JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ AWARD FINAL 2009 on Artyčok

Tomáš Džadoň, Petra Herotová, Alena Kotzmannová, Jiří Skála, Jiří Franta and David Böhm have created a new project for the exhibition which, in most cases, responds directly to the gallery space.

It is a very important award.00:00:22.874
00:00:22.874
At least for so many viewers have come.00:00:25.397
00:00:25.397
This year we don´t have laureates, but semifinalists out of whom00:00:27.956
00:00:27.956
the finalist will be chosen on 12 November.00:00:35.489
00:00:35.489
This year 42 authors and collectives participated00:00:42.728
00:00:42.728
in the first round of Jindřich Chalupecký Award.00:00:48.326
00:00:48.326
These people were nominated or they enrolled themselves.00:00:51.869
00:00:51.869
Out of them the jury´s chosen 5 current finalists.00:00:56.834
00:00:56.834
Tomáš Džadoň is an author who00:01:00.712
00:01:00.712
is being talked about a lot during 2 or 3 last years.00:01:04.173
00:01:04.173
The fourth floor.00:01:07.449
00:01:07.449
I´ve wanted to do something more emotional00:01:14.587
00:01:14.587
that would not be represented00:01:18.680
00:01:18.680
by an object or by something that would be placed in the centre.00:01:21.021
00:01:21.021
However, I´ve wanted to express my own feeling.00:01:24.304
00:01:24.304
That´s why it is called00:01:27.000
00:01:27.000
"I´ve lost an instruction..."00:01:29.280
00:01:29.280
It´s me who is saying this.00:01:31.224
00:01:31.224
There is a message in the lift00:01:33.437
00:01:33.437
that a viewer may take, read and play my role.00:01:36.922
00:01:36.922
In one part of the gallery, there is a storage of my natal flat.00:01:40.487
00:01:40.487
Or of my parents´ natal flat.00:01:44.829
00:01:44.829
There is a large empty space00:01:47.208
00:01:47.208
where the title should be placed, at least in my opinion.00:01:50.089
00:01:50.089
And there is a video of a bidirectional river.00:01:52.774
00:01:52.774
It runs upstream and downstream in one riverbed.00:01:54.382
00:01:54.382
All of that underlines the impossibility.00:02:01.182
00:02:01.182
As it is impossible to build a prefab or to find the way back into the past,00:02:03.286
00:02:03.286
it is also impossible to have a river that would run upstream and downstream.00:02:06.554
00:02:06.554
David Böhm and Jiří Franta are also known in the Czech art scene.00:02:10.330
00:02:10.330
It is called "58",00:02:20.864
00:02:20.864
which is the sum of our ages.00:02:24.769
00:02:24.769
Because this exhibition is also limited by the age.00:02:27.929
00:02:27.929
It´s been a tool we´ve taken.00:02:32.756
00:02:32.756
We´ve taken 58 graphites,00:02:35.283
00:02:35.283
and we´ve spent them all.00:02:36.704
00:02:36.704
We´ve created the black area, which00:02:38.777
00:02:38.777
is just an adjoining effect.00:02:42.808
00:02:42.808
Our main idea has consisted in spending all graphites.00:02:44.593
00:02:44.593
Then there are 7 UV torches.00:02:49.180
00:02:49.180
Viewers may use them to be able00:02:52.103
00:02:52.103
to see the rest of the space.00:02:54.082
00:02:54.082
On the white walls,00:02:56.274
00:02:56.274
00:02:56.274
It is more intimate like this.00:03:01.820
00:03:01.820
It can´t be seen everything at once,00:03:05.337
00:03:05.337
which was very important to us.00:03:07.366
00:03:07.366
We wanted to express the intimacy of the act.00:03:08.963
00:03:08.963
We want people to be alone while reading it.00:03:11.393
00:03:11.393
Alena Kotzmanová participates in this competition for the second time.00:03:15.097
00:03:15.097
She participated in 2005 for the first time.00:03:22.339
00:03:22.339
Despite the fact that we know her only for her photos and moving pictures,00:03:25.985
00:03:25.985
she presents her material installation here.00:03:31.881
00:03:31.881
The theme of my installation is the possibility of realization of dreams.00:03:38.062
00:03:38.062
The motif here is the ship.00:03:42.817
00:03:42.817
It can be understood as a metaphor of life.00:03:45.197
00:03:45.197
The ship refers to the sea,00:03:48.061
00:03:48.061
a symbol of distance, non-fulfilment of desire that00:03:49.837
00:03:49.837
at the moment when it´s missing,00:03:53.370
00:03:53.370
is substituted by a substitutional model00:03:54.829
00:03:54.829
because the desire starts us up emotionally.00:03:58.191
00:03:58.191
In our case, it could be "cottaging".00:04:01.255
00:04:01.255
Another motif is the cottage.00:04:03.894
00:04:03.894
It doesn´t only relate to the Czech Republic,00:04:06.241
00:04:06.241
but also to the interior in general.00:04:07.453
00:04:07.453
Other important moment represent the postcards.00:04:09.361
00:04:09.361
They are messages sent from seacost to interior.00:04:15.324
00:04:15.324
I am interested in postcards,00:04:18.123
00:04:18.123
in the phenomenon of travelling picture00:04:19.752
00:04:19.752
with the motif of the sea.00:04:22.230
00:04:22.230
In older photos there is a wave or horizont.00:04:24.432
00:04:24.432
There is no date or place.00:04:27.713
00:04:27.713
It is purely projection area for imagination.00:04:31.574
00:04:31.574
Petra Herotová is relatively00:04:36.714
00:04:36.714
the least known from the finalists.00:04:38.256
00:04:38.256
Although she is experienced00:04:40.800
00:04:40.800
not only as an artist, but as a curator in Blansko.00:04:42.936
00:04:42.936
I think she is the one who can surprise most.00:04:48.343
00:04:48.343
My project within Jindřich Chalupecký Award00:04:53.936
00:04:53.936
is called after me, "Petra Herotová".00:04:58.297
00:04:58.297
It is a study on me.00:05:01.062
00:05:01.062
It relates to her life, to all the places where she was.00:05:08.484
00:05:08.484
I met Petra Herotová in July this year.00:05:13.544
00:05:13.544
But I´ve known her for a few years.00:05:17.327
00:05:17.327
Last year during the Herot´s family meeting00:05:25.261
00:05:25.261
I was given her contact.00:05:28.788
00:05:28.788
So I´ve decided to ask her.00:05:30.211
00:05:30.211
I´ve thought it could be interesting to present myself through00:05:32.157
00:05:32.157
somebody who has something in common with me00:05:36.727
00:05:36.727
as I have realized later.00:05:40.394
00:05:40.394
Finally, Jiří Skála.00:05:45.602
00:05:45.602
He is in the final for the third time.00:05:47.128
00:05:47.128
It is a cycle of 8 texts that00:05:50.025
00:05:50.025
are treat differently.00:05:55.315
00:05:55.315
I want to show that literature is so immaterial00:05:56.422
00:05:56.422
that it can be distributed constantly,00:06:02.247
00:06:02.247
and the artefact is represented only by the design.00:06:05.691
00:06:05.691
The text is outside of the gallery system.00:06:10.230
00:06:10.230
Only its appearance is inside of the system.00:06:14.001
00:06:14.001
This part may be very difficult for viewers.00:06:16.466
00:06:16.466
Cause there is lot of reading.00:06:21.054
00:06:21.054
However, it is not only about text.00:06:23.058
00:06:23.058
There is also a video.00:06:24.853
00:06:24.853
Together with the other things, it forms a nice unity.00:06:26.563
00:06:26.563
That´s why I have here "yes or no" video.00:06:31.270
00:06:31.270
That´s the tendency of mutual consent or refusal.00:06:33.902
00:06:33.902
Opposite you can see something similar.00:06:44.739
00:06:44.739
I feel that the jury has chosen quite conservatively.00:07:00.150
00:07:00.150
There are artists that work with various media00:07:07.151
00:07:07.151
that are of different generations.00:07:10.185
00:07:10.185
It may be seen as a fair overwiev of Czech scene at this moment.00:07:15.874
00:07:15.874
Of course, it is difficult to speculate who would be the winner.00:07:22.448
00:07:22.448
It cannot be predicted.00:07:28.121
00:07:28.121
Mostly we, ourselves, are very surprised by the result.00:07:30.049
00:07:30.049
This we´ll know on 12 November.00:07:35.574

Here you can express yourself. (*required)