tranzit.sk invites you to the exhibition

Mutually. 
Archives of non-institutionalized culture of the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia

Archives

Vladimír Ambroz (Brno), Artpool Art Research Centre (Budapest), Pavel Büchler (Praha), Josef Daněk & Blahoslav Rozbořil (Čelákovice, Kuřim), Ľubomír Ďurček (Bratislava), Vladimír Havlík (Olomouc), Dalibor Chatrný (Brno), The Július Koller Society (Bratislava), J. H. Kocman (Brno), Marie Kratochvílová (Brno), Marian Palla (Střelice), Jaroslav Pokorný (Brno)

Artists

Milan Adamčiak, Vladimír Ambroz, Peter Bartoš, László Beke, Pavol Breier, Róbert Cyprich, Josef Daněk & Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ľubomír Ďurček, György Galántai, Vladimír Havlík, Vladimír Havrilla, Vladimír Instutoris, Michal Kern, Július Koller, Vladimír Kordoš, Miloš Laky & Ján Zavarský, Juraj Meliš, Peter Meluzin, Karel Miler, Marián Mudroch, Marian Palla, Jaroslav Richtr, Rudolf Sikora, Petr Štembera, Peter Thurzo, Dezider Tóth, Katarína Zavarská, Jana Želibská, and others

Exhibition curated by

Filip Cenek, Daniel Grúň, Barbora Klímová
Organized in collaboration with tranzit.cz

Opening

Saturday 23. 6. 2012 at 18:00
Strom DJs (Markéta Lisá & Petr Vrba)
Concert: Ostrý zub & Vladimír Havlík

Exhibition lasts until 19. 8. 2012

Place

tranzit dielne / workshops
Studená 12, Bratislava, Slovakia

Time and space have completely different parameters in personal archives than in real life.  Perhaps it is so, because we enter the archives as strangers. Our world has a different arrangement than the archivists once knew. Nevertheless we are still trying to read and reconstruct what shaped the relations between individuals and communities, what united them and connected them to one another. A return to this experience is the reason why we are organizing this exhibition. Its aim is to present selected fragments of personal archives of the artists, active at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s in socialist Czechoslovakia. We are interested in activities of the informal groups and interest based communities that had been organized outside the state-run social structures. Many ephemeral works have been preserved only in documentation and provide an evidence of networks existing within the communities, on which these works were aimed and in which they resonated. Not attempting for a comprehensive picture of contemporary events, the exhibition focuses on selected personal archives, as their importance in the current exhibition practices is either lost or poorly captured. That is why we decided to include presently otherwise scattered communities of mainly Czech, Slovak and Hungarian artists, among whom a fairly intense exchange existed in the selected period. The nature of our display is therefore one of reconstruction of the omitted and intangible works threatened by total disappearance. The exposition is built on a system of torsos, morsels, fragments. However, the incompleteness of the presentation is counterbalanced by the opportunity to zoom into the intensity of cooperation and collective participation. The exhibition will display the documentation of activities - photographs and descriptions, referring to the authentic experience in the documentary form. However, it will not be a purely documentary exhibition. The viewers will also be able to experience an immediate confrontation with the relics, facts and artifacts. The exhibition model therefore presents a hybrid form, in which the documentation (slideshow, photocopies, posters) and the installation (spatial solutions) cooperate.

tranzit.sk is supported by ERSTE Foundation

www.tranzit.org
www.erstestiftung.org/blog/mutually
poster (link)