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International Simultaneous Exhibitions: 'Distant Nature'


DISTANT NATURE

Artists: Jiří Černick. (CZ), Anton Čierny (SK), Josef Dabernig (AT), Endre Koronczi (HU), Oto Hudec (SK), Richard Kitta (SK), Šárka Koudelová (CZ), Zuzana Križalkovičová (SK), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), Plateauresidue (SI), Dejan Radovanovic (RS), Oliver Ressler (AT), Pavla Sceranková (CZ), Svetlana Spirina (RU), Magda Tothova (DE), Moira Zoitl & Sajan Mani (AT, IN), Vanessa White (AU)

Curator: Katarína Balúnová

5/6 – 3/8/2020

The selection of more than 20 international art videos and films from 17 artists will be presented gradually, each with a span of several days, from June 5th to August 3rd, 2020. The screening directed to the public space will take place simultaneously in Knoll Galerie Wien, Fotograf Gallery Prague and MAO / DIG in K13 - Kasarne Kulturpark Košice.

What is our relationship to nature? The concept of nature is notoriously equivocal, the return to nature in many aspects problematic and the questions of how to widely protect the nature from us, who are part of it, not easy to be answered. Reinterpretation and reconstruction of our relationship to nature is related to economic, social, political and cultural changes over time.

In a much cited essay on the historical roots of the environmental crisis, historian Lynn White argued that the main strands of Judeo-Christian thinking had encouraged the overexploitation of nature by maintaining the superiority of humans over all other forms of life on earth, and by depicting all of nature as created for the use of humans. The contemporary discovery of nature’s perishability follows the modern collapse of western metaphysics. Although potentially liberating this modern discovery simultaneously invites doubt about our societies’ normative frameworks. The current tendency is rather to seek symbiosis with nature than domination and control.

Criticism of dominance over nature and / or the (negative) impact of socio-political and technological development on the environment is included in the works of the artists Anton Čierny, Endre Koronczi, Oto Hudec, Plateauresidue, Oliver Ressler and Magda Tothova, while the artists Jiří Černick., Richard Kitta, Jan Pfeiffer and Dejan Radovanovic record this impact without valuating the situation.

The artists Pavla Sceranková and Moira Zoitl & Sajan Mani deal with the impact of man on nature through the labour, what can be gardening as a relaxing weekend activity, as well as the transhistorical question of possession / dispossession of land.

An important part of the search and the establishing a relationship with the nature can be a corporal experience, from physical contact to immersion in nature. The artists Josef Dabernig, Šárka Koudelová, Zuzana Križalkovičová, Svetlana Spirina and Vanessa White depict body and nature in their works with different approaches, from a documentary record to an intimate statement.


DISTANT NATURE - Calendar

5/6 – 3/8/2020


5.6 – 8.6.2020

Josef Dabernig (AT)

www.dabernig.net

River Plate | Film exp. | 35mm | noir et blanc | 00:16:00 | Austria / Italy | 2013

https://vimeo.com/417693811

9.6 – 11.6.2020

Zuzana Križalkovičová (SK)

www.zuzana.krizalkovic.com

Northern Lights Perfomance, Video, 3,2 min. 2018

https://vimeo.com/394807900

12.6 – 15.6.2020

Jan Pfeiffer (CZ)

www.janpfeiffer.info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0RIa5Sg-g&feature=emb_title

Meadow of time / 2019

16.6 – 18.6.2020

Endre Koronczi (HU)

http://www.koronczi.hu/

https://youtu.be/uQAp62zz7yk

https://youtu.be/D9EV3cyOQkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4fMTFM0nPo

19.6 – 22.6.2020

Jiří Černick. (CZ)

http://cernicky.com/

Flowers

https://vimeo.com/160547181

Butterflies

https://vimeo.com/160546457

23.6 – 25.6.2020

Svetlana Spirina (RU)

www.cargocollective.com/svetlanaspirina

Russia, My Terra, 2013-2015

https://vimeo.com/141939626

26.6 – 29.6.2020

Anton Čierny (SK)

Courtesy of my father, video, 14min. 55 sec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw-kuYkrLLo

30.6 – 2.7.2020

Pavla Sceranková (CZ)

http://www.scerankova.wz.cz/

Sauer Kraut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlSewbpU5y4&feature=emb_logo

3.7 – 6.7.2020

Oliver Ressler (AT)

http://www.ressler.at

https://vimeo.com/oliverressler

https://www.instagram.com/oliver.ressler

Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Code Rood, 14 min., 2018

https://vimeo.com/237898842

Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 10 min., 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWrb7M6DUQ

7.7 – 9.7.2020

Magda Tothova (DE)

www.magdatothova.com

A.r.s. is not invited

https://vimeo.com/128290110

10.7 – 13.7.2020

Dejan Radovanovic (RS)

https://www.dejan-radovanovic.com

Talking trees

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 03:09 minutes, 2015-18

https://vimeo.com/130808030

One of These Mornings

https://vimeo.com/120119483

14.7 – 16.7.2020

Oto Hudec (SK)

www.flyingfish-world.blogspot.com

https://vimeo.com/267204363

https://vimeo.com/46747601

https://vimeo.com/85241676

17.7 – 20.7.2020

Plateauresidue (SI)

https://plateauresidue.com/

Ex Topia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZ-MnhtGkg&feature=emb_logo

Sub Persona

https://vimeo.com/374334313

21.7 – 23.7.2020

Šárka Koudelová (CZ)

http://sarkakoudelova.blogspot.com/

Permapink, 2017, 9min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpOAKR7Bsxc&feature=youtu.be

24.7 – 27.7.2020

Moira Zoitl & Sajan Mani (AT, IN)

http://www.moirazoitl.com/de/works/view/214

[ blueprint ]

Video, 15:30 Min., 2018

28.7 – 30.7.2020

Vanessa White (AU)

www.vanessawhiteart.com

23° West

https://vimeo.com/219138918

Salt Lake

https://vimeo.com/309864986

31.7 – 3.8.2020

Richard Kitta (SK)

Richard Kitta – Parasite (2020) / 1:20 min.

video / animation, loop (16:9)

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