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)