Voiaj
You proceed with caution like you would when by mistake entering a stamp collectors convention where the spoken language is postal codes. The common denominator is the voyage/ trip, the journey that matters more than the destination itself because on the way you find the belongings of others that went on the same route, and when you integrate them in your own collection you do it as a semi-religious gesture, they’re like the relics of an epiphany. These things can be summed up (probably) only in the unlikely balance between the incense flavored religious pop-culture and Coca Cola, digital thunder like sounds and souvenir-objects found under the (Christmas) tree.
- We wanted an exhibition with only objects, installations,00:00:26.807
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- video and nothing 2D.00:00:29.709
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- Basically objects installations and video.00:00:34.326
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- We thought we should be self-organized00:00:37.283
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- and I think this really mattered.00:00:39.142
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- We didn’t resort to a curator,00:00:40.097
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- we chose the works on our own,00:00:41.452
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- we installed them and this somehow gave us00:00:42.836
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- more satisfaction than other projects did.00:00:45.728
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- We used the White Night of the Galleries as an00:00:50.059
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- occasion, as a deadline.00:00:51.533
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- We had to do this anyway, and thought why not ?00:00:53.273
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- ..in the Night of the Galleries00:00:56.586
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- when the public is more active.00:00:58.733
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- It wasn’t conceived as “let’s do a PROJECT,00:01:00.097
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- let’s have a CONCEPT”.00:01:03.813
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- Even the name was chosen in twenty seconds.00:01:06.990
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- Voiaj / Trip.00:01:11.335
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- And we’ve put together a series of works that,00:01:14.653
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- I don’t know, represent us somehow,00:01:17.886
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- or are coherent in the context of this Trip.00:01:22.322
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- But without curators and without the desire of00:01:28.388
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- absolute success that would make you00:01:32.683
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- accompany the exhibition with lots of text.00:01:35.765
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- It was kind of relaxed and…00:01:43.430
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- Without empty concepts that have to be00:01:45.406
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- backed up by a ton of empty text.00:01:47.800
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- The ground rule was the dominance of00:01:50.564
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- the visual and the meaning can be00:01:54.106
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- spotted afterwards by a careful viewer.00:01:57.959
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- And it was the most attentive public00:02:00.490
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- we have ever seen.00:02:01.896
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- They came and stayed for hours.00:02:03.372
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- Made measurements in their minds...00:02:04.895
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- Like real-estate agents.00:02:07.127
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- We were honored to have so much public.00:02:08.588
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- Even the police came, and this honors us every time00:02:11.175
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- because we know they are big fans of art and come00:02:13.046
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- to actively back up our openings.00:02:15.992
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- This means so much to us.00:02:18.216
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- Especially because the opening was00:02:19.682
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- in this “underground like” space00:02:21.885
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- the police intervention was welcome.00:02:23.723
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- Clearly paid to intervene.00:02:29.296
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- And it was really interesting that00:02:31.781
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- they bought works.00:02:34.152
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- They are some kind of Maecenas of the arts.00:02:36.695
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- We are so glad to have works in their collections.00:02:39.154
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- (Yes) They also consume…art.00:02:42.344
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- All of us try, at one point, at least at the beginning00:02:48.526
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- to do something different.00:02:52.132
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- We have this wish to do something else.00:02:53.707
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- Sometime we don’t settle doing something00:02:56.349
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- that has been done, but to do it right.00:02:59.801
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- We do something different.00:03:01.432
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- And… sometime it turns out right.00:03:03.130
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- It’s a very useful step this “do it on your own”00:03:05.192
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- because you become aware of your own limits.00:03:08.828
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- And it was an occasion to show two films00:03:10.905
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- that were not made especially for this occasion,00:03:15.747
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- but thanks to it I got a feed back and it was good.00:03:19.456
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- It was how it should have been.00:03:25.393
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- This is actually a follow-up of a series,00:03:35.370
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- a long-term project I’ve been working on00:03:37.499
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- that contains these works and probably the next ones too.00:03:38.644
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- It’s… this area of investigation of these religious heroes,00:03:41.933
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- the superstars of religion, and practically some00:03:46.194
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- Christian Superstar related games,00:03:49.502
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- actually involving the Elvis of Christianity…00:03:53.714
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- And this is how I’ve constructed my statement.00:03:59.062
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- There are elements I want to reuse in other works,00:04:03.107
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- like this metal cross.00:04:05.473
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- There are some remittent religious motives,00:04:07.937
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- just like a sort of pyramidal game.00:04:13.535
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- I refused all the explaining for these objects.00:04:17.414
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- (Very good!) Yes.00:04:19.508
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- I didn’t use any text.00:04:21.218
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- (Larisa is anarchy!) Pure anarchy!00:04:22.742
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- I don’t think they need to be explained.00:04:25.536
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- What you see is all there is.00:04:28.572
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- And that’s it.00:04:31.153