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“The language we speak, our opinions, our ability to turn on the lights and flush the toilet, even the way we express opposition and rise up against social conventions: we all learned this from others.” So do we owe them? And do others owe us? Barbora Kleinhamplová focuses on “debt” as a feeling constituted of the relationship between society and the individual. She traces the irrational background into an exemplary study of aggressive debt collection, where instead of payment installments she finds unscrupulous revenge.
- The exhibition of Barbora Kleinhamplová00:00:15.555
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- could be described best through the word "debt".00:00:18.257
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- Barbora focused on that term00:00:22.477
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- and she perceives it at many levels.00:00:25.436
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- The main level is the one we all usually feel and it's the economic one,00:00:28.537
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- when a person on the basis of an agreement with another person00:00:34.291
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- gets into debt and becomes a debtor00:00:39.878
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- and the other one becomes a creditor.00:00:42.303
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- Barbora follows the transmission of00:00:45.425
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- basic principles of economic thinking00:00:48.366
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- into our daily lives, imagination and language we use.00:00:52.103
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- On example of an extreme use or comprehension of a debt,00:01:00.500
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- she tries to reach a summary of debt perception00:01:08.323
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- as something pervading the society and its relationships.00:01:15.052
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- She mediates a story from 1974,00:01:21.029
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- when a young woman Olga Hepnarová00:01:26.291
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- killed eight people by running into them with a lorry.00:01:31.311
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- In one of her testimonies she gave to the police,00:01:38.503
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- she said she had been induced by a debt00:01:42.093
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- the society owed her and wasn't able to pay back00:01:48.776
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- and her act became a monstrous execution00:01:55.445
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- or claimig the debt back.00:02:01.125
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- These two levels of the debt are mediated through audio,00:02:05.423
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- there are two videos in rather symbolical terms00:02:11.776
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- showing a moment of a contract conclusion00:02:15.564
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- and a photograph, the viewers can recognize what's on it,00:02:20.540
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- but can't see it properly,00:02:26.122
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- because to see it well, they would have to stand about 29 metres from it,00:02:31.214
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- which is impossible here.00:02:36.735
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- This optical principle is called "circle of confusion",00:02:40.195
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- and Barbora used it as a certain metaphor00:02:46.298
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- of the impossibility to see neither the whole nor the detail00:02:51.642
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- of all the levels it's bound in reference to the debt.00:02:56.861