Inter-view
The exhibition surveys the work of contemporary Slovak and Czech authoresses who reflect current issues such as body, corporeality, identity, relationships (children, family) and work with family memoirs.
There is a rule, that when there is an exhibition of authoresses, there is an automatic presumption of a project associated with feminist matters. The aim of the exhibition is not to take feminism as the only one basis but not to even define it in a negative way.
- The exhibition presents the works00:00:15.639
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- of 20 contemporary00:00:18.818
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- Czech and Slovak female artists00:00:21.210
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- of the young and the middle generation.00:00:24.347
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- They deal with themes like human body,00:00:27.665
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- corporeality, family, relationships,00:00:31.165
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- pregnancy, or family memory.00:00:35.011
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- These are all themes00:00:38.042
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- typical of the feminist theory.00:00:40.542
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- Concepts like feminism or feminist art00:00:44.211
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- only started to emerge here after 198900:00:47.981
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- and they often had00:00:52.247
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- rather negative connotations,00:00:54.901
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- even for the exhibited authors00:00:57.611
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- whose works are often interpreted as feminist.00:01:00.527
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- I think that these negative connotations00:01:05.561
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- still persist.00:01:09.061
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- And that's one of the reasons00:01:12.433
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- why I initiated this exhibition.00:01:15.433
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- This exhibition is not only00:02:13.318
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- about the presentation of the works00:02:15.802
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- but it also includes interviews00:02:20.391
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- with the artists.00:02:23.391
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- The first group of questions00:02:26.154
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- center around the exhibited works00:02:29.269
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- and the second part of each interview00:02:32.881
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- focuses on feminist art in general,00:02:36.351
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- on feminist art and gender.00:02:41.401
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- Most authors came to the conclusion00:02:44.405
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- that the feminist movement is important00:02:47.932
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- because it changed the status of women00:02:51.848
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- in society,00:02:57.169
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- which was an enormous benefit.00:03:00.622
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- However, not all the authors00:03:03.840
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- were happy about their works00:03:06.840
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- being interpreted as feminist,00:03:09.840
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- while others had no problems00:03:12.840
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- with accepting such interpretation.00:03:15.509
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- Only one of them00:03:19.009
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- admitted openly to considering herself00:03:22.009
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- a feminist author.00:03:25.509
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- But there was also one artist00:03:29.059
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- who categorically refused00:03:32.059
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- any connection of her works with feminism.00:03:35.059
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- For me, this was a proof of the fact00:03:39.563
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- that some of these authors00:03:44.730
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- may not deal with these themes00:03:47.730
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- in the feminist context knowingly,00:03:50.578
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- but they are still able to accept00:03:53.678
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- a possible feminist interpretation.00:03:56.883
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- In some of the interviews, it was said that00:04:00.087
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- feminism is seen by the general public00:04:03.997
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- as something quite negative.00:04:07.252
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- One person even said00:04:11.351
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- that the word sounds very militant00:04:13.851
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- and that she doesn't want to be put00:04:16.625
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- into that category.00:04:19.851