LOOKING EAST
Pavlína Fichta Čierna and Matej Vakula
Three Videos and a reception with the artists
Wednesday, November 5, 7:00 PM
A co-presentation of Ro2 Art and MAP - Make Art with Purpose
Pavlína Fichta Čierna and Matej Vakula
Three Videos and a reception with the artists
Wednesday, November 5, 7:00 PM
A co-presentation of Ro2 Art and MAP - Make Art with Purpose
Slovak artists Pavlína Fichta Čierna and Matej Vakula will screen three videos that represent a particular Central / Eastern European point of view. Beginning with their collaborative project, Transitioners: Case Tunnel Višňové Under Scrutiny (SK, 2013, 5:00) a short video that used unfinished tunnels, (originally designed take traffic through a mountain range rather than the more time consuming route of traveling above ground and up and around the individual peaks) as a site for a performance that investigates things that are in a permanent state of transition.
Additionally Matej Vakula will screen If We Don't Have, You Won't Have Either, (CZ, 2010, 2:00) a video that documents his night time intervention in public space in Namesti Miru, Zlin, Czech Republic. Commandeering the city's street lights the piece investigates the post-communist relationship between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, the two countries that made up the former Czechoslovakia.
A member of the first wave of artists working in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pavlína Fichta Čierna will show a short video that focuses on the stories and fates of individuals who, for various reasons, live on the edge of society. Concentrating on topics beyond the media interest, socially and mentally handicapped men and women, or individuals living their own life that does not comply with the rules of the consumer society, Fichta`s visual language is direct, severe, devoid of any useless embellishments distracting the viewer`s attention from the presented theme, with strong features of documentarist. In her works she often uses a specific interface of private and public spheres.
Additionally Matej Vakula will screen If We Don't Have, You Won't Have Either, (CZ, 2010, 2:00) a video that documents his night time intervention in public space in Namesti Miru, Zlin, Czech Republic. Commandeering the city's street lights the piece investigates the post-communist relationship between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, the two countries that made up the former Czechoslovakia.
A member of the first wave of artists working in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pavlína Fichta Čierna will show a short video that focuses on the stories and fates of individuals who, for various reasons, live on the edge of society. Concentrating on topics beyond the media interest, socially and mentally handicapped men and women, or individuals living their own life that does not comply with the rules of the consumer society, Fichta`s visual language is direct, severe, devoid of any useless embellishments distracting the viewer`s attention from the presented theme, with strong features of documentarist. In her works she often uses a specific interface of private and public spheres.
