The Common
Day, 2008, (with Michaela Rázusová Nociarová), 1`35`
The
Common Level 4, 2003, 11`20``
The
Common Level 3, 2001 (with Michaela Nociarova), 1`34``
The
Common Level 2/ I Have (Been) Walked, 2003, 4'12''
The Common Level 2 / I Have (Been) Watched, 2001,
20`
The
Common Level 1, The Path from My Reality to your Picture, 1999/2000
(with Michaela Nociarova), 19`56``
The Common
Day, 2008, (with Michaela Rázusová Nociarová), 1`35`
is a 2nd part of the collage of small videonarratives which is derived from
our common video from 2003 (between November 12th, 2002 and December 20th,
2003). It is again about the common activities during a regular day. Visual
mosaic in the pulsing rhythm of the day partially encloses fragments of the
simple activities as well as the stills covering longer time period with narrative
structure.
The Common
Level 4, 2003, 11`20``
The Common Level 4 was made during my Fulbright stay in Boston, USA. It is
divided into 3 parts:
First Part: Let Me Walk Your Way (2`59``) was made in cooperation
with visual artist Kevin Hamilton. Kevin films his walk through the streets
of Urbana, IL, while discribing his movements to me on his cell phone. At
the same time, in Boston, MA, I walk according to his directions, I imitate
his path, following his rhythm. His movements are my movements.
Part Two: Let Me In (2`35``) moves inside as my friend John
Tubbs describes his movements through his house in Illinois to me on the phone.
He describes hi environment to me, as I follow his movements through my house
in Boston, MA. I imagine seeing what he sees.
Part Three: Let Me Be You (6`26``) a distance has been collapsed
to the gap between one person's brain and another person's hands. This is
a short sequence from the life of John Kelly who can only move his body via
second person. During six months I worked for him he manipulated his environment
through my hands.
His requests became my intensions and my movements were fine tuned by further
directions in an ongoing feedback loop.
The Common
Level 3, 2001 (with Michaela Nociarova), 1`34``
The Common Level 3 is another piece I made together with Michaela Nociarova.
It is an attempt to connect our favorite hobbies and at the same time to express
the possibilitz of co-existence of two absolutely different entities. There
can be seen parallels with Jesus' walk on the water. We had it in our minds
together with an idea to create just a simple funny game that can be played
with what we call “reality”.
The Common
Level 2/ I Have (Been) Walked, 2003, 4'12''
The Common Level 2 / I Have (Been) Walked is the folow-up of the part 1: I
Have (Been) Watched. I am an observer and I am beeing observed again. The
split screen shows me walking with camera fixed on my head beeing filmed at
the same time from behind and my “inner” view taken with that camera. I have
made this piece during my Fulbright stay in Boston, USA.
The Common
Level 2 / I Have (Been) Watched, 2001, 20`
I Have (Been) Watched ... in / from the window of my appartment observing
the real state of the street - nothing is going on - nobody anywhere - returning
to this window everyday I wouldn't be able to find anything more interesting
than this silent emptiness without a trace of some story worth watching. It
is never possible to anticipate what will happen but there are some principles
emerging. When there is somebody going up the street there is somebody going
down the stree for sure.
And once there was somebody in the opposite window and once not. 24 hours
of the street is never ending story with perfect scenario consisting of everything,
free of useless unreal story lines which only make the reality unclearer.
It is enough just to stand by the window and watch it. In my head there is
a beautiful entry of that reality which I perceive and which I am part of.
And in between there is almost invisible border and I apper once in front
of it and once behind. And I never know where actually I am at the moment.
Is that me who is watching or again that phobia of that I am beeing watched?
The Common
Level 1, The Path from My Reality to your Picture, 1999/2000
(with Michaela Nociarova), 19`56``
There is a Real Picture and Picture of a Reality. We have cell phones and
video cameras fixed on our heads. One of us is outside watching the river,
climbing the tree, ridding a bike or playing the drums shooting everything
with the camers and talking to the other one on the phone. The other one is
in the studio trying to understand and paint according to the words she hears
on the phone. The two films are the result of this attempt to think and act
at the same time. The viewer is the judge comparing how far we have got on
the way from “reality” to “its picture” and the final outcome runs in his
head while watching these two films. The process which usually takes place
in one person we have divided in two.