OSKÁR ČEPAN AWARD 2010

• OSKÁR ČEPAN AWARD 201000:00:00.416
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• Who do you think will be the winner?00:00:04.055
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• Štefan Papčo.00:00:06.972
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• I don't know, but I want Štefan Papčo to win.00:00:09.326
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• I want Tomáš Džadoň to win.00:00:16.768
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• I was surprised by the selection00:00:19.504
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• but if I had to, I'd choose Štefan Papčo.00:00:22.652
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• The installation entitled "Existential Minimum"00:00:29.296
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• is a reflection00:00:34.589
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• on the relation between real, physical life00:00:38.629
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• and virtual life,00:00:42.490
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• connected with the surroundings.00:00:44.889
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• I created this object00:00:47.811
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• representing a basic element, a rock,00:00:51.669
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• in my perception.00:00:54.669
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• Its structure and appearance00:00:57.788
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• contain two basic aspects00:01:00.745
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• defined not only by the 3D visual style00:01:04.290
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• of computer games or cyberspace,00:01:09.036
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• but also by real rocks, real surroundings.00:01:12.335
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• This is how I'm trying to find the relation,00:01:17.155
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• the possibility of using the real world00:01:21.827
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• and the synthetic space together.00:01:25.537
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• The object is made of an old climbing wall00:01:28.786
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• that was used for 10 years.00:01:34.211
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• I really like the works of Pavla Sceránková,00:01:36.987
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• I like her sense for playing with objects.00:01:40.488
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• She knows how to work00:01:44.689
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• with the spirit of things and understand it.00:01:47.113
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• The general theme?00:01:51.711
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• I'm interested in perception00:01:55.024
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• in relation to memories00:01:58.775
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• and the reconstruction of the image00:02:02.083
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• caught in the memory.00:02:05.607
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• The starting point is always general00:02:08.632
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• but often leads to quite subjective results.00:02:11.467
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• Which artist should win the award,00:02:14.941
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• according to you?00:02:18.595
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• Dušan Záhoranský.00:02:21.529
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• I'd like to point out my latest work,00:02:26.339
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• this sculpture entitled "King of Old Slovaks".00:02:34.241
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• It is connected with a recent event00:02:41.374
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• that took place in Bratislava,00:02:44.874
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• the installation of the memorial00:02:47.874
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• of king Svätopluk.00:02:50.696
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• Most of my projects00:02:53.057
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• reflect the theme of the city,00:02:55.772
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• the life of the city and connected aspects00:02:58.827
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• like history, identity,00:03:02.489
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• sociological landscape, loneliness...00:03:05.014
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• My last project is entitled00:03:09.389
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• "Shrinking City, Expanding Memory".00:03:12.216
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• It reflects the phenomenon00:03:15.715
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• of shrinking cities in Eastern Slovakia00:03:18.400
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• through the story00:03:21.990
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• of an abandoned school building.00:03:24.705
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• Do you mean whether knowing a member00:03:27.565
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• of the jury might influence the result?00:03:30.414
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• Maybe. If the juror knows the artist,00:03:34.111
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• it may be an advantage00:03:37.647
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• because a simple review of a portfolio00:03:40.189
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• might be too rough to know the whole work.00:03:43.510
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• The juror who knows the artist00:03:46.967
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• might point out his name to the jury.00:03:49.931
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• But could this have an impact on the result?00:03:55.116
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• I also know some of them,00:03:59.555
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• maybe 3 out of 5 jurors,00:04:04.994
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• but it had no influence on the result.00:04:07.800
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• So knowing someone is not the main factor.00:04:11.397
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• I try to post-produce my own works.00:04:14.910
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• I reuse my old works00:04:18.775
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• from which I already untied myself00:04:24.443
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• so that I stopped hating them.00:04:27.659
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• In this case, there is this video00:04:31.858
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• based on time measuring.00:04:34.802
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• It is 5 minutes long and it contains00:04:39.266
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• one-second-long scenes00:04:42.544
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• from all my video tapes I could find.00:04:45.007
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• This is my way to handle relationships,00:04:48.732
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• or non-relationships.00:04:51.918
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• The title is "Me, without Relationship".00:04:54.795
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• It is about my relationship with the audience00:05:00.580
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• in the given situation.00:05:04.369
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• The competition has a big media coverage00:05:06.864
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• and we as artists are confronted00:05:10.628
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• with a non-informed public.00:05:13.763
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• So it's also about the responsibility00:05:18.637
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• towards the public, or the lack of it,00:05:21.758
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• because I have zero patience for this.00:05:25.174
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• I find very interesting00:05:29.621
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• the works of Cyril Blažo,00:05:33.941
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• XYZ, Boris Ondrejička, Denisa Lehocká.00:05:37.249
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• My tip for the winner was Jaroslav Varga.00:05:43.262
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• I think all the finalists00:05:48.387
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• and a good half of all the competitors00:05:51.335
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• know one or more members of the jury.00:05:54.844
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• To be honest, I think it's the same00:05:58.502
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• with the finalists of Turner Prize.00:06:02.148
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• They also know the jurors in person.00:06:05.184
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• It's not caused by our small scene.00:06:08.340
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• The art scene is always a limited space00:06:12.069
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• and the people certainly know each other.00:06:15.350

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