Articles
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Anna Irmanovová a Jiří Ptáček
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interview
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01.01.2004
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ASS RINGS
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| Blue Noses: four middle-aged Russian men. When you watch their videos you might think they are crack-brained, funny, embarrassing or brilliant. Their work is borderline parody, buffoonery, social criticism, but you never know exactly which way they lean. Putin, Bush, Harry Potter, Chechnyan terrorist, Oleg Kulig, feminism, Lenin and James Bond — whole committees of media icons take on the… |
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Halka Třešňáková
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profile
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01.01.2004
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AKHE
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| Summer, 1999
One or another man, both of whom immediately inspire respect with tall stature and full beards, cut to a point reaching to their chests, frequently dart across the lawn at the Plasy monastery.
Maxim and Pavel, from the Akhe performance group, were among others who participated with Miloš Vojtěchovsky’s artists-in-residence program..
Throughout their stay at Plasy, artists and… |
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BLN
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reportage
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01.01.2004
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CAPE TOWN REDBULL MUSIC ACADEMY
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| … is a workshop for DJ’s and producers, a chance to glean new information and make contacts. Participants are chosen on the basis of an extensive questionnaire and a 30-minute mix or a demo of your own production. It can be any style of electronic music. One participant is usually chosen from each country (except for the big ones like USA and UK).
The first RBMA took place in 1999 in Berlin,… |
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Vít Havránek
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profile
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01.01.2004
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SUBJECTIVE PATTERNS OF CONSUMPTION
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| Jan Šerých’s contribution to the catalogue for the Zlínský Salon consisted of two photographic details of his Saab, model 900. For his exhibition in Černý pavouk in Ostrava, Šerých collected photographs of jet planes and from this collection he made large-format A1 prints. For several months Šerých gathered empty food packaging: bottles, detergents, milk cartons, butter boxes and from these he… |
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Petra Binková
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reportage
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01.01.2004
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STRUGGLE WITH(IN)ZAPATISTA MURALS
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| In 1997, when standing for the first time in front of the painted walls in Zapatista indigenous villages in the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas, I tried to read them as coherent and complex visual messages by and for those who have long ago lost any hope to be heard simply by “being.” While observing the shapes, forms, colors and other aesthetic categories, no matter how much I was eager to… |
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Matei Bejenaru
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videos
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01.01.2004
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OH BABY YOU’RE NOT BAD AT ALL — COMMERCIAL ROMANIAN MUSIC VIDEOS
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| Ten years ago, during the World Football Championship in America, when the Bulgarian and the Romanian teams were winning one game after another, the euphoria of millions of viewers back home was boundless. Bulgaria’s victory over Germany in the quarterfinal helped the Bulgarians forget that superstar Hristo Stoicikov, who was playing for CF Barcelona, spoke in Spanish when interviewed by the… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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full happiness
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01.01.2004
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MASTERS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
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| “It’s better to be an ordinary guy living an extraordinary life than the other way around.” The sitcom Friends comes to an end this year. But network NBC already has another ace up the sleeve: an animated sitcom called The Father of the Pride. It will be the first TV series completely generated by computer technology. Production will be in the skilled hands of DreamWorks, the same team which a… |
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Dunja Christochowitz
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full happiness
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01.01.2004
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INCLUDE ME OUT - DANIELA ROSSELL — "RICAS Y FAMOSAS"
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| “The secret codes of home are not made of conscious rules, but rather spun from unconscious habits. What characterizes the habit is the fact that one is not conscious of it. The person without a home must first consciously learn the secret codes and then forget them, to be able to immigrate into a home. However, if the code becomes conscious, then its rules turn out to be not sacred but banal.”… |
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