04:20.432
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- and the concept of aesthetical experience or irony00:04:23.732
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- as a kind of a crutch or a clue guiding me in my art reflection00:04:27.050
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- and that suggest what I create or how my artwork should function.00:04:36.326
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