Guys and Girls Who Don’t Mind

• "Boys and girls who don't mind"00:00:02.072
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• - So there is the luxury of time in that the embroidery lasts...00:00:16.110
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• - That too. I don't know. When I embroider, it is so00:00:23.253
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• on the borderline of being art that when I invest my time in it00:00:28.519
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• it's a trip, because it is so borderline.00:00:33.848
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• Welcome to the exhibition "Boys and girls who don't mind".00:01:11.447
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• They are represented here by Jan Karpíšek, Viktor Takáč,00:01:16.920
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• Veronika Dolanská, and Sam.00:01:21.993
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• Also there is Daniela Mikulášková, and Milada Hynková, who are00:01:25.154
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• unable to be here today.00:01:29.937
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• With this exhibition we are opening a discussion on the00:01:32.895
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• topic of "Embroidery in visual expression and its figurative meanings in works00:01:36.225
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• of contemporary artists.00:01:40.593
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• - Did you have any issues with the fact that this exhibition00:01:52.834
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• is focused on embroidery? - No.00:01:56.385
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• - And what do you think about it now?00:01:59.834
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• - Now I think this is a great space and a great project.00:02:03.786
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• This whole building. And that I am slightly outside,00:02:09.954
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• like Viktor, being little further away from00:02:14.772
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• the core of the concept. But as I understand it,00:02:19.083
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• we still belong here. So it's fine.00:02:23.995
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• - I was thinking I enjoy this theme because I like re-contextualization00:02:32.444
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• of video in different forms. So I thought of this as a challenge,00:02:36.454
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• which one of the videos could bear the closest likeness00:02:41.276
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• to the embroidery, and I have chosen this older work00:02:46.271
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• which seemed to me most representative at the moment00:02:50.869
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• of the film language, or video art language.00:02:55.190
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• The motif of repetition and of layering.00:03:11.341
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• I used to say that in my paintings I always show00:03:16.911
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• to other people the most important things I have experienced in my life.00:03:22.366
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• Some spiritual path, or some concrete discovery or state00:03:27.401
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• that seems to me most important, most significant.00:03:32.800
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• It keeps being this way, I guess it cannot be otherwise.00:03:41.105
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• Nowadays I try to do ordinary things, with no added abstractions00:03:48.234
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• or unnecessary spiritual concepts.00:03:52.836
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• Just, simply, drawing monkeys.00:03:58.163
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• So we went to visit Milada as part of the residence from00:06:03.280
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• the gallery Sam 83. She showed us there00:06:08.856
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• how she makes it, something I didn't know.00:06:13.144
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• I couldnt't have imagined the way it was made.00:06:21.530
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• We had the chance to try it right there and I was00:06:28.810
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• the only one who did, and that piece up there is the result.00:06:33.946
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• There was some guy here just before telling me how much it annoys him00:07:55.002
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• the way those little girls are used in it.00:07:59.609
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• It's good that it annoys him but, on the other hand,00:08:04.092
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• when I deal with something that I refer to as social, or touching00:08:08.931
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• upon social themes, I think that I know what I'm doing,00:08:13.728
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• given my age, and, most of all, those are my children.00:08:19.030
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• Using a child like: go somewhere, film those poor kids, show it publically,00:08:23.548
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• effect those children's lives, then, in another 20 years, dust it off,00:08:27.823
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• show it again, again effect those lives... you know, I couldn't do that.00:08:32.725
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• I wouldn't point my camera at Nikola if I hadn't lived my whole life with her,00:08:41.060
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• and she is, of course, here with us today,00:08:48.390
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• and the responsibility of working with somebody who,00:08:53.518
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• at the time, isn't exactly problem-free, like Nikola back then,00:08:58.031
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• or now, for that matter, then it's not the best,00:09:02.902
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• in my opinion, to approach it like: let's do a little movie, a photo,00:09:07.413
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• thinking we're not responsible for what it does to that person00:09:11.696
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• later on in life. And I think we are.00:09:16.384
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• So in that film I have used people I have known for a long time00:09:20.909
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• and I wouldn't dare to edit it differently.00:09:25.240

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