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The Gallerists 08 - Petr Hájek

English CC art funding
placeThe Chemistry Gallery
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English CCart funding
directingMark Ther
castPetr Hájek, Jan Skřivánek
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
editingJan Vidlička
interviewJan Skřivánek
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categoryProfiles
published12. 10. 2018
languageČesky / English
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The Gallerists 08 - Petr Hájek
Tomáš Mašín
The structure of the Tamagotchi video is based on the alternation of simple animations and texts. The animations remind us of early video games or simple computer games. For the texts he used the Chicago typeface which was designed for Apple Computer and was used between 1984 and 1997 in the operating system user interface. Unlike the main stream of Czech video making in the mid- 1990s, mostly based on performative elements or artistic unusualness, Mašín´s approach is radically different not only in terms of aesthetics but also conception.
Radosavljevic Vasiljevic Darka
When do ethics become more important than aesthetics? How to believe in a utopia that art can heal and change the world? Can a cooperative movement save the world from a disaster? These are the questions with which a group of artists have been grappling for over 20 years, resisting the political and social environment in Serbia by way of subversive artistic practices.