Articles
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Josef Jindrák
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out - archeology
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01.02.2008
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S.D.CH, SOLITAIRES AND PERIPHERY CULTURE (A GENERATION BORN AROUND 1970)
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| Who is S.d.Ch? A person of many interests, active in various fields—literature, theater—known for his comics and collages in the art field. A poet and playwright foremost. A loner by nature and determination, his work doesn’t meet the current trends. He always puts forth personal enunciation, although its inner structure can get very complicated. It’s pleasant that he is a normal person and a… |
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Andrej Bazant
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out - interview
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01.02.2008
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POET’S GRAVE-DIGGER
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| You sometimes give concerts with Ruce naší Dory (Our Dora’s Hands), you run the Varlén Puppet Theatre, in which you present your puppet plays. Did you ever write any prose?
I was always a bit turned off by that. Before you arrive at some message, it takes such a long time. But I find myself now involved in a certain project. It’s called “Pastýřské déja-vu” (Pastoral Déja-vu). Perhaps this too is… |
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Ivan Mečl
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activism
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01.02.2008
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THE SECOND CULTURE IN THE USA
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| Milan Kohout’s first performances took place in socialist Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the 80s. Much of the documentation of those early events was seized by the Czech secret police, and hence all that exists today are drawings by the author. One example is from the Be a Pig performance, where he went to a pig farm, stripped naked, lay down among suckling piglets, and nursed milk from a… |
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William Hollister
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new face
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01.02.2008
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ENGRAVED SNAPSHOT: JITKA MIKULICOVA
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| It’s a deceptively simple game; it’s child’s play. Rip a piece of paper into shreds of various shapes and sizes, let them fall, scattering like snowflakes upon a table, and then push them around, arranging them variously until images emerge. That which comes together this way—order from chaos—says different things about one’s inner landscape than an image deliberately drawn.
Figuratively… |
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Zuzana Vansová
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new face
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01.02.2008
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ZUZANA VANSOVÁ
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| Zuzana Vansová
* 7. 10 1982, Klatovy
I didn’t study at an art-oriented school. I never participated in any art competition or show. I do not aspire to revolt and I detest any efforts to arouse profound feelings in contemporary art. Despite missing out on all that, I seek out experiences of geometry and introspection. Each geometric element has its aesthetic approach that is dependent on… |
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Tony Ozuna
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review
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01.02.2008
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PUNKS NOT DEAD
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| Punk. No One is Innocent—Art—Style--Revolt
Kunsthalle Wien
16 May—7 September, 2008
In Eastern Europe, or in any non-English speaking country for that matter, punks must take pride in writing “Punks Not Dead” without the apostrophe after the “K,” as it should be. Without the grammatical correction, on their leather jackets, t-shirts and graffiti on the walls, the slogan takes on a Dadaist… |
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Lenka Vítková
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review
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01.02.2008
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A PLACE IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE
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| Maria Lassnig, Serpentine Gallery, London. Curator: Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, April 25 – July 8, 2008
At the recent London exhibition of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (b. 1919), the large, bright walls of the elegant Serpentine Gallery display sizable figurative oil paintings, often self-portraits, some schematic male and female figures on a white background or symbolic bodies… |
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Robin Mackay
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review
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01.02.2008
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UNFOLDING THE MIDDLE EAST: KRISTEN ALVANSON’S NONAD
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| Azad Gallery, Tehran, May 2008
In his 1998 book on Leibniz, philosopher Gilles Deleuze proposed the figure of ‘The Fold’ as a way in which a philosophy of immanence might measure the multiplicity of the universe. If Being speaks in one voice, if we invoke no transcendent plane of organisation, then how can difference be articulated? Deleuze’s vision of folds-within-folds, which he discovers to… |
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Katarína Galajdová, Dagmar Fuxová
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art education
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01.02.2008
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HOW DOES CREATIVE EDUCATION LOOK, CHILDREN?
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| Eva Koťátková’s project “Creative Education” was implemented in the Karlín Studios in the Spring of 2008. A number of varied, long lessons in “creative education” led by artists took place in a schoolroom set up in a gallery hall. Nicely edited video recordings are available for viewing at www.artycok.tv. Our goal here is not to critique the “Creative Education” project as a whole; we will focus… |
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Héctor Villarreal
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art education
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01.02.2008
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ARTS EDUCATION IN MEXICO: BETWEEN CONTEMPT AND SUBORDINATION
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| Every three years, beginning in 2000, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts standardized tests in member countries as part of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Its goal is to “evaluate students as they complete compulsory schooling” at 15 years of age, independently of their grade level. The examinations are not aimed at verifying the… |
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