VIDEOKEMP 2010 + KAREL KUNC: EXCAVATION

• First I will say it in general.00:00:14.864
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• Then I will be more concrete.00:00:17.868
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• Videocamp is essentially a bizzare exhibition event00:00:20.868
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• which mainly presents videoart as artistic medium.00:00:29.663
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• It is not meant as a festival of videoart,00:00:39.273
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• Since the videos are the most portable medium00:00:43.107
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• and financially and with respect to installation it is quite easy.00:00:50.178
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• Most of all, it is possible to exhibit the works together00:00:54.630
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• without them being distracting to each other.00:01:00.630
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• What makes this event even more bizzare is that00:01:04.630
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• the artists stay here in the tent city.00:00:09.301
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• In fact, the people who camp here also represent a large part of the public.00:01:18.111
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• I admit that this is a kind of community thing here.00:01:22.722
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• People here reflect on each other's work.00:01:25.145
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• This is the sixth year, for the first time here in Kutná Hora.00:01:28.982
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• Actually I didn´t want to organize it any more.00:01:31.965
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• I thought it had become a routine.00:01:36.695
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• On the other hand, I think it makes sense to do it here.00:01:43.841
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• The first videocamps were built around the idea00:01:49.441
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• of a kind of institutional parasitism, where the artists00:01:53.129
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• plug in to the electrical power supply of some gallery institution00:01:56.449
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• and camp there for a day, as part of their independence.00:02:00.521
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• They put up an exhibition in a public space,00:02:06.625
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• camp, present their works, free to come and go at will.00:02:11.370
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• It should pose as a counterbalance to the festival Creepeee Teepee.00:02:18.100
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• This should do.00:02:28.276
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• Enough of my rambling...00:02:30.963
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• We can edit it, cut some...00:02:34.748
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• Thanks a lot.00:02:40.109
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• The concept of the project is an absurd, spatial game00:03:05.000
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• based on me digging myself into the ground00:03:10.754
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• until I can no longer get out.00:03:15.443
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• I make these makeshift steps and then I would like to00:03:18.236
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• raze them and remain here for some time, imprisoned00:03:22.785
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• until somebody drops me a ladder.00:03:28.957
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• Is this all you want to tell us?00:03:37.264
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• Well, I will shovel the soil back in afterwards00:03:40.120
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• It is more of an absurd game, spatial anecdote.00:03:44.160
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• It is not meant as landart.00:03:48.879

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