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Start Up Position

How can a curator influence an art platform? What degree of manipulation is in the work presented? How is the position of a curator perceived in the context of exhibitions?
These three pivotal questions gave rise to the two-year project The Position Of a Curator, reflecting and discussing a curatorship in the Czech Republic. The project will take place in the course of year in the form of debates, lectures and a conference presented in the culture factory Armaturka in Ústí nad Labem.
The project starts with the exhibition Start Up Position presenting a curator’s play and harmony over contemporary art. The selection of artworks defined by a simple clue – new perspectives of medium and form, guided by the curators Lenka Sýkorová and Romana Veselá who have a clearly decided and easily distinguishable area of their interest, will be supplemented two weeks later with Karina Kottová’s point of view focused on making exhibitions’ and artworks’ mediation to a viewer more intensive. Jan Krtička will take over the baton at the beginning of April. In his work he deals with overlaps into a curatorship.

artistsAleš Čermák, Viktor Valášek, Petr Malina, Markéta Jáchimová, Petr Dub, Johana Střížková, Jan Pfeiffer, Perkof Natalie, Michaela Spružinová, Jakub Cabalka, Fuksová Kristýna, Libor Novotný, Aleš Loziak, Jakub Červenka
curatorsLenka Sýkorová, Karina Kottová, Jan Krtička, Romana Veselá
placeGalerie Emila Filly
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castMarkéta Jáchimová, Lenka Sýkorová, Johana Střížková, Natalie Perkof, Michaela Spružinová, Libor Novotný, Aleš Loziak, Romana Veselá
cameraDominik Žižka
soundDominik Žižka
editingDominik Žižka
interviewDominik Žižka
translationAdéla Dörnerová
categoryReports
published8. 5. 2015
languageČesky / English
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Start Up Position
Her activities are interwoven with a complex web of collective bodies of various transient groups or platforms. Since 2009 she has been a member of A.M.180., a team already behind the cult festival of contemporary music Creepy Teepee, taking place every year in the medieval landscape of Kutna Hora. Like the festival itself, is not just a spectacle of monolithic music projects, but also a place for performances and visual arts, as well gallery A.M.180, where Timková works as co-curator, is a place of hybrid cultural activities.