1848
The spontaneous exhibiting intervention in the foyer of Stredoslovenská galéria (Central Slovak Gallery)reacts to the social situation happening during the recent weeks. It´s a respond to the growing dissatisfaction of people in the society, which revolted against corrupted socialist state 24 years ago, but the society didn´t have any real vision, so it has just established assumed model of capital and parliamentary consensus, where the state aparatus acts as a deputy for oligarchy and sacrifies the general privatization of the public. The goal of the little exhibiting intervention „1848“ is by means of particular works of art to put into the clear context simplified relationships regarding the society from which we require to be solidaristic and egalitarian society.
The themes reflecting the issue: the concept of national state; nationalism; treating of socially weak; manipulating the middle class, protest, poverty; new idea.
- The exhibition was made at the end of last year in cooperation with Mirka Keratová.00:00:17.401
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- The impulse was the result of the elections in district of Banská Bystrica,00:00:23.439
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- when the leader of extremist party was elected known for00:00:32.403
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- various declarations close to neonacist ideology.00:00:41.684
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- So the exhibition was a spontaneous intervention into gallery space.00:00:47.461
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- As it was not planned, we needed to respect its space and technical limits.00:00:54.611
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- But our goal was to react to this situation through visual works of art00:01:01.425
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- and to built up more transparent exhibited situation,00:01:13.503
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- which deals with essential social problems and stereotypes00:01:16.687
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- to which the nacionalist and xenophobic agenda got connected.00:01:25.498
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- The title of the exhibition is a reference to the revolution as well as00:01:30.617
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- to the archaic rhetorics of contemporary public discourse.00:01:42.631
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- So the title of the exhibition can be perceived ambivalently.00:01:53.606
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- The themes are the concept of national state, nationalism, treating of socially weak,00:02:15.874
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- manipulating the middle class, protest, poverty and new idea.00:02:25.084
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- These are the essential social problems.00:02:30.470
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- Then there is another feature - the manner in which the exhibition is installed.00:02:40.953
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- There is an architecture built up consisting of installation socles,00:02:48.933
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- which may evoke city, fortress or a barricade and the documentary films of Tomáš Rafa00:02:55.206
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- are screened on the barricade.00:03:06.255
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- Then there are videos projected on the flat screen and installed in an unusual manner,00:03:16.830
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- directly on the floor. Two videos are installed in this way -00:03:24.362
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- a video of Tomáš Rafa Sport Walls, and a video of Erik Sikora For the Homeless.00:03:28.629
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- This manner of installation enables to keep certain distance,00:03:39.731
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- so the spectator can have a view from above, but when one wants to see it more consistently,00:03:44.419
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- one needs to bend down or to sit down on the floor, so it makes the theme closer.00:03:52.344
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- The third form is a usage of texts - there is a notice board,00:04:03.623
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- whih is composed of articles with philosophical, sociological and statistical news thematizing poverty.00:04:20.425
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- We purposely used an office xerox copy as a form of information00:04:34.362
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- and the notice board is placed on glass door which is also an architectural and communicative feature of the gallery.00:04:40.700
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- The spectator leaves the gallery through this door.00:04:53.599