A French equivalent of a place for night disco party is boîte – a case or a box in other words. It isn’t necessary to present a discotheque in boxes of a room size today, the place is deforming and transforming into a play with an effect somewhere in the middle of a silicon heaven of our homes. The outside locks inside, the light fades away, the body movement disappears. We are being drifted not by an obtrusive melody of popmusic but by a certain kind of inaudible rattle, we let the rectangular altars on our desks to illuminate us, we dance inside, perfectly connected with the outer world. The stress is also being laid on design and applied function. These fast changing architectures substitute functions of wardrobes, storages, purposeless archives, they personify the vision of the future. However when mechanically uncovered, their masks will be dropped, the memory will be erased and a black hole of the physical underside will be activated. Only dust as a metaphor of the lost faith will remain.

 

artistsJan Maštera, Viktor Vejvoda, Martin Bražina, Jakub Geltner, Michal Pustějovský
curatorsKatarína Chlustiková
placeAVU in Prague
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castKatarína Chlustiková
cameraMartin Bražina, Jakub Geltner
soundMartin Bražina, Jakub Geltner
editingMartin Bražina, Jakub Geltner
interviewMartin Bražina, Jakub Geltner
translationZuzana Frantíková
published24. 1. 2012
languageČesky / English
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Throughout his life, Chalupecký promoted and defended new artistic trends and was interested in general questions of art, especially the meaning of art in modern society. He was a defender of art in connection with life. In today's terms, we could perhaps use the term activist or engaged art. He did not believe in the purely aesthetic function of art and culture in general.