Thank You for Accepting Our Participation
The title of the exhibition can be the sentence pronounced out of resistance to both kinds of oppression – outer and inner. This sentence being originally a slip we consider to be a beneficial reflection in such situation, in which one asks himself a question, why the normalisation remained in existence for such a long time, or more precisely, what is its heritage we have to learn to live with.
The exhibition combines the works of classics in their typical genres (statue, object, installation, photography) and the works of middle and younger generation of artists mainly with their videos.
- Thank You for Accepting Our Participation00:00:04.710
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- We can see there are two kinds of oppression - outer and inner,00:00:24.373
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- according to the artist´s respond to one or another kind,00:00:27.257
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- we can distinguish two different strategies - the respond to the outer00:00:33.459
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- oppression is often a manoeuvre helping to gain detachment and avoid00:00:37.914
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- the oppression coming from outside by mocking its source or describing it00:00:46.019
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- to express one´s resistance.00:00:53.982
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- This type of artistic works of the group Pode Bal, Malík, Jozef Jankovic,00:00:58.495
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- Zbynek Baladran´s video Rozprava (The Debate) dominate the exhibition00:01:05.728
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- with the title Thank You for Accepting Our Participation.00:01:16.039
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- The works resulting from subjective demands oriented inwards,00:01:21.892
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- when one contemplates more on himself rather than on nature of the world.00:01:27.256
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- These are the works of Jan Mancuska or this installation of Stano Filko.00:01:35.960
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- We can see here several thematic segments in the synagogue of Žilina,00:01:44.216
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- one big segment is an artistic commentary to the reality of the period.00:02:10.931
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- Another segment is experimental, e.g. in the work of Ilona Németh00:02:17.261
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- Osem mužov (Eigth Men), it is an oral history study.00:02:22.032
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- Another segment represents an interpretation of history, especially00:02:24.802
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- the work of Jiri Suruvka and video of Tomas Rafa - together they give00:02:32.261
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- a model of society development after a cataclysm in which the civil and00:02:45.069
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- and individual frustration is accumulated and which can be abused by00:02:55.063
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- an ideological movement and it ends up with hatred and violence.00:03:00.291
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- The exhibition is quite complex as there is a combination of generations00:03:29.057
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- and media as well as segments of Czechoslovak history.00:03:36.136
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- Today we can see much political art, it is also gaining popularity,00:03:46.363
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- so I find interesting to see the ambivalence when something becomes political00:03:54.915
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- only based on circumstances under which it is exhibited or communicated,00:04:08.606
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- but at the moment of its birth, it was not so, and vice versa -00:04:14.868
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- something that was supposed to be political is weekend by the shift of context00:04:17.586
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- and it holds civil or politically irrelevant position.00:04:24.239