David Kopecký - Food

Zborovská

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: David Kopecký

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 2002

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:26:50
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Audiovisual broadcast (TV, radio): Artyčok.tv
Date of broadcast: 15.2.2013
Link: http://artycok.tv/lang/cs-cz/18045/jidlo?doing_wp_cron=1406837672.0710129737854003906250

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Curated in The Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive programme at Artycok.tv in 2012.

Adopted text on the work: One of the myths about videoart tells that the first art video was created in 1965 by Nam June Paik, when he was going home from a shop by taxi and was enthusiastic about his new portable portapac. Similarly thrilled was probably the architect David Kopecký when he bought a camera, this time a digital one and tried it out in his studio in Zborovská street for the first time. Enchanted both by the technology possibilities and himself, he simply filmed himself having a snack.

He was surely familiar with Andy Warhol’s antifilm Eat (1964) in which the pop-artist Robert Indiana keeps munching for 45 minutes. Likewise the performer Vito Acconci he also used his camera as a mirror. With a fair amount of exhibitionism he looked up at it and made a mockery of whatever. The film shows a relaxed moment and at the same time it is also a record of a studio where the architect paid attention to the space disengagement. We can feel his enthusiasm about new possibilities: „Shooting things is a new category“, the author says in the film and regrets not having filmed the studio ksa in Vienna. He also plans to film the Venice Biennale for which he prepared together with Jan Studený an exhibition about architecture without architects. Then he filmed on video camera or mobile phone other buildings of their architectonic studio and moments from his life. Putting the videos by David Kopecký into the context of art films could appear on the edge but yet I think they bear a curious sensitivity of space perception that should not disappear.
Source of text: Okno do videoarchivu VVP AVU
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová
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