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postcolonialism
Jan Rousek, Tomáš Vobořil, Ondřej Doskočil
Words that become popular in the world of art often quickly fall from one side to the other. The words alone are not to blame. Some of them have an imaginative power which surpasses their real meaning. They become an incantation whose weight of imagination tilts the words over the edge of depletion. Decolonisation is one of them.
Jan Rousek
The author considers the video as a part of the decolonisation process within the framework of the history of Czechoslovak cinema. His conceptual method of work is based on the deconstruction and re-interpretation of original scenes from Czechoslovak films, e.g. Křik (Jaromil Jireš, 1963), Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze (Dušan Klein, 1984) and Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntag (Věra Chytilová, 1992). All these films feature stereotyped black characters.
Ondřej Doskočil
Ondřej Doskočil knows the weight of inherited political layers of the black metal genre as well as of the problems contained in musealisation and sensation craving colonization of subcultures by marketing ideology. As an insider and a musician he can also distinguish, untangle and give voice to the symbol systems inside of this extreme metal subgenre that would otherwise not speak to uninvolved people at all, or that would not even be heard over the all-encompassing noise. The format of the mobile phone shot "exhibition walkthrough" could confuse while detecting what is the medium he refers to.
Kader Attia
Kader Attia deals with colonial and post-colonial history and sensitively unfolds the complicated and “imbalanced” relationships between the Western and non-Western world and their mutual cultural, political, social, and technological exchange. One of his interests is architecture and the setting it creates with its spatial and political dimension. Using modern architecture as a critical example of an – often – malfunctioning living environment is an occurring subject of Attia’s work.
Ade Darmawan
In February 2019, documenta 15 issued a press release announcing the names of the artistic directors for the next edition of the world’s largest exhibition of art. The announcement included two historical firsts: The exhibition will not be organized by an individual as in the past, but by a collective (and, what is more, an artists’ collective), and this will be the first time since the exhibition’s founding in 1955 that it will be curated by representatives of the Asian continent.
Tomáš Vobořil
The alibi of the Czechoslovaks, which historically exempted them from responsibility for the era of European colonialism, is seriously undermined if we take a closer look at some episodes of Czechoslovak history and if we revise the attitude that Czechoslovak citizens took towards colonies and their people and what orientalizing ideas they created. This attitude certainly does not apply only to non-European people and cultures, but also within Europe itself, as Vobořil demonstrates in his work.
Nikola Brabcová, Barbora Švehláková, Tereza Jindrová + 1 more
Tereza Stejskalová is one of the most prominent feminist and critical voices on the Czech art scene. At present, she works as a curator in the initiative tranzit.cz and in the long term focuses on art critique.
As a curator, Stejskalová often works through postcolonial and feministic prism and her curatorial practice is typically an outcome of a long term research.
Kateřina Konvalinová’s video Corrective Relations: Bad Trip is inspired by the altered state of consciousness, new age mysticism and a phenomenon of the so-called normative event, meaning a strong personal experience that profoundly transforms the way we reflect the world and ourselves.