Audio-visual Art

PLANT OF BABEL

migration digital art landscape
artistsJakub Nepraš
place_Neurčené město
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migrationdigital artlandscape
cameraJakub Nepraš
soundJakub Nepraš
editingJakub Nepraš
categoryAudio-visual Art
published7. 8. 2007
languageČesky / English
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PLANT OF BABEL
Vojtěch Sigmund, Karolína Kripnerová, Janek Rous
The project Bellevue di Monaco takes place in several buildings in the centre of Munich. The buildings were supposed to be demolished in order to build new luxury apartments there. However, the plan was thwarted by a group of activists and their guerilla reconstruction of one of the flats. Consequently, the migration crisis in 2015 incited the foundation of an official cooperative involving several hundred local residents who rented the houses and turned them into a multifunctional centre.
Minh Thang Pham
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.