Video art in Slovakia (1990s-2000s)
Contents
Artists
Anetta Mona Chisa, Anna Daučíková, Anton Čierny, Dušan Zahoranský, Elena Pätoprstá, Erik Binder, Gabika Binderová, Jana Želibská, Juraj Dudáš, Mário Chromý, Miroslav Nicz, N. Ružičková, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Peter Agat Huba, Richard Fajnor, Roman Galovský.
Forms
- Features on identity, consummerism, body, gender, socio-cultural questions, ecology.
- Film footage manipulations.
- Video installations (Rónai, Meluzin, Želibská)
- Interactive video installations (Rónai)
Exhibitions
Imago – Fin de siécle, 30 May to 10 July 1991 in Bratislava. First video art exhibition in Slovakia. Art from Netherlands curated by René Coelho, premiered in 1988 in Amsterdam.
Oscillation, 30 June to 20 September 1991 in Komárno. Slovak and Hungarian artists.
Objects and Installations, 1992 in PGU Žilina. Included video-installations.
New Acquisitions, 1993 in PGU Žilina. Included video installations.
First Floor, 5-23 March 1993. Curated by Radoslav Matuštík. Exhibited Peter Meluzin (Impo(r)tant) and Roman Galovský (L.E.D1, L.E.D1).
Power Station T, 1993 in Poprad. Exhibited Peter Rónai (Oheň-Voda-Zem-Duch), Jana Želibská (Dialóg) a Peter Meluzin (Life After Life).
ON/OFF, 1993 in Škola úžitkového výtvarníctva J Vydru Bratislava. Exhibited the sampler of videos from six events of Slovak artists (Meluzin, Želibská, Oravec-Pagáč, Galovský, Nicz, Pisár) at various locations.
Video vidím ich sehe, 1994 in PGU Žilina. Curated by Katarína Rusnáková. Videoart from Slovakia (Jana Želibská, Peter Rónai, Peter Meluzin), Czech Republic and Switzerland. The catalog contained first more complex texts on Slovak video art. The gallery was the only one consistently researching and acquiring Slovak video art. Later exhibition included retrospective of Jana Želibská (1996-97) and Peter Rónai (1997).
Peter Meluzin - Mouse Killer, 1995 in PGU Žilina. Site-specific video-installation by Peter Meluzin.
Videoart VŠVU, 1996 in Rock Café Gallery Prague. Curated by Juraj Čarný.
Videoanthology, 1997 in PGU Žilina. Curated by Katarína Rusnáková. 13 video works by Peter Rónai.
Works
IDENTITY POLITICS
T.R.A.N.Z.I.T., 1992. Peter Rónai. Installation. Tautology.
Second Hand Art, 1992. Peter Rónai. Installation. Tautology.
Alter ego, 1993. Peter Rónai. Exhibited in UBS Bratislava. Site-specific video installation.
Cogito ergo Kunst, 1994. Peter Rónai. Installation with morphing animation on LCD display.
AIDS, 1995. Peter Rónai. Interactive video installation.
Autoreverse, 1997. Peter Rónai. Installation with morphing animation on LCD display.
Elastic Reality, 1997. Peter Rónai. Installation with morphing animation on LCD display.
Cannibale ante portas, 1997. Peter Rónai. Installation with morphing animation on LCD display.
After Alter ego, 1998. Peter Rónai. Interactive video installation.
Hello Dolly, 1998. Peter Meluzin. On cloning.
Real Virtuality, 1998. Peter Meluzin. On cloning.
Babyc/l/on, 1999. Peter Meluzin. On cloning.
TELEVISION AND CONSUMMERISM
Life after life, 1992. Peter Meluzin. Installation. A person in the living room watching television program about the man from France who died in the sofa while watching the television.
Teletextament, 1995. Peter Meluzin. Video object.
Wordburger Column, 1995. Peter Meluzin.
Home Video, 1996. Peter Meluzin.
Titled, 1999. Anetta Mona Chisa. Installation of television sets wrapped around by pink foil with the latin text cutout: 'proto horror-neo vacui'.
Caché, 2000. Anabela Žigová. Record of a performance of the artist, when she was giving away the promotion bags full of garbage to the public.
Flyers, 2001. Veronika Šramatyová. Record of a performance of the artist giving away the empty 'flyers' to the public.
GENDER
Zákaz dotyku, 1992. Jana Želibská. Demystificating female and sexuality from ironical distance.
Jej pohľad na neho, 1996.
Sisters, 1997. Jana Želibská. Inherent symptoms of adolescence.
Sisters II, 1999. Jana Želibská. Installation. Video of two young females in a dialogue, occasionally touching each other. A towel, wash-basin with water and other bathroom accessories installed next to the TV set.
FILM FOOTAGE MANIPULATION
New Slovak Dream, 1994. Peter Rónai. Appropriation of Warhol's 6-hour film 'Sleep' of a man sleeping in a bed. Video plays only one frame still from the film.
Red, Blue, White, 2000. Marek Kvetán. Comprimated versions of the Kieslowski's film trilogy.
Telenovela, 2001. Dušan Zahoranský. The scene from the TV series JAG, when the main character is interrogating the arrested female character. The dialogue is manipulated by the artist.
D’art’agnan RE:PLAY, 2003. Ivan Dudáš. The young artist-musketeer is accepted to the older and famous artists-musketeers.
Jánošík, 2003. Mário Chromý. Scene from the execution of Slovak national hero manipulated by the artist.
Mullholand Drive, 2004. Anna Daučíková. Dialogue of female characters on lesbian sex is accompanied by the artist's visual commentary.
APPROPRIATION
G. Bellini 1487 - V. Kordoš 1996, 1996. Vladimír Kordoš. Live interpretation of Bellini's painting of Madona.
ABJECTION, BODY AND MYTH OF BEAUTY
On Diet, 1997. Jana Želibská. Cycling sequence of the girl overeating, then throwing out. Along the shot of another girl, excersizing and giving instructions of how to solve the overweight problems.
What you do not think of, it is not, 1997. Pavlína Fichta Čierna. The camera slides the body of sitting actress and her reactions.
Clone Line, 1997-98. Peter Meluzin. The shots of two soviet working pair alternating with the shots of Barbie and Ken dolls.
Les Amies, 2000. Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová. Urban girl and her barbie-doll friend episodes filmed in the TV advertisement form.
What the fuck are you staring at?, 2001. by Anetta Mona Chisa. Ex-model threatens with resolute gesticulation to the camera.
Back to the Trees, 2002. Jaroslav Kyša.
Kiss, 2004. Jaroslav Kyša. Male lips resembling the sweet female ones.
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Pálenie vlastného tieňa, 1991. Vladimír Kordoš.
Dipól, 1993. Richard Fajnor.
Blízke stretnutie, 1993. Vladimír Kordoš.
Akčná inscenácia v Kittsee, 1997. Vladimír Kordoš.
Articles
Jana Geržová: Interview with Juraj Čarný on Videoart+ international symposium. Profil 4/2000. http://www.profil-art.sk/00_4/038_043.htm (Slovak)
Katarína Rusnáková: Video art. In: Zora Rusinová and collective: History of Slovak Fine Arts of 20th Century. Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery. 2000. (Slovak)
Katarína Rusnáková: Video art. In: Jana Geržová and collective: Glossary of Fine Arts of second half of 20th Century. Bratislava, Profil. 1999. (Slovak)
