BY THE WAY

• I always try to react on the space I am in.00:00:13.422
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• When I was preparing myself for my stay in New York, it was my first time,00:00:21.243
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• I asked my friends for the necessary information.00:00:26.932
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• They told me that the city was very busy00:00:36.954
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• and that there was no time to create something.00:00:39.880
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• I thought that Polaroid would be suitable for the documentation of my stay there.00:00:44.041
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• It is something like drawing.00:00:53.947
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• Here you can see the series from Polaroid I did there.00:01:00.333
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• The old leather suitcase is also a part of the exhibition.00:01:05.798
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• I didn´t make it readable for a viewer.00:01:10.562
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• I just put it here.00:01:15.358
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• It may look strange.00:01:17.031
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• Anybody may ask why it is here, why it is in the pictures.00:01:18.989
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• It is a part of the photos, my stay and my journey.00:01:25.456
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• This is my suitcase I use when I travel round Central Europe.00:01:35.517
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• I use it for my clothes, even now there is my clothes.00:01:50.820
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• I bought it in a flee market in Stuttgart in 199500:01:56.703
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• when I was studying there.00:02:01.316
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• I liked it very much when I saw it, and00:02:04.758
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• I told myself that I would take it once to New York.00:02:08.299
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• Going to New York was my goal.00:02:12.023
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• I reached my dream in spring 2009.00:02:16.691
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• The suitcase represents a model in my photos00:02:21.922
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• in a similar way like people take photos of them00:02:24.555
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• when they are on holiday.00:02:37.280
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• In my case, it is not me who stands in the pictures, but my suitcase.00:02:40.238
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• In fact, it is about a fulfilled dream of my suitcase.00:02:42.989
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• This video like the photos don´t make me a photographer.00:02:47.734
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• Neither the video is considered to be a videoart.00:03:01.083
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• It is just a medium that I use to express my feelings.00:03:14.382
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• It may be inspired by a few English classes I had00:03:20.981
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• before I went to New York.00:03:28.800
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• In the video I am spelling a poem by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.00:03:49.727
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• I think it is clear.00:03:59.244
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• It is about my feeling in New York, about my attachment and temptations.00:04:02.724
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• I felt it was a great city and I wanted to stay there.00:04:08.380
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• I could feel my attachment.00:04:11.626
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• I was there when there was an event in ICP.00:04:13.819
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• It is called "Open Studios".00:04:17.716
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• Each artist opens his studio for public.00:04:22.012
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• It is very popular. It is usually crowdy.00:04:31.356
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• I know about this, I brought my things there.00:04:39.778
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• I met there a curator who lives there.00:04:54.075
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• He was interested in my things.00:05:00.748
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• He suggested to make another exhibition.00:05:04.008
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• It was very quickly organized.00:05:08.671
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• He managed to organize it in the gallery PS 122.00:05:10.830
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• It was a one-day exhibition.00:05:24.468
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• Silvina Arismendi was a co-curator.00:05:28.432
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• I presented there not only my drawings on our history,00:05:35.218
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• but also my diary records.00:05:44.832
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• I didn´t make such a mix so far.00:05:49.965
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• In the end, I thought why not.00:05:55.159
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• I was in a different surroundings.00:05:58.604

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