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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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focus
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01.01.2001
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HEAVY METAL
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| "Skulls, tons of skulls. Black, night and horror. A grave. Satan and death, terrifying noise, an end to all hope, demons and madness. All standard fare in heavy metal music, along with skeletons, blood, doomed civilizations, vomit, black magic, war, blasphemy, booze, freakish animals, pierced eyes, cemeteries, fetuses, Armageddon, violence, underground crypts stacked with corpses, the nation,… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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news
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01.01.2001
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TERRORISTS IN OSTRAVA
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| Pierre Daguin recently displayed his collection of art weapons for the first time. His project in terrorism took place in the Ostravian pub/ gallery, Černý Pavouk, where the shadowy atmosphere made it feel like terrorists were just sidling in for a beer. As an artist, Daguin walks the perilous line between the acceptable and unacceptable, the division between art and reality. He manipulates both… |
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Martin Zet
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news
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01.01.2001
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…BUGGER OFF, TV!
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| “Freedom of speech” is one of those formulations charged with extraordinary power, one phrase within a larger grouping of phrases, all of which — if deftly employed — are capable of striking weapons from hands and arguments from mouths. Yes, freedom of speech, human rights, equality, liberty, fraternity, and — especially in post-communist countries — the free market. Swaying supporters to your… |
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Vladan Šír
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news
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01.01.2001
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LA RÉSISTANCE LIVES ON
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| Demonstrations against the already oldish black and blue coalition in Austria have long abated. The squares in Vienna and other cities are no longer filled with hundreds of thousands of protestors. All that’s left as a testament to the once powerful resistance movement are a few websites on the Internet. Gradually the majority of the population has become reconciled to the fact that government… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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q & a
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01.01.2001
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MARGINAL DIFFERENCES
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| "Michal Koleček established himself in the 1990s as a unique curator for the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, CZ. As a result of his efforts, many artists from the former Eastern Bloc are not only finding a place in Ústí, but also in Prague.In your work as a curator you mostly focus, as few here do, on post-communist art. How did you first become interested in something so specific? First,… |
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Karel Císař
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news
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01.01.2001
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NOTES FROM SWITZERLAND
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| migros museumMuseum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich was in 1998 renamed “migros museum” after one of the two biggest shopping chains in Switzerland, following Rirkrit Tiravanija’s project to convert it into a supermarket for his exhibition Social Capital. This institution, with a program comparable to that of Le Consortium in Dijon, has recently made public its collections from recent presentations… |
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Scott MacMillan
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news
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01.01.2001
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SCOTT`S FILM COLUMN
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| That Frankenstein has a place in the canon of modern thought is unquestionable. Repeated reshaping since its creation by Mary Shelley in 1816 has transformed this tale of “man playing god” into little more than a recurring pop motif — albeit one fraught with racial, sexual and political undertones, and one that invariably attempts to evoke the alienation of modern life. Today, scientific… |
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