Spaces of Narration
The idea of the exhibition is based on certain common tendencies in number of artworks, that stand on the edge of installation art, processional remnants and consideration of narrative structures. The viewer here becomes the active junction, the reader of a fragmentary text, collecting signs to create his own meaningful construction. The artwork itself, or the structure of signs thus created becomes the plot scene – standing between text narration and theater mimesis.
- We made a project in a curator cooperation00:00:01.038
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- with Caroline Krzyszton in the Gallery NoD.00:00:06.038
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- I could say that the project is nothing special.00:00:09.822
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- It deals with a phenomenon,00:00:14.269
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- which has been present in art scene for a long time.00:00:17.231
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- We wanted to highlight the current question, namely, that is00:00:23.270
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- nowadays, various approaches to visual artworks,00:00:27.621
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- even those that before were not considered suitable, are being discussed.00:00:35.895
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- In our case, it is the narration that has been seen negatively.00:00:44.681
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- Within the artistic context,00:00:48.336
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- the narrativeness has always been seen as pejorative.00:00:50.300
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- The theme of narration is something paradoxical.00:00:54.489
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- I think we liked to show artworks, which are experimental,00:01:01.283
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- because they deal this theme in the context of visual arts.00:01:05.019
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- Surely, it has its parallels in experimental00:01:12.210
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- prose or film discourse of the second half of the 20th century.00:01:14.050
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- The field of fine arts exhibited here represents a meeting point.00:01:21.376
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- You can find here artworks dealing with texts,00:01:28.516
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- by different approaches,00:01:31.053
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- works on narration, differently stratified narration and00:01:35.723
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- works stressing formal perspectives.00:01:39.236
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- Together with Caroline, we chose some artists,00:01:48.768
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- who work with texts, from the literary perspective,00:01:53.570
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- for example, we chose Arnaud Maisetti,00:01:58.552
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- a french writer, working with the theme in the context that could be close00:02:01.399
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- to the Czech experimental prose of the 1960´s.00:02:06.695
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- On the other hand, there are artists who work00:02:10.653
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- with the visual aspects of the narration where00:02:16.915
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- the story disappears and still the narration mechanisms are able to work.00:02:21.594
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- Then it deals with the context of a story and its limitation.00:02:26.030
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- In fact, the exhibition is presented quite analytically.00:02:29.870
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- On the other hand, we wanted to present the exhibition with humour,00:02:35.048
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- each work deals with the aspects I´ve just described,00:02:38.564
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- there are various media.00:02:43.960
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- In case of Miroslava and Vladimíra Večerová, in their video there is no story,00:02:49.427
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- there is the stress on sensual perception.00:02:59.832
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- Susanne Kass presents herself with an interactive performance,00:03:02.901
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- she is working here in her office,00:03:11.533
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- where she is mapping all the stories, and literary spaces she is living through,00:03:14.922
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- it´s a never ending process of mapping the context,00:03:22.924
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- its classification and archiving.00:03:27.228
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- Then Ivan Svoboda´s videoart, he has been working with narration,00:03:30.604
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- or Lenka Vítková, she takes account of gender aspects00:03:43.454
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- relating to the way of narration.00:03:50.990
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- Jan Pfeiffer works with the creation of a story by images, symbols and references.00:04:01.261
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- Milan Mazur, he operates with a diverted video narrativeness.00:04:13.486
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- The exhibition, as a complex, can be seen as a maze.00:04:42.532
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- As well as the exhibition logo, it is a vary net of ideas.00:04:44.837
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- Jan Šerých presents photos dealing with cycled narration.00:04:49.963
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- You can guess whether there is some narration,00:05:00.189
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- when it started, when it finished, how it happened.00:05:04.408
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- He also exhibits his traditional works with texts in the café.00:05:10.868
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- He shows wannabe senseless texts inspired by an English fairy-tale sentence.00:05:20.431
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- Actually, he demonstrates the intersection of formal deconstruction and meaning.00:05:33.173
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- The exhibition is not meant as a complete show of this theme,00:05:45.333
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- it may be rather considered as a touch of this theme,00:05:49.862
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- within the contemporary Czech art scene.00:05:52.271