Ground Plan of Variability
The exhibiting project “Ground plan of variability” thematises the space transformation in relation to institutional frame of the gallery. It complicates the concept of gallery which becomes not only the place of exhibition, but also the place of exposing the phenomena happening out of its “ground plan”.
The motivation is to draw attention of the visitor to the marginalized phenomena happening in the gallery. Our effort is to intensify the sensibility to the exhibits which are not the part of classical exhibition plan, but they contribute to experience from space perception.
The artists participating on the project – Magdaléna Kuchtová, Daniel Dida, Juraj Gábor – work with real objects making part of the gallery. They modify the space and disrupt the traditional scheme of artifact perception by relocating and multiplying the objects. The work of art is replaced by real, trivial and utilitarian objects and through its perception the visitors can redefine the established attitude and behavior in the space of gallery.
- The aim of the exhibition The ground plan of variability is to thematize00:00:00.000
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- the institutional procedures of regional galleries, it is an effort aimed at00:00:07.891
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- meeting and discussing the practice and meaning of regional galleries,00:00:12.633
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- not only in Slovakia but generally. The aim was to present the functions00:00:23.428
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- of institutional galleries in the form of collective exhibition.00:00:28.066
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- The final form of exhibition was of great importance to me and other authors,00:00:34.461
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- it wasn`t supposed to be author`s exhibition, but the final installation00:00:40.333
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- was created as a result of collective discussion, so it was a collective work of art.00:00:45.243
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- The project began with discussions and side specific realization in Turiec Gallery.00:00:59.827
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- An ordinary installation was the first motive of the project, we thematized00:01:06.147
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- various artifacts used in ordinary installation work such as plinths, showcases,00:01:14.474
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- which we used rather in the process of emptying, so an ordinary artifact00:01:21.220
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- became an artifact exposed in the space of exhibition.00:01:27.274
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- The work with the archive was the second motive, we visited the archive00:01:46.754
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- in Martin several times before the exhibition was open and we looked through00:01:51.001
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- the archive of the gallery, we worked mainly with the photographs00:01:55.892
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- of 80`s which later became part of the exhibition grouped in thematic units.00:01:59.247
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- On these photographs we found interesting various motives,00:02:01.893
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- one of them was the motive of space variability.00:02:08.394
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- We tried to gather all the artefacts from the offices available00:02:20.284
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- for the exhibition and place them in the exhibition area.00:02:24.679
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- It was another motive - to point out the design of 80`s which is often00:02:29.917
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- rejected or pushed aside, so we brought it back to the exhibition area00:02:36.275
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- as an interesting and valuable artifact worth of taking notice of it.00:02:42.669
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- The third range was the motive of the space itself, our approach00:03:21.001
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- as we removed the lights and blinds which are normally there in the gallery,00:03:37.272
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- and this way we worked with motives of the design of second half of 80`s,00:03:43.456
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- as well as with the motives of an ordinary exhibition performance,00:03:49.938
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- and also we grouped particular motives into the composition to lead00:03:53.964
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- the visitor through the exhibition area, in one of the spaces there is a motive00:04:04.631
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- where the visitor is forced to go round the space and walk near the walls00:04:11.192
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- where the visitor is supposed to get into direct contact with the view00:04:19.316
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- out of the window and contact with the street outside the gallery.00:04:24.704