Troublemakers
Adéla Babanová studied the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2000-2006) in the Studio of New Media I, Studio of Conceptual Art and Studio of Graphic Arts II. She graduated with a multimedia project Interview with Sylvia Plath, which foreshadowed her next creative direction. Babanová works with literary forms, elements and procedures used by radio and television genres such as inscenation, interview or TV debate. From the very beginning she collaborates with duo of screenplay writers Vojtěch Mašek and Džian Baban, who also participates in the music. Although she works with professional film crew and actors, she presents her videos and audiovisual works mostly in a form of installation, which is also the case of Troublemakers exhibition in the Jiri Svestka Gallery.
- So this is something that00:00:06.635
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- I'm interested in in every work of mine:00:00:08.692
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- how to achieve immortality, how to00:00:11.259
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- keep in memory things that would00:00:16.224
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- otherwise disappear - perhaps.00:00:21.258
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- Trinkalka is a figure from the past00:00:25.069
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- that I learnt about from my great-uncle00:00:28.479
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- who told us her life story.00:00:31.961
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- She was a young girl in the 1940s00:00:35.239
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- who ran away to America, she emigrated.00:00:38.716
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- There she got married to an American,00:00:41.579
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- his name was Trink.00:00:43.065
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- After some years, she came back -00:00:44.757
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- - surprisingly - to Hrnčárovce in Slovakia -00:00:47.795
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- alone - she was alone, without the husband.00:00:51.420
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- I was really intrigued by Trinkalka00:00:56.516
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- because I am positive that00:01:01.839
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- she killed her husband.00:01:03.551
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- So there was a gap in her life story00:01:06.124
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- and my great-uncle00:01:12.299
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- who lived next to her in Hrnčárovce00:01:15.001
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- tried to figure out what had happened00:01:18.674
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- in America - why she came alone00:01:22.565
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- without the husband.00:01:25.167
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- And I found a video recording of him00:01:26.607
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- telling the story and I began to fill in00:01:28.429
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- the gaps - with visual material.00:01:33.677
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- I began to look for photographs00:01:34.899
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- from Hrnčárovce, from our family album,00:01:37.348
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- photographs from that period, and00:01:40.481
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- I began to create photomontages,00:01:42.577
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- trying to imagine Trinkalka,00:01:44.815
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- the way she looked.00:01:47.703
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- And I'm not even saying in the exhibition00:01:49.869
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- either that she murdered him or00:01:52.954
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- that she didn't - it is about a mystery00:01:55.193
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- that could have happened00:02:03.300
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- but did not have to.00:02:05.657
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- It was the first woman in Hrnčárovce who00:02:07.234
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- left her husband.00:02:10.087
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- As long as someone is on your mind,00:02:11.815
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- this person cannot die.00:02:13.810
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- She lives in your memory and in the memory00:02:17.356
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- of other people.00:02:20.942
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- The title of the second part of00:02:22.881
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- the exhibition is00:02:24.024
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- "I Have Been Thirty for Sixty Years."00:02:24.834
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- It's a video projection made up of00:02:26.595
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- three parts. It's a story about00:02:30.506
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- the artist Eva Weber who decided00:02:34.353
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- not to get old. So she's 30 years old,00:02:38.897
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- everyone else around her is getting old00:02:41.896
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- and things around her00:02:44.102
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- are falling apart. She lives00:02:44.980
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- with her husband who is now already00:02:46.428
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- in a house that is slowly falling00:02:51.816
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- underground and I document it00:02:54.553
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- in a short video portrait. And00:02:59.626
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- in the second part, we can see00:03:02.579
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- a family photo album with Eva Weber00:03:05.787
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- depicted at different stages of her life00:03:09.041
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- and one can see she really00:03:12.598
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- doesn't get old. And the third part00:03:13.360
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- is a 3-D animation where you00:03:16.806
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- see a fall of the villa underground00:03:18.675
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- and it is a vision of the movement00:03:21.854
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- of the villa during the next one hundred,00:03:26.889
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- one hundred fifty years until it will00:03:29.400
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- gradually disappear underground.00:03:32.258
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- The dance is cut up - they will never00:03:34.852
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- finish the dance, or even the figure.00:03:38.151