Manja Ebert, Paula Gehrmann, Jens Klein, Lebohang Kganye, Clarissa Thieme
What Remains Gallery - Re*creation
Many people associate the term “recreation” with leisure time: going on holiday, lounging, hiking or browsing the latest issue of Fotograf magazine. Of all the works presented at the Re*creation exhibition, however, the holiday theme has been explicitly dealt with only in the film directed by Israeli Roman, who used found records of a summer journey of a 1970s young couple to create an intimate story, and in the short video by Kateřina Držková, that uses playful absurdity to dismiss the expectations associated with crossing the border in Eastern bloc countries.
The more general concept of recreation as relaxation, mainly in sleep, appears in several other works: while Jens Klein exhibits found photographs of sleeping Germans from 1932–1992, Manji Ebert and Steffen Köhn deal with sleep and intimate relaxation in connection with live Internet streams.
The third, the least intuitive concept of recreation as appropriation, is essential for most exhibited works, including re-created found photographs, videos, footage from Yugoslavian films, and Instagram posts by Ai Weiwei. Thus, the exhibition curators present not only the usual concept of recreation as “being busy with leisure”, when we are entitled to rest from work, but also the emancipatory potential of recreation as a moment of active transformation of the existing forms and standards.
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Content
- ––– Editorial
- Editorial
- ––– Introduction
- Investigating Investigations
- ––– Project
- Jesper Alvaer & Isabela Grosseová
- ––– Profiles
- Davor Konjikušić
- Mathieu Asselin
- Martin Netočný
- Zdena Kolečková
- Groupe Guma Guar
- Tomáš Kajánek
- Stanislav Krupař
- DARST
- Rob Hornstra & Arnold Van Bruggen
- Zdeněk Tmej
- Tytus Szabelski
- Andrzej Steinbach
- Maxim Sarychau
- Seba Kurtis
- Peter Fend
- Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
- Mari Bastashevski
- ––– Interview
- Interview Tereza Rudolf with Jiří Žák
- ––– Discoveries
- Petr Strouhal
- John Paul Evans
- Lucia Sekerková a Ivana Šusterová
- ––– Theory
- Paul Frosh
- ––– Events
- Forever and Now - the Format Festival in Derby
- Miss Read: Conceptually Poetic Days at HKW
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Pavel Příkaský & Miroslava Večeřová
- Dušan Šimánek
- Martin Kollar
- Manja Ebert, Paula Gehrmann, Jens Klein, Lebohang Kganye, Clarissa Thieme
- ––– Reviews
- To Collect Pictures in Books
- Nadar's Literary Humoresques
- 12,045 Working Days
- Inside And Outside of Photographs
- Virtual Panopticon: False Mirrors of Social Media
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face