JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ AWARD FINAL 2009
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
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- At least for so many viewers have come.00:00:25.397
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- This year we don´t have laureates, but semifinalists out of whom00:00:27.956
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- the finalist will be chosen on 12 November.00:00:35.489
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- This year 42 authors and collectives participated00:00:42.728
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- in the first round of Jindřich Chalupecký Award.00:00:48.326
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- These people were nominated or they enrolled themselves.00:00:51.869
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- Out of them the jury´s chosen 5 current finalists.00:00:56.834
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- Tomáš Džadoň is an author who00:01:00.712
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- is being talked about a lot during 2 or 3 last years.00:01:04.173
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- The fourth floor.00:01:07.449
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- I´ve wanted to do something more emotional00:01:14.587
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- that would not be represented00:01:18.680
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- by an object or by something that would be placed in the centre.00:01:21.021
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- However, I´ve wanted to express my own feeling.00:01:24.304
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- That´s why it is called00:01:27.000
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- "I´ve lost an instruction..."00:01:29.280
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- It´s me who is saying this.00:01:31.224
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- There is a message in the lift00:01:33.437
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- that a viewer may take, read and play my role.00:01:36.922
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- In one part of the gallery, there is a storage of my natal flat.00:01:40.487
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- Or of my parents´ natal flat.00:01:44.829
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- There is a large empty space00:01:47.208
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- where the title should be placed, at least in my opinion.00:01:50.089
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- And there is a video of a bidirectional river.00:01:52.774
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- It runs upstream and downstream in one riverbed.00:01:54.382
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- All of that underlines the impossibility.00:02:01.182
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- As it is impossible to build a prefab or to find the way back into the past,00:02:03.286
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- it is also impossible to have a river that would run upstream and downstream.00:02:06.554
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- David Böhm and Jiří Franta are also known in the Czech art scene.00:02:10.330
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- It is called "58",00:02:20.864
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- which is the sum of our ages.00:02:24.769
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- Because this exhibition is also limited by the age.00:02:27.929
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- It´s been a tool we´ve taken.00:02:32.756
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- We´ve taken 58 graphites,00:02:35.283
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- and we´ve spent them all.00:02:36.704
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- We´ve created the black area, which00:02:38.777
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- is just an adjoining effect.00:02:42.808
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- Our main idea has consisted in spending all graphites.00:02:44.593
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- Then there are 7 UV torches.00:02:49.180
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- Viewers may use them to be able00:02:52.103
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- to see the rest of the space.00:02:54.082
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- On the white walls,00:02:56.274
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- It is more intimate like this.00:03:01.820
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- It can´t be seen everything at once,00:03:05.337
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- which was very important to us.00:03:07.366
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- We wanted to express the intimacy of the act.00:03:08.963
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- We want people to be alone while reading it.00:03:11.393
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- Alena Kotzmanová participates in this competition for the second time.00:03:15.097
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- She participated in 2005 for the first time.00:03:22.339
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- Despite the fact that we know her only for her photos and moving pictures,00:03:25.985
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- she presents her material installation here.00:03:31.881
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- The theme of my installation is the possibility of realization of dreams.00:03:38.062
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- The motif here is the ship.00:03:42.817
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- It can be understood as a metaphor of life.00:03:45.197
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- The ship refers to the sea,00:03:48.061
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- a symbol of distance, non-fulfilment of desire that00:03:49.837
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- at the moment when it´s missing,00:03:53.370
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- is substituted by a substitutional model00:03:54.829
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- because the desire starts us up emotionally.00:03:58.191
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- In our case, it could be "cottaging".00:04:01.255
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- Another motif is the cottage.00:04:03.894
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- It doesn´t only relate to the Czech Republic,00:04:06.241
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- but also to the interior in general.00:04:07.453
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- Other important moment represent the postcards.00:04:09.361
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- They are messages sent from seacost to interior.00:04:15.324
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- I am interested in postcards,00:04:18.123
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- in the phenomenon of travelling picture00:04:19.752
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- with the motif of the sea.00:04:22.230
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- In older photos there is a wave or horizont.00:04:24.432
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- There is no date or place.00:04:27.713
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- It is purely projection area for imagination.00:04:31.574
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- Petra Herotová is relatively00:04:36.714
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- the least known from the finalists.00:04:38.256
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- Although she is experienced00:04:40.800
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- not only as an artist, but as a curator in Blansko.00:04:42.936
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- I think she is the one who can surprise most.00:04:48.343
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- My project within Jindřich Chalupecký Award00:04:53.936
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- is called after me, "Petra Herotová".00:04:58.297
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- It is a study on me.00:05:01.062
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- It relates to her life, to all the places where she was.00:05:08.484
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- I met Petra Herotová in July this year.00:05:13.544
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- But I´ve known her for a few years.00:05:17.327
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- Last year during the Herot´s family meeting00:05:25.261
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- I was given her contact.00:05:28.788
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- So I´ve decided to ask her.00:05:30.211
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- I´ve thought it could be interesting to present myself through00:05:32.157
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- somebody who has something in common with me00:05:36.727
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- as I have realized later.00:05:40.394
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- Finally, Jiří Skála.00:05:45.602
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- He is in the final for the third time.00:05:47.128
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- It is a cycle of 8 texts that00:05:50.025
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- are treat differently.00:05:55.315
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- I want to show that literature is so immaterial00:05:56.422
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- that it can be distributed constantly,00:06:02.247
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- and the artefact is represented only by the design.00:06:05.691
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- The text is outside of the gallery system.00:06:10.230
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- Only its appearance is inside of the system.00:06:14.001
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- This part may be very difficult for viewers.00:06:16.466
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- Cause there is lot of reading.00:06:21.054
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- However, it is not only about text.00:06:23.058
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- There is also a video.00:06:24.853
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- Together with the other things, it forms a nice unity.00:06:26.563
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- That´s why I have here "yes or no" video.00:06:31.270
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- That´s the tendency of mutual consent or refusal.00:06:33.902
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- Opposite you can see something similar.00:06:44.739
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- I feel that the jury has chosen quite conservatively.00:07:00.150
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- There are artists that work with various media00:07:07.151
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- that are of different generations.00:07:10.185
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- It may be seen as a fair overwiev of Czech scene at this moment.00:07:15.874
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- Of course, it is difficult to speculate who would be the winner.00:07:22.448
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- It cannot be predicted.00:07:28.121
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- Mostly we, ourselves, are very surprised by the result.00:07:30.049
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- This we´ll know on 12 November.00:07:35.574