Installations & actions
The Gift of an Exhibition (2011) – Girls only
Delight and a feeling of weal is caused also by presentation of yourself, your feelings, your work... I wanted to offer to visitors an opportunity to exhibit in The Brno House of Arts. Each exhibition lasted 10 minutes. Visitors could exhibit anything what they brought along or what they made directly at the place. There were art materials and tools available for them (papers, carbon, pencils, pastels...), a camera, a printer and a computer where they could print photos which they made at the place.
The exhibitions were full-valued, for each exhibition there was a poster and invitation cards printed. At each exhibition there was wine and refreshment available. Exhibitions were documented by photos and the documentation was sent to e-mails of exhibiting people.
The event was taken place in National Women's Day on the 7th March 2011. I intended the exhibitions as present for women, that's why only women could exhibit there.
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Tokyo Metro Project
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Letter to the Japanese Emperor (in Japanese). |
Letter to the Japanese Emperor (in English). |
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On the 25th November 2011 I made approximately one hour performance (in the early morning and then at noon) in Tokyo Metro, at Shin-Koenji Station of the Marunouchi Subway Line. Together with my assistants I placed arrows on the floor in front of each ticket-gate. In front of two gates I placed red arrows with the text "I AM HAPPY" and in front of two another gates I placed blue arrows with the text "I AM NOT HAPPY". There was an assistent near each gate counting the number of happy / unhappy passengers with tally hand counter. In the middle of the gates there was other assistant holding a board with text: "If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask". The main idea was that the people are forced to answer – they have to decide if they are happy or not: even if they don't want to or if they don't care. Some situations were slightly ironic, some of them could be read as metaphor. For instance one man wanted to go by happy gate at first, but other woman blocked the gate, so then he chose the unhappy gate. Neither of them noticed the happy/unhappy arrows.
One other man noticed the arrows, at first he went towards the happy gate, but then for the last moment he changed to unhappy gate. A few people went intentionally by happy gate noticing the arrows. According to counted numbers there is about twice more unhappy people in Tokyo comparing to happy people.
Because the result of this project is unquieting, I decided to inform about the result Japanese Emperor Akihito. I attach the letter. In these days I am expecting from His Imperial Majesty an answer .
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Tokyo Metro Project (25. 11. 2010) |
Monument for victims of Tokyo incident in 1995
Exhibition text:
At this place I planned to place a monument for victims of Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo Metro in 1995.
In that time the penetrator bought in Kiosk in a subway station Sport tabloid and he packed sarin in plastic bag to the tabloid. Everything he packed again to another plastic bag. Consequently he got into a train, he put the sarin to the floor and he pierced the bag with sarin with an umbrella. Sarin started to escape.
At this place I wanted to make monument like this: I would crumple a newspaper, put them into a plastic bag and toss it somewhere in the gallery in a corner.
In the morning, before the installation of the exhibition began, I fetched along a sport tabloid from home and I bought in a subway station a sports tabloid. Nevertheless I started to doubt and make a questions about the quality of such a concept like that (I think maybe the penetrators also doubted in that time). My concept did not seemed to me good anymore. That is why I finally decided not to make the monument and I exhibited untouched sports tabloid only.
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Installation of the "monument" |
May
Vojtěch Fröhlich & Vojtěch Maša + Karel Hynek Mácha j.h.: May, 2010.
A serie of 14 pieces 100 x 50 cm, kinetic object, text (mixed media)
Installation for Bernard Bolzano Gallery.
See http://www.lupomesky.cz/maj/may.html, http://intermedia.ffa.vutbr.cz/art-plener-techobuz
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Artificial Woman
An attempt to create an Artificial Woman. Documentation included. Gallery 12, Zlín.
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Greetings from Ljubljana (2007)
Visitors could make their own postcards by selecting a part of Ljubljana panorama and by adding nonsense text. Then a postcard was printed for them by attached printer and they could bring the postcard to their home.
Installation was in City Gallery Ljubljana as a part of 1.3 festival of New Media in Ljubljana.
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