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[Nettime-ro] "CZECHPOINT" INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL ART |
"CZECHPOINT" INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL ART
Exhibition is organised by: NoD-Roxy Gallery Dlouhá 33, 110 00 Praha 1 www.roxy.cz/nod/
C2C Gallery Za Strahovem 19, 169 00 Praha 6 www.c2c.cz
With the support of the Centre for Contemporary Art Prague
Exhibition will run from: 1.11. - 30.11. 2006 in NoD-Roxy Gallery 15.11. - 2.12. 2006 in C2C Gallery
Curator: TAMARA MOYZES tamara.moyzes@gmail.com +420 732 400 026 In collaboration with ZUZANA ŠTEFKOVÁ zuzana.stefkova@c2c.cz +420 731 512 512
Guest curators: Israel: JAN TICHÝ Moldavia: STEFAN RUSU, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, www.art.md Czech Republic: ZUZANA BLOCHOVÁ (Mexican section)
Exhibition CZECHPOINT is a survey of young Czech and Slovak as well as international art dealing with political issues. The title is a play of words on "checkpoint", as a point at which an inspection or investigation is performed especially at the borders between states. It is a point of exchange of persons, goods and decreasingly of information that functions as a selectively-permeable membrane between regimes, between economics, between beliefs. Bordering social establishments often have their frictions and the border checkpoints become points of high pressure. We think of checkpoints such as between West Berlin and East Berlin or border between Israel and the West Bank.
The goal of this exhibition and its accompanying program is to present and further activate the potential of local artists whose work concerns issues of politics. Two of Prague's contemporary art venues c2c and NoD will become "checkpoints" where various issues are checked and examined, not only those social and political, but also different regimes of art and "real" life. After all, political art often draws its impact from reaching into public spaces to interact directly with unaware and unsuspecting audiences.
Artists invited to participate are going to present their works dealing with various problems of (not exclusively Czech) society. The aim is to confront the upcoming generation of artists with already established artists and to map their choice of political themes which currently gained importance. The range of presented approaches and media is intentionally very wide spanning from painting, photography and objects through video, animation and concept to performances and social interventions.
The project is a loose continuation of the exhibition POLITIK-UM / New Engagement which has been organised in 2002 by Center for Contemporary Art in Prague in cooperation with Goethe Institute and took place in the Prague Castle. Controversies that accompanied the opening of this exhibition have revealed problematic issues of the past and present which trigger heated reactions in the majority of the Czech public such as the forced moving of Germans from the Czech border areas after the WWII, the influx of refugees, intolerance toward minorities or corruptibility of officials.
Exhibition CZECHPOINT returns after four years to the sphere of political art, aware of the fact that one doesn't step twice in the same river. The global political scene has in many respects changed since 2002 and this experience is reflected in the works of young Czech and Slovak artists. Despite the increasing possibilities of interconnecting the local art scene and the global political issues, In Czech republic the art is often seen by both the professional and non-professional public as timeless and therefore strictly apolitical. The CZECHPOINT project is trying to challenge these ideas.
The accompanying program will widen the scope of the exhibition by presenting documentary films on the explosive Middle East situation through the eyes of Pro-Palestinian Israeli filmmakers. Program will also include lectures, music and theatre performances.
A selection of works featuring in the exhibition may be viewed at NoGallery. http://www.nogallery.info
Accompanying program at NoD-Roxy:
AVIADA ALBERT & ZAKSA /IL/ - screening of an electronic music concert GUMA GUAR /CZ/ - live music performance SKUPINA PODE BAL, RICHARD FAJNOR - performances
Thursdays with Israeli documentary film: 171. 2006 NoD Gallery Allan Flander /Canada/: Zero Degree of Separation Noam Kaplan: Tzavaron Kahol Levan, Shai Pollack Carmeli: Bili'in habibti Tal Hakim: State of Israel vs. Tali Fahima Rananan Abramovicz: Holy Land Avi Mugrabi: Aviv David Offek: Number 17.
Conference "Political Art in Context": 29.11. 2006 NoD Gallery
GALIT EILAT /IL/ www.digitalartlab.org.il MARK DIVO /CH/: How to get a real estate not used for contemporary art BEATA HOCK /HU/: Activist Art in Hungarian Context MIRA KERATOVÁ/SK/: Periphery Blues: Billboart Gallery and Slovak Political Art LENKA KUKUROVÁ /SK/: What is Activist Art? TAMARA MOYZES /SK/: Censorship in Israeli Art PIOTR PIOTROWSKI /PL/: Art and Politics in Communist and Post-Communist Region POD /USA/ http://XLterrestrials.org : Transmigration of Cinema - Screening DIEGO ROTMAN & LEA MAUAS /IL/ www.sala-manca.net VÍT ŠISLER /CZ/ Activist Computer Games: Between Politics, Art, and Entertainment Screening: XLterrestrials: Transmigration of Cinema, from 20.00, Gallery NoD
30.11. 06 Thur 20:00 Cinema Světozor AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY EYES Avi Mograbi /IL/ Documentary film, 107 min, France/Israel, 2005 /Cinema Světozor, Vodičkova 41, Prague 1, www.kinosvetozor.cz/
Exhibiting artists:
CZECH REP. /CZ/.: DAVID ČERNÝ, JIŘÍ DAVID, JIŘÍ FRANTA, GUMA GUAR, EVA JIŘIČKOVÁ, KRIŠTOF KINTERA, PODE BAL (PETR MOTYČKA? ANTOMÍN KOPP? MICHAL ŠIML), LUKÁŠ HÁJEK, JAN KOTÍK, MILAN SALÁK, JAN VLČEK, RICHARD WIESNER, MARTIN ZET SLOVAKIA /SK/: RADOVAN ČEREVKA, VIKTOR FREŠO, MÁRIO CHROMÝ, RADIM LABUDA, MICHAL MORAVČÍK, SLÁVA SOBOTOVIČOVÁ GERMANY /GER/: MICHAEL BIELICKÝ, HARUN FAROCKI, MANDY GEHRT AUSTRIA /AT/: SOS - ROBERT JELINEK, SOCIAL IMPACT NORWAY /NOR/: JESPER ALVAER POLAND /POL/: ROMAN DZIADKIEWICZ, RAFAŁ JAKUBOWICZ HUNGARY /HU/: RÓZA EL-HASSAN, LILLA KHOOR & WILL POTTER KOSOVO: ALBERT HETA MOLDOVA /MD/: PAVEL BRAILA, LILIA DRAGNEVA, VEACESLAV DRUTA, STEFAN RUSU, SERGEI TURCANU RUSSIA /RUS/: AVDEY TER-OGANYAN, DAVID TER-OGANYAN KAZAKHSTAN /KZ/: DIANA JUN, ERBOSSUN MELDIBEKOV, SAID ATABEKOV & ARYSTAN SHALBAEV ISRAEL /IL/: EFI & AMIR, HAGAR GOREN, NITZAN DOMIDIANO, AVI MOGRABI, MICHAL ROTSHILD, JAN TICHÝ, SHLOMO YAFFE, NEVET YITCHAK PALESTINE: MANAR ZUABI MEXICO: CARLOS AGUIRRE, IVÁN EDEZA, XIMENA CUEVAS, ENRIQUE JEŽIK, LORENA WOLFFER
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