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VIDEOKEMP 2010 + KAREL KUNC: EXCAVATION

videoart public space community performance

Curator Viktor Ćech presents Videokemp at GASK in Kutna Hora, the outdoor exhibition of contemporary video art now in its sixth year. Ćech aims to present contemporary art through this easily portable media in the environment of the traditional Czech summer camp. 

artistsAleš Čermák, Veronika Neumanová, David Hřivňacký, Marek Bureš, Matyáš Chochola, Tomáš Moravec, Mario Chromý, Michal Panoch, Helena Sequensová, Pavla Gajdošíková, Petr Krátký, Tereza Severová, Matěj Al-Ali, Sláva Sobotovičová, Guar Guma, Viktor Takáč, Ivan Svoboda, Vasil Artamonov, Martin Hrubý, Tereza Velíková
curatorsViktor Čech
placeGASK
tags
videoartpublic spacecommunityperformance
cameraEva Jiřička
soundEva Jiřička
editingEva Jiřička
interviewEva Jiřička
translationZuzana Frantíková, Martin Rozbroj
categoryReports
published12. 8. 2010
languageČesky / English
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VIDEOKEMP 2010 + KAREL KUNC: EXCAVATION
The departure point for “Prompted” is a shared fascination by the three invited artists and the curator for spaces of ambiguity opened up by aural works. The works selected for each of the artists configure the contrast that exist between an authorial voice framing an artistic experience and images recorded simply with live recording and surround sound.
What kind of contemporary artists come from Bosnia and Herzegovina? What kind of cultural figures did the generation of the upcoming artists in Bosnia have at their disposal, at the time of their “spontaneous cultural formation”, until they have (in)formally decided to become a part of the discourse of “the contemporary visual art”?
Petr Skala
His original creative processes applied to the then typical 16mm film (e.g. scratching, engraving, painting and application of chemical agents) were in fact close not only to foreign hand-made film but also to gestic painting and the material-orientated Art Informel.