Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt

00:00–00:16 [Intro / Titles] ARTYČOK.TV PRESENTS · HIN MAH TOO YAH LAT KEKT · HYNEK ALT · SILVINA ARISMENDI · HANA BUDDEUS · ANTONÍN JIRÁT · JOHANA POŠOVÁ · TOMÁŠ SVOBODA · ALEKSANDRA VAJD · AMU GALLERY / PRAGUE · 09.10–09.11.2014

00:16–00:34 Hana Buddeus: This show took part of Fotograf Festival. In this year the topic of the festival is Seeing is Believing. We kind of were thinking about which show could be really like meant for this festival. And so I realized that in this AMU Gallery I would prepare something that would really be connected to the topic of the festival.

00:34–01:05 At first I asked Hynek Alt and Sasha Vajd to cooperate with me and to make together a show. During this period I was also trying to find out which topic we should make out or what would we do together. And I wrote a few sentences which I want to read you. It is as following:

01:06–01:34 "To capture trace of memory, to find way how to communicate something which is rather just a mere feeling, starting with imagination, not seeking her exact definition in language, but letting intuition to speak, to forget civilization and feel the earth underneath one's feet again, to look at E.S. Curtis' photographs and think what the world looks like to someone who has never seen any photographs, and who says that men who work cannot dream."

01:35–01:59 So this was kind of beginning of thinking about the exhibition. And then, with Hynek Alt and Sasha Vajd, we met together and were talking about the topic, about the photographs of Indians in the early 20th century. And we were kind of trying to search which topic would be interesting for us.

02:00–02:23 And then we realized that it would be interesting to find another people and to ask them whether they would participate with us. So it was kind of play which we played together and were trying to find something when working together.

02:24–03:01 For the Fotograf Festival, we tried to make not only photography shows, but to think about photography. That's the main reason to make the festival. So this is also the reason why you can't see almost no photographs in this exhibition, because what is important for us is to find out what we are in what we are interested in photography and how we are thinking about it. That is much more important for us than to show photographs.

03:02–03:42 This Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt is the name of one Indian chief who was really important chief during the beginning of the 20th century, one of those who... who was... who were the chiefs when the Indians were forced to go to reservations. So we... I just wanted to have here some... to memorize him or to have here some memory to... and some connection to the first topic which we were talking about in the beginning.

03:43–03:54 [Outro / Credits] BY GIULIO ZANNOL · Artyčok.TV 2014