Křižovnická škola čistého humoru bez vtipu / Crusader School of Pure Humour without Jokes - Untitled

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Křižovnická škola čistého humoru bez vtipu / Crusader School of Pure Humour without Jokes

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: documentation -

DATES

Date of creation: 1971

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:03:09
Sound: Silent

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: Czech Performance Art: Film and Video 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ + EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Film by: Rudolf Němec
Appearances by: Eugen Brikcius, Duňa Brikciusová (Slavíková), Jana Cibulková, Jan Steklík
Digitized black-and-white 8mm film without sound

Adopted text on the work: Painter Rudolf Němec, who is usually associated with the new figuration of the 1960s and 1970s, was part of the inner circle of the Crusader School of Pure Humour Without Jokes. The group’s pub gatherings were loosely intertwined with their various actions and projects. Wellknown examples include the systematic collection of beer samples in Beer in Art and Crusaders’ Calendar from 1972, for which Helena Wilsonová photographed the attendees of the regular gatherings at the U Svitáků pub in Prague’s Old Town. Němec’s film shows an unnamed action of the Crusader School realized by Jan Steklík, Eugen Brikcius, Duňa Slavíková (then Brikciusová), and Jana Cibulková, who in the second half of the 1960s ran the Václav Špála Gallery while Jindřich Chalupecký was head of its programming committee. The action was held as part of a land art symposium at Lemberk Castle, probably in 1971. As was their habit, the members of the Crusader School spent their time at the pub, and since they were at a land-art symposium they created a miniature pub-based work of land art resembling a Stonehenge made of cigarettes and matches. Playing with semantic changes was typical of the Crusader School, as was the unclear delineation of events that grew out of one person’s spontaneous idea and was then developer and variegated by the entire community. In their openness – in terms of both authorship and chronological delimitation – they are happenings in the purest sense of the word, although this term is rarely applied to the Crusaders’ activities. The film record of this happening, whose name is unknown, was found on a strip of film in Němec’s posthumous estate. The digitized version of this original film materiál is being shown without any additional alterations.
Source of text: České akční umění: Filmy a videa 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Author of text: Pavlína Morganová, Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

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