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	Jiří Ptáček \| reportage \| 01.04.2004
	REPORT FROM A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EXIST
	On the night of December 14th I landed at the airport in Pristina, Kosovo where I went to participate in the third year of Videofest representing Umělec. This year’s subtitle was Homemade Marmalade. Irony runs through the veins of Kosovo intellectuals. At the same time as Homemade Marmalade, Pristina also hosted the international exhibition, the Muslim Mulliq Prize — and they diligently…

	Emilie Renardová \| profile \| 01.04.2004
	JIŘÍ SKÁLA: A SIMPLE TURN OF A SCREW
	Jiří Skála was born in 1976, and lives and works in Prague. The elaborated systems that Skála employs in his works are reminiscent of the results of a self-taught scientist. He attempts to verify principles, build theories, investigate and gain control of enclosed groups of objects in all surrounding fields, so that he—with the help of his somewhat indefinite scientific knowledge based on his own…

	Tony Ozuna \| study \| 01.04.2004
	THE BLURRED IMAGE
	My grandfather was already in his 50s when he first started to take pictures. He only photographed crowds—anonymous faces at high school football games, boxing or masked Mexican wrestling matches at the Olympic Auditorium in downtown L.A. I was his little companion at these events, yet I never even noticed that he was snapping away at faces in the audience, while I was watching Mil Mascaras (the…

	Jiří Ptáček \| new face \| 01.04.2004
	VENDULA CHALÁNKOVÁ
	Vendula Chalánková is an unexpected surprise of the Brno stage. It is possible that if she didn’t bring a comics diary about her trip to India, she wouldn’t be noticed by Eskort gallery’s Jana Kalinová or Pavel Pražák, the “virtual soul” of the Magda web gallery. It would be difficult to look for speculation in Chalánková. She is natural and warm. Her Indian diary documents no consistent story,…

	Jiří Ptáček \| new faces \| 01.04.2004
	VASIL ARTAMONOV
	Vasil Artamonov was born in 1980 not far from Moscow. When he was ten, his family moved to Czechoslovakia. Since that time he has not returned to Andrejevka, the town of his childhood. Since he has become a conceptually minded artist, he decided to make this break a central theme in his work. Artamonov‘s methods could best be described as reconstructions of remembered realities in art media…

	Alexis Leung \| profile \| 01.04.2004
	ESTELLE ARTUS, DAUGHTER OF VIDEO
	The first thing one notices in the video work of Estelle Artus is the presence of images containing fragments of familiar films, soundtracks or dialogues; it isn’t important whether or not we recognize them. The reference remains at a distance, often ironic, always light; and the artist’s videos can be fully appreciated even if the spectator doesn’t know the origins of a film in which only the…

	Estelle Artusová \| theory \| 01.04.2004
	SPACES FOR COLLECTIVE WORK: FILM AND VIDEO
	In groups, communities, or simply in pairs, working with others is more than an option for the artist, it may be a temptation. The organization of an artistic group acts upon its members as much as it influences the work which is eventually made. The term, eventually, should be emphasized because the community of artists itself can be presented as an oeuvre. The artistic group, considered as an…

	Ondřej Váša \| review \| 01.04.2004
	THE MONSTROUS MUTENESS OF FRANTIŠEK SKÁLA
	Skála v Rudolfinu Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague October 10, 2004 – January 2, 2005 After a few days of observing its destructive traces I stood over it, heard its weakening breath and I was drowning in a sea of despair unable to help it in any way. It extinguished and I remained there in total darkness.— František Skála Once upon a time, there was a golden era for junk collectors under communism.…

	Lenka Vítková \| review \| 01.04.2004
	COLD, STABBING, CUTING
	The members of the secret fellowship BKS (Bude konec světa - The End of World is Coming) presented their weapons on the 10th of November at the occasion of the exhibition Skála at the Rudolfinum. The exhibition of weaponry is a well-tried demonstration of power still not limited to any particular opponent. In this case, BKS also presented the enemy. The action was a double propaganda move. “BKS…

Ivan Mečl | editorial | 01.04.2004

EDITORIAL

Belarus is, along with Luxembourg, one of the least known countries in Europe. Luxembourg is the destination of order-loving retired people from the West, Belarus for Russian ones. Both countries provide the same amount of opportunities to have fun. Belarus is like traveling with a time machine—one that won’t bring you back very far, but you can be sure of going back a good thirty years. The…

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