Bohuslav (Woody) Vašulka (1937, Brno, Česká republika – 2019, Santa Fe, USA)
Steina Vašulka (1940, Reykjavík, Island)
The lecture will present the beginnings and development of Critical Art, which was created in Gdańsk by Grzegorz Klaman, who worked both as an artist and as an organizer of many events and gallery institutions, as well as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
The exhibition Non-narrative Video art at Vašulka Kitchen Brno is a panorama of video production from Gdansk. The selected artists represent a group of teachers from the Academy of Fine Arts, but also several who had little to do with their local academic scene. The video art movement in Gdansk originates from curriculum reforms with the aim of creating fields of intermedia study. Successfully implemented, these curricula constitute the basis for the development of video art in Gdansk today evidenced by the successive generations of artists working in this medium.
During the lecture in the form of a case study of various cases of internet video and the artist's own works (with particular focus on the online project artUNBOXING), we will look at the relations between video posted on the web as content and those recordings that are made as an artistic verification of internet film genres.
The VASULKAS RELOADED international symposium is taking place at Vašulka Kitchen Brno located at the Brno House of Arts (House of the Lords of Kunštat) in Brno, Czech Republic on 22 and 23 October 2024.
It will be devoted to the critical evaluation of the work of Steina and Woody Vasulkas and their significant contribution to the art world including the subject of open archives.
Vašulka Kitchen Brno cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Patrícia Chamrazová: Resensing - Beyond Symbiosis on Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 6 PM at the House of the Lords of Kunštát.
It is our pleasure to announce that for Vašulka Kitchen Brno 2024 residency program we selected artistic duo Oliver Torr and Simon Kounovsky aka Axonbody. Together they develop a collaborative art project AXONTORR.
Bohuslav (Woody) Vašulka (1937, Brno, Česká republika – 2019, Santa Fe, USA)
Steina Vašulka (1940, Reykjavík, Island)
Art experimentation, image deconstruction, observation process. For over half a century now, the pioneers of video art Woody and Steina Vasulka have been exploring human memory, media memory and memory of art as an institution. A taste of life-long cohabitation of this partner and creative couple presents a personal story of a journey along places marked by their common fate: Brno, Prague, Reykjavik, New York and Buffalo. The odyssey of artistic fame of the living legends is put in contrast with their fragile social world and uncertain life perspectives. The heritage of video art is structured according to the texture of media of individual eras of film (35mm, video and hard disk). Fifty years of avant-garde saved on an external disk (Ji.hlava IDFF).
Awards
EDDA Award - The best Icelandic documentary of 2019
Audience Award at Skjaldborg documentary film festival, Island
Director: Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
Lenght: 87 min.
Production: Sagafilm & Krumma Films
Co-production: Produkce Radim Procházka, Bullitt Film & Nonami
Production: Margret Jonasdottir, Radim Procházka
Camera: Arnar Pór Pórisson, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
Editing: Jakob Halldórsson
Music: Hugar
Sound: Václav Flegl
Česká republika, Island, Švédsko, 2019
Distribution: Michal Jiřinec, michael@radimprochazka.com, tel: 737 655 227
The film is available to watch online at DAFILMS or České televizi.
(to replace with English)