Matěj Smetana
Document of organised improvisation
This piece is personal because I myself took part in the production of Matěj Smetana’s video. He started by writing and calling his friends with request to bring anything to his party, which they would like to have animated in his new video. Smetana made the event very personal: actors whom he liked would bring things they liked and would do whatever they wanted with them.
Because only about half of the invited people turned up, he didn’t plan to do a show with objects pretending to be high art. Despite that, a strange collection came together. My puppet with a head, body and limbs looked almost strangely normal on the heap with a tank, an axe, a model of the human body for the purpose of biology teaching at a basic level, a laptop and other things..
#11 Performance
Content
- ––– Profiles
- Petra Skoupilová
- Kateřina Šedá
- Nina Beier & Marie Lund
- Isabela Grosseová & Jesper Alvaer
- Barbora Klímová
- Martin Zet
- Elżbieta Jabłońska
- ––– Theory
- Pavlína Morganová's interview with Marina Abramović
- ––– Events
- Transphotographiques 2008 in Lille
- Rencontres d'Arles 2008
- ––– Reviews
- Koudelka's testimony of the Invasion
- Photogeny of Identity: Memory of Czech photography and the world behind the mirror
- ––– Portfolios
- Václav Stratil
- Jiří Surůvka
- Irwin
- Ulay
- Jiří Kovanda
- ––– Tendencies
- Pavel Ryška
- Barbora Tichá
- George Hladík
- Silvina Arismendi
- Ivars Gravlejs
- Matěj Smetana
Archive
- #45 hypertension
- #44 empathy
- #43 collecting
- #42 food
- #41 postdigital photography
- #40 earthlings
- #39 delight, pain
- #38 death, when you think about it
- #37 uneven ground
- #36 new utopias
- #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