Together / Everyone for Himself
The exhibition by Juraj and Ivan Dudáš is their first collaboration since 2011. Their work oscillates between political and social activism. Mostly they spontaneously react to current events in global or regional context. For this exhibition they have decided to reflect upon tense and tangled political situation in Ukraine. The show consists of the interpretation of events that took place in recent weeks and months. One object, two interactive video installations, text, performance. The artworks are left to come across without a commentary; a viewer becomes both their observer and participant. In case of the installations one can (but doesn’t have to) manipulate the image. The authors’ interpretation lies within the symbolism of exhibited artworks.
- We are at the Synagogue - Centre of contemporary art00:00:11.893
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- where there is a show of Dudáš brothers about to open.00:00:15.696
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- It is their first collaboration since 2011.00:00:19.793
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- For some time now they have been known00:00:23.941
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- for their social and political activist work.00:00:28.057
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- In their current performance and exhibition they decided to reflect00:00:31.149
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- the situation in Ukraine. The Ukraine is our eastern00:00:34.217
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- neighbor and after decades of relative peace in Europe00:00:37.628
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- there is a threat of much bigger global conflict.00:00:41.145
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- We wanted to reflect the conflict00:00:45.244
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- that is taking place there in a creative way.00:00:49.513
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- For this show I have made two interactive installations.00:00:53.622
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- The Boxing is actually a video installation00:00:57.563
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- depicting faces of the main political participants00:01:01.597
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- of the Ukrainian conflict like Putin, Yatsenyuk,00:01:05.707
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- Barroso and Obama.00:01:09.441
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- The video installation upstairs is called Maidan,00:01:13.632
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- it utilizes archive image and sound in a creative way00:01:17.005
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- applying the method of found footage.00:01:20.798
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- The Maidan project consists of images of Maidan00:01:24.755
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- showing the dying people wounded by sniper shooting.00:01:28.814
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- And the picture projected on the floor can be vacuumed.00:01:35.256
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- The video concept using texts is my affection00:01:48.081
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- for a certain structuralism,00:01:52.406
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- that is which activities are actions00:01:56.724
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- and what are the reactions to them,00:02:00.826
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- and what arouses action and what arouses reaction.00:02:03.649
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- I have come up with the concept of Pentagon00:02:07.283
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- around 2010 but it hasn't been realized until now, in 2014.00:02:11.380
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- It is an interactive object you can enter and observe00:02:15.482
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- people and what is going on outside,00:02:19.570
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- so you become a voyeur of sorts and vice versa.00:02:22.710
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- Pentagon is a specific symbol, a symbol of power,00:02:26.265
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- pentagon that watches over us and follows us,00:02:30.603
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- it provides us with certain impulses00:02:34.223
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- and some of the impulses it takes.00:02:37.437
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- Why Ukraine? Probably because throughout history the art00:02:40.752
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- has always reflected its own political and social00:02:44.762
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- situation and maybe also because artists these days00:02:47.735
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- can't lack certain activism and certain capability00:02:52.078
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- to reflect what is going on and what are they going through00:02:56.271
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- - that simply can't be.00:03:00.461
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- I hope it won't fire.00:03:09.699