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	Tomáš Vaněk \| theme \| 01.01.2003
	BOWL
	Finding the right thought is not easy. Artist Tomáš Vaněk talked several times with artist Jan Turner and tried to discover what was crucial. They ended up corresponding with each other for two weeks. Vaněk would send to Turner a convolute of questions and he then aswered. Sanding the bowl... Tell me something about the time you were collecting pinecones in the forest. I was collecting pinecones…

	Jiří Ptáček \| theme \| 01.01.2003
	DESIGN RUNNER
	When I came round to discuss an interview, Petr Písařík started planning what should be said in it. I did not want to hear about it in advance, so we lingered over the pictures instead. Large canvases that Petr had covered in adhesive tape with layers of coating and spray coating stood packed, just as he had brought them back from the most recent exhibitions at Brno’s Dům Pánů z Kunštátu and…

	Jiří Ptáček \| theme \| 01.01.2003
	KAPRUN
	From time to time I get excited and have the feeling that I know Petr Brožka. When I have a moment to think in peace, my conviction loses strength. The thing is, I continue to be irritated by his mixture of sharp intelligence and endless self-irony.In the beginning, I asked him for an author’s postscript to his work, and I was surprised to receive an outline of an interview that he’d made with…

	Václav Stratil \| theme \| 01.01.2003
	I AM LOOKING FOR A SPONSOR
	I am looking for a sponsor

	Ivan Mečl \| theme \| 01.04.2002
	RAFANI ON GUARD! OLD ORDER AND A NEW REALITY
	“We are building onto the everyday experience of wide social strata; we analyze it and look for points that go beyond the sphere of the mundane. With a conscious art form we attempt to reflect their interests, dreams, fears, and ambitions. What we express is in harmony with their ideas; we speak the language of bitter truth.” Excerpt from the Rafani ConstitutionIf the thoughtful reader goes…

	Jan Suk \| theme \| 01.04.2002
	LIVE ART - ART OF LIVING?
	“Usually when I say the word live art to people who don’t know what that means, you get some kind of smartass comment: ‘So is the other art dead then?’ And when I look at most kinds of mainstream performing artists in Britain, my answer is: Yes, it is.”Lois KeidanWhat is Live Art? Live Art is the tendency to fight against all definitions of traditional forms, and, like all contemporary artistic…

	Jan Suk \| theme \| 01.04.2002
	LIVE ARTIST

	Keiko Sei \| theme \| 01.04.2002
	UNIFORM FUTURE (PART 1)
	C3 Foundation and Mücsarnok put on an ambitious exhibition this year entitled VISION — Image and Perception for the opening of Hungary’s Budapest Autumn art festival. Its intention was to explore how we understand our inner vision, and how we perceive our outer vision by examining art, science and technology as seen throughout the history of art. A 16th-century painting of Narcissus opens the…

Keiko Sei | theme | 01.04.2002

UNIFORM FUTURE (PART 2)

Urban Sax and Ya Basta! use similar principles. Tute Bianche, the white overall movement that Ya Basta! is part of, writes: “The white overalls were born as an ironic reference to the ghosts of urban conflict, then they became a tool, a symbol and an open identity made available to the movement. Anybody could wear white overalls insofar as they respected a certain style. One of the typical sound…

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