Audio-visual Art

RAHOVA

socialism documentary strategy urbanism architecture

David Možný´s work may be seen as a critical document on the themes of architecture and urbanism. He has been inspired by Romanian housing estate called Rahova that belongs to the biggest one in Eastern Europe.

umělciDavid Možný
místoCzech Republic
tagy
socialismdocumentary strategyurbanismarchitecture
kameraDavid Možný
zvukDavid Možný, Michal Marianek
střihDavid Možný
kategorieAudio-visual Art
publikováno26. 4. 2009
jazykČesky / English
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RAHOVA
Zbyšek Sion, Petr Lampl, Jan Steklík + 10 more
In their openness – in terms of both authorship and chronological delimitation – they are happenings in the purest sense of the word, although this term is rarely applied to the Crusaders’ activities.
If we ignore the footage of Vladimír Boudník in Jaromír Pergler’s 1956 film Action in the Streets of Prague, then the oldest known cinematic record of Czech performance art are Rudolf Němec’s films from the early 1970s.
Josef Bolf, Petr Malina, Pavel Kappel + 23 more
The curators displayed in glass show-cases toys belonging to forty artists, art theoreticians and architects who grew up in the 1970s and 80s. When we look back we realize that the exhibition was partly a serious and partly an ironic commentary of this kinship and an advance signal of the advent of the period of normalization which became a basic source for the work of a number of Czech artists after the year 2000.