And now for something completely different 5

• Kunsthalle Bratislava was founded in 201600:00:04.476
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• and we have repurposed its space00:00:08.661
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• for a new exhibition space named Kunsthalle Lab.00:00:12.859
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• This space, which is in a manner of speaking00:00:16.898
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• situated in the street, can be characterized00:00:20.977
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• as a window gallery. It’s completely transparent00:00:24.957
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• and visible from outside, from the street.00:00:28.868
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• We are trying to focus mainly on exhibition projects00:00:31.914
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• with a potential to operate programmatically00:00:35.950
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• with public space and all the passersby and so on.00:00:39.808
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• That is one plane of its spatial and dramaturgical concept.00:00:44.050
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• The second one focuses on the type of visual art00:00:48.100
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• we would like to present here,00:00:52.379
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• that is the newest and the most contemporary00:00:56.554
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• forms of visual art that are in one way or another00:01:00.900
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• interactive, participatory or their medium is light00:01:05.010
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• or sound and so on.00:01:09.271
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• The current exhibition project presents artworks00:01:12.586
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• by Slovenian art couple, Nika Oblak and Primož Novak.00:01:16.429
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• What we liked about them is that even though it is not00:01:20.339
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• a site-specific art their work is capable to communicate00:01:24.010
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• with audience meaning the general public00:01:28.333
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• by the virtue of their playfulness, humor00:01:32.579
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• and visual appeal.00:01:36.638
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• But their focal point00:01:40.884
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• lies in the critique pointed at the contemporary00:01:45.110
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• capitalist society.00:01:49.455
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• The box generally renders00:02:11.882
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• the environment of the screen or media reality00:02:16.019
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• where there is a funny,00:02:19.944
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• or even absurd performance taking place,00:02:24.182
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• when they kick the wall or they knock00:02:28.235
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• on the screen and so on. The object thus moves00:02:32.457
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• into 3D reality, into space,00:02:36.719
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• but as a rule only to a certain context.00:02:40.946
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• There is always a border, a limit the action,00:02:44.913
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• however absurd it is, never crosses,00:02:48.948
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• so the artworks highlight the limits00:02:52.974
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• posed by the media reality.00:02:57.160
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• The exhibition shows one entirely new piece00:03:06.566
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• created by the artists for this show00:03:10.543
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• or let’s say this is the first time they show it.00:03:14.654
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• It’s called Border Mover, where Primož Novak00:03:18.819
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• moves around in an indifferent,00:03:23.003
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• unspecified space of the screen,00:03:27.312
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• or, to be precise, the box,00:03:31.303
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• by his bodily action he moves it00:03:35.694
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• but always only to a certain limit.00:03:39.792
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• After a short walk it comes back to the starting point00:03:42.923
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• which serves as a beautiful metaphor00:03:45.871
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• of the limits of media reality.00:03:48.999

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