Reports

Private Nationalism #3

Private Nationalism, the series of four exhibitions and four debates in Open Gallery in Bratislava is a follow-up of the international project comprising of four eponymous shows in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Germany that took place in 2014. Every series of the project focused on a different theme. #1 – identity – patriotism – nationalism, #2 – national symbols – freedom of art – flag scandal, #3 – idea of statehood – borders – political extremism, #4 – fear – origin of state – Ukraine and Russia. The focus of the report lies in the third series of the project.

artistsRavasz Jonathán, Barbara Lubich, Gabriela Zigová, Michal Moravčík, Bálint Szombathy, Société Réaliste, Daya Cahen, Rita Varga, Lucia Nimcová, Tomáš Rafa, Rokko Juhász, Csaba Nemes
curatorsIlona Németh, Rokko Juhász, Fedor Blaščák
placeOpen gallery
tags
castIlona Németh
cameraPeter Barényi
soundPeter Barényi
editingPeter Barényi
interviewPeter Barényi
translationPalo Fabuš
categoryReports
published5. 4. 2015
languageČesky / English
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Private Nationalism #3
In the poetics of identities, it is important to return to a certain point of zero, which is also a breaking point. My self is breaking through certain limitations and constantly fighting against itself. It is always in the process of becoming, and this process is always accompanied by a certain disjointedness. I am nobody and at the same time I am everybody. I belong to the anywheres, to those who are at home everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I don’t know if that is a reason to be sad.
How and to what extent can we understand the land, and what do we all know and not know about it? To whom does it belong, and how do we change it, for better or worse? How can we express and capture in human, rather than statistical, terms, both the visible and invisible transformations that the land undergoes, both locally and globally, with regard to the entire biosphere and climate?