Vasil Artamonov, Petr Krátký, Tomáš Uhnák - Internacionál

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Vasil Artamonov, Petr Krátký, Tomáš Uhnák

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 2009

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:18:52
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: He Who Laughs
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ/EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Included in the compilation He Who Laughs: Art About the World of Art (edited by T. Nekvindová, S. Sobotovičová). “Art about art” – videos that aim directly at the art world or wend their way through art history. Published in 2013 by the Research Centre of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (VVP AVU).

Archived separately as .avi format.

Adopted text on the work: A direct reference to Andy Warhol’s silent black-and-white Empire (1964) – an uninterrupted eight-hour shot of the famous New York skyscraper and a symbol of capitalist might. The filmmakers have adapted this motif to the Czech Republic, and so in their film the phallus-like tower of Prague’s 1950s-era Hotel Internacionál represents a different power structure: communism. The soundtrack captures the filmmakers’ ironic ruminations on the work’s meaning, as well as their banal banter among friends. Vasil Artamonov worked with Warhol-esque methods in 2005, when he used a static camera to film a skyscraper in Prague’s Pankrác neighborhood.
Source of text: Edice VIDA 4, VVP AVU, 2013
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist