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\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\nJi\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k: DeepReal Havel<\/strong><\/p>\n opening hours: 10. 12. – 23. 12. 2020, daily from 4pm to 8pm, exhibition is designed to be watched from the outside<\/strong><\/p>\n curators: Mark\u00e9ta Jon\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1, Anna Davidov\u00e1<\/p>\n The exhibition project <\/span>DeepReal Havel <\/span><\/i>is based on Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k\u00b4s long-term interest in capturing local \u2013 implying mostly Czechoslovak or Czech \u2013 identity in relation to non-European countries and cultures. In academia, this relation is the subject of postcolonial studies, an academic discipline that is concerned with the critical analysis of colonialism and imperialism. Whereas abroad, postcolonial studies has notably influenced several fields, in the Czech environment a conviction pertains (except perhaps for a few isolated works in the academic and artistic sphere) that this kind of research is not relevant for the local context as Czechoslovakia has never had any colonial possessions. However, the subject of postcolonial studies is not only the historical forms, in which the African, Asian and Latin American territories were colonised. Their significance consists in the reflection and transformation of prevailing power relations between various states and political blocks that are projected into business transactions, cultural interpretations, and foreign policies. Even though Czechoslovakia never colonised any non-European country, it did export military equipment and was economically involved in these countries. The economic and cultural expansion of Czechoslovakia is also the subject of Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k\u2019s film <\/span>Mother City <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>Mate\u0159sk\u00e9 m\u011bsto, 2015<\/span><\/i>), in which he mapped the spread of Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ba\u0165a\u2019s business visions to Canada, India, Java and Brasil. That colonisation is not merely related to past regimes is reflected in the artist\u2019s video installation<\/span> It Was Probably Our Karel, She Said <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>Pravd\u011bpodobn\u011b to byl n\u00e1\u0161 Karel, \u0159ekla<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>2020<\/span><\/i>), where the leading role is played by the Musela brothers, the post-revolution kings of the Czech arms industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The origin of the exhibition project <\/span>DeepReal Havel<\/span><\/i> also lies in Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k\u2019s interest in theoretical research and postcolonial studies. In the introduction of the publication <\/span>Outside the North and South. Understanding Global Inequalities and Diversity<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>Mimo Sever a Jih: Rozum\u011bt glob\u00e1ln\u00edm nerovnostem a rozmanitosti<\/span><\/i>), researchers Ond\u0159ej Hork\u00fd-Hluch\u00e1\u0148 and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Profant refer to a speech of V\u00e1clav Havel, in which the former Czech president marks decolonisation and the disintegration of the Soviet Union as the most significant events of the second half of the 20th century. This speech, delivered by V\u00e1clav Havel o<\/span>n the occasion of receiving the Indira Gandhi Prize in 1994, became the subject of the collaboration between said researchers, etc. gallery and Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k. This collaboration consisted of a collaborative rewriting of Havel’s original speech<\/a> based on the insights of postcolonial studies and the historical distance of the past quarter-century. The final text is not merely a transcription but is foremost a re-evaluation of the thought of a politician who has become an international symbol of the nonviolent defeat of totalitarian communist regimes and the following transition of these regimes to capitalist democracy. It is the critical reflection of the relation of postsocialist Eastern Europe and Western neoliberal capitalism, which according to <\/span>Ond\u0159ej Hork\u00fd-Hluch\u00e1\u0148 and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Profant <\/span>constitutes the first step towards the decolonisation of Czech culture, politics, and its economy. This reflection will allow for the rooted feelings of superiority to be questioned, as well as expose negative consequences of the current political system, such as its ecological unsustainability or escalating social inequality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As in previous films by Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k, we also witness in <\/span>DeepReal Havel<\/span><\/i> the lead character performing in the centre of the camera frame, mediating his or her message to the viewers. Unlike in his other works, the appearance of the main protagonist of <\/span>DeepReal Havel <\/span><\/i>changes \u2013 the orating face of V\u00e1clav Havel is transformed into an image of a young actor and actress, while the speech flows continuously. To implement this transformation, the artist uses Deepfake technology \u2013 a contemporary viral virtual tool for an audiovisual substitution of portraits. Permeating appearances refer to the polemical nature of the re-evaluation of Havel\u2019s thought, which is not simply revised but rather updated based on their prevailing validity and historical situatedness. This theoretically and visually updated reading of V\u00e1clav Havel\u2019s speech encourages viewers to take distance from the symbolic aura of his persona, and adopt a new perspective on the relation between post-Soviet Czech society, Western countries, and non-European others. <\/span><\/p>\n Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k (*1989)<\/strong> is an artist based in Prague. In his audiovisual works, he often combines documentary, staged, and performative strategies to explore topics related to contemporary visual culture, local history, and postcolonial world order. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (studio of Tom\u00e1\u0161 Van\u011bk), and completed scholarships at the University of the Arts and Design in Karlsruhe and at the AAAD in Prague. In 2015, he won the EXIT Award, two years later was chosen as a finalist of the competition Other Visions PAF and is nominated for the Jind\u0159ich Chalupeck\u00fd Prize 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n ACTORS: S\u00c1RA M\u00c4RCOV\u00c1, DAN KRANICH<\/span><\/p>\n IT: KRY\u0160TOF PE\u0160EK, OND\u0158EJ ROZTO\u010cIL, TOM\u00c1\u0160 KAJ\u00c1NEK<\/span><\/p>\n DESIGN: NELA KLI\u0301MOVA\u0301\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n PARTNERS: BIOFILMS, ICONIC DESIGN<\/span><\/p>\n SPECIAL THANKS TO: TOM\u00c1\u0160 KAJ\u00c1NEK, MICHAL JURZA, MAX M\u00c1SLO, JAMES MANSFIELD, MICHAL BLECHA<\/span><\/p>\n THE PROJECT IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY GRANTS FROM THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, PRAGUE CITY HALL & STATE CULTURAL FUND. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k: DeepReal Havel opening hours: 10. 12. – 23. 12. 2020, daily from 4pm to 8pm, exhibition is designed to be watched from the outside curators: Mark\u00e9ta Jon\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1, Anna Davidov\u00e1 The exhibition project DeepReal Havel is based on Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k\u00b4s long-term interest in capturing local \u2013 implying mostly Czechoslovak or Czech \u2013 identity in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}