Articles
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Ivan Mečl
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editorial
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01.04.2007
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WE ALL WANT AN SUV
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| The European Union was not created out of regional cultural interest but rather to support free, cross-border investment. If you have a full wallet or a credit card, then you are an investment. This is a given concerning EU residents, and therefore they can travel where they want. We don’t want poor people, and thus there’s an iron curtain at the eastern border of the Union. It’s just they… |
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Chris Gill
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artist
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01.04.2007
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ART CLANDESTINO WITH LUCIANA LAMOTHE
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| I hated the oppressive obedience of my school days. As a reaction to it the kids I befriended were far more inclined to cause chaos than to learn. Pubic hair in sandwiches, mud in hair, a healthy disdain for the National curriculum; every school had kids like these. I was surprised when I moved into the professional world that this oppression was even more systematically ingrained. So I… |
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Lenka Vítková
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profile
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01.04.2007
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I SEE, I HEAR, I BURN; A FEW NOTES ON THE SCULPTURES OF MILAN KUNC
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| Despite the fact that Milan Kunc has lived in his summer flat in Prague for three years, he is neither a Prague nor even a Czech painter. The catalogue Milan Kunc Paintings 1973–2006, published this year by Kant publishing house, traces Kunc’s work through the locales which he worked out of: Düsseldorf, Cologne, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, New York, Rome, Tuscany, Schlosstal, Prague… Kunc is… |
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Ruth Estévez
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interview
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01.04.2007
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INTERVIEW WITH ISRAEL MORA
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| In the last years, Israel Mora’s artistic endeavors— mostly events and performances—have straddled the line between reality and simulacrum, both in form and content. Notably influenced by Mexico City (where he lives), Israel’s work functions like a representation of an underground society or counter-culture. Using his body as a site from which to work, Israel’s staged situations take on… |
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Irving Domínguez
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muscularity
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01.04.2007
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HECTOR FALCON, A PLASTIC MASCULINITY?
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| RESONANCES FROM 49: ALTERED METABOLISM
People where / I come from / they survive without feelings or blood / I never could / was stoned to death / but I'm still living
Morrissey, He cried
In a previous article (Dominguez: 2005) I analyzed the photographic documentation of the performance 49: Altered Metabolism by Hector Falcon 1. The project, whose components dealt with various aspects of the… |
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Petr Brožka
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fashion
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01.04.2007
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MELANCHOLIA X
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The renaissance of emotionality has been obvious in art circles for a relatively long time, but only subtly mirrored by mainstream society’s cultural conventions. In the real world, art already intermingles with complementary conventions.
Expressed through the metaphor of "depersonalization," emotionality is paradoxically a simple expression of emotion. Therefore, it is often associated with the… |
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Lenka Dolanová
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seeing
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01.04.2007
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DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR
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| In making art I’ve come to the point where all the images that I create exist only in my mind.
Alfons Schilling lives in a spacious flat not far from Vienna’s Westbahnhof train station. I went to visit him in January 2007 in order to find out more about his experimental work with Woody Vasulka. The two men shared a studio together in New York for a short period during the 1960s. For both men,… |
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Ivan Mečl
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interview
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01.04.2007
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INVISIBLE PARLIAMENT
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| "Kein Mensch kapiert, was das Europarlament is" Robert Birnbaum
At the beginning of the 1990s, philosopher Mirek Vodrážka indicated in his Lao Tse-inspired texts that the best government is that which citizens do not even know exists. It’s possible that he didn’t realize then how close his prophecies were to becoming true. The European Parliament is truly something about which we know nothing. I… |
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Clemens Foscher
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banking and finance
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01.04.2007
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ERSTE BANK
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| Over the last few years Austrian companies have made substantial profits from taking over firms in the new EU member states. The Erste Bank Gruppe [First Bank Group], which has bought up formerly state-owned banks in seven countries, provides an example of this successful “Eastern expansion.” The work of the Erste Bank Foundation in Central and Eastern Europe is characterized by sponsorship… |
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Mariana Serranová
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conceptual visions
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01.04.2007
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STRATEGY FOR A FUNCTIONAL MODEL TRANZITDISPLAY – A CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE PROJECT
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| On November 9, 2007, Mexican artist Erick Beltrán’s exhibition opened as part of Display Gallery’s introduction to its new space on Dittrichova Street in Prague. Prior to that, Ján Mančušká gave a performance of Jestli je na mně něco dobrého, jsem to jen já, kdo to ví (If there’s something good about who I am, then it’s just me. Who knows?) at the Světozor Cinema. A week later, a lecture was… |
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