Two Blind Biddies
Magda and Eva have decided to see the world in a different way, to learn more, without an orientation based on eyes – it is a new experience and new behavior. Perception of the surrounded world was left on the ears, touch and smell that seemed to have sharpened in the new situation … maybe there is still time for a game but it will be mainly based on examining themselves, their positions and work within the status of contemporary artists and art audiences. It is a new situation where everything is as always, in their places (gallery space , walls, light) and they are all here as always (artists, curators, “squadron”, friends ), and yet, this time different
Through a new perspective permeates the content of the exhibition – objects in space directly , sometimes indirectly connected with the characters and symbols occurring in Nursery Rhymes blind man’s buff. According to Petr Nejedlý of the Czech Language Institute, folk poetry and paintings should be read like a rhythmic poem that lost its now firmly established correspondence to the original mythological motifs, and so we can naturally be seen in their true beauty and pure poetry of images and rhymes. Eva and Magda create their own poetic environment where the worked with fragile , delicate objects, while ” nevýstavním ” installing relativize what is typical in the ” normal operation of the gallery ” – zaretušování any dirt or selecting the proper composition exhibited objects … Submitted we minimalist installation ” blind ” where you analyze for themselves the possibilities of artistic work and its limits ( free sewing eye examinations , handling delicate objects , their unexpected breakage ) . Element live action is in fact present in the exposed objects in the game with the audience and themselves at the time of opening.
Markéta Vinglerová
- "Where're you going, you blind hag?00:00:01.500
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- To the corner. What's in the corner?00:00:03.300
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- A rooster. What's in the rooster?00:00:05.300
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- A ball of wool. What's in the ball of wool?00:00:07.300
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- A needle. What's in the needle?00:00:09.300
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- Nothing. So come catch me00:00:11.300
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- you blind hag." (nursery rhyme)00:00:13.300
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- "Two Blind Hags" Eva Jiřička and Magdalena Kwiatkowska00:00:16.073
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- etc. gallery Nov 14 - Dec 8, 201300:00:19.713
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- Well, the idea was that when we can't see00:00:23.477
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- we are still here at the opening00:00:26.513
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- but in a different way.00:00:28.752
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- We expected it to be different,00:00:31.345
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- and it is different.00:00:34.030
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- It is a bit of an experience for us.00:00:36.977
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- This exhibition here is conceived00:00:39.449
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- with the idea of us not being able to see00:00:41.954
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- yet we still somehow executed it00:00:45.001
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- so I think there is a connection there.00:00:47.698
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- Basically we chose a few objects00:00:50.313
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- which relate to that nursery rhyme00:00:52.705
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- to illustrate the fact that we won't00:00:56.066
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- be able to see anything here.00:00:58.400
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- We then approached prof. Nejedlý who wrote00:01:00.213
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- his own interpretation of it.00:01:02.681
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- "Blind Man's Buff - the nursery rhyme00:01:04.618
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- combines mythological motives which have been00:01:06.882
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- de-mythologized for centuries. The uniting elements of00:01:09.141
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- nursery rhymes are the principles of rhythm and rhyme.00:01:11.521
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- The character of the blind man as a creature (dis)abled by00:01:13.850
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- disgrace of the deity is a realization of an ancient00:01:16.161
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- thought concept in which an "anomaly", ie. ..."00:01:18.969
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- We had not planned that we will00:01:20.805
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- make a show of it and grasp at everybody here.00:01:23.993
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- We just wanted to try it00:01:26.346
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- and to try to behave normally,00:01:28.336
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- but it is quite impossible.00:01:30.385
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- I don't feel like I'm behaving abnormally.00:01:32.171
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- You said that you won't see00:01:34.089
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- what you have done here, is that right?00:01:36.745
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- No, we meant that we won't see00:01:39.194
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- what is happening here at the opening.00:01:41.658
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- Did you do these works blindfolded?00:01:44.017
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- Blindfolded, yes.00:01:49.826
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- Will you come and see tomorrow?00:01:53.449
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- Well, we wanted to take some photos first,00:01:55.994
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- to see if anyone is manipulating with anything -00:01:59.018
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- I mean, since we can't see it, you can actually move things around.00:02:03.085
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- To remake it, complete it...00:02:07.289
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- We move it around ourselves, too.00:02:09.529
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- It is more difficult to talk like this,00:02:12.666
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- as I don't want you to grasp at me too much.00:02:15.281
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- I know you quite well so I have no need to confirm.00:02:19.722
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- But the people here were rather quiet00:02:24.329
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- and you feel them around you somewhere.00:02:27.802
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- and then you must grasp around you.00:02:30.503
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- I must admit I couldn't quite tell00:02:34.035
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- how many people were here.00:02:36.481
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- But it does get warmer here at times.00:02:40.545