Kordacova

Lucie Kordacova

Lucie Kordacova (Born 1986, Mlada Boleslav, lives and works in London) Lucie graduated from J.E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem in 2013 with fellowship at Universidade do Porto and Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She addresses geopolitical topics and works on site-specific projects or collaborative art. She has exhibited across the Czech Republic and internationally.

Recent exhibitions include: Peripheral Vision, Biennale of young Art at MMOMA in Moscow, (2014); YOU ARE HERE, Kilburn, Kingsgate Gallery, London, (2014), Contextiles-isation, Kalopsia Gallery in Edinburgh, (2014), 3 plus 3 in Ponava Factory in Brno, Czech Republic, (2014); CZECHOSLOVAKIA at Nitra Gallery in Nitra, Slovakia, (2014); The Break, K4 Gallery, Prague, (2014). Her work has been featured among others in the group exhibitions: Bramer’s mansion, Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava in Slovakia, (2013); Open Doors, in Evora, Portugal, (2013); Minimální trvanlivost, Emila Filly Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, (2013). She has been curated group exhibition: Proč si nejdeš hrát s bráchou?, TRAFACKA Gallery, Prague, (2014), CZECHOSLOVAKIA, The Nitra Gallery, Nitra, (2014); BIBIONE, A4, Bratislava, (2014); Zeme v Trojsmysle, A4, Bratislava(2013); Prostor Pameti, A4, Bratislava (2013).

When you don’t fall asleep within 30 minutes get out of the bed for a while and try again later | 2014

Installation, wooden frames, drawings on the paper 210 mm × 297 mm, text

Installation explores the cultural diversity of Kilburn/London and the individuality and social relationships of people living and working there. The main purpose of the work is to comment on coexistence and reflect on Kilburn’s present by creating interpersonal relationships. The installation had an active connection with the community of Kilburn, analysing the expirience of leaving a homeland and the effort to maintain the cultural identity. http://youarehere2014.tumblr.com/

When you don’t fall asleep within 30 minutes get out of the bed for a while and try again later, 2014, installation view, Kingsgate Project Space, London, courtesy the artist and You are here

When you don’t fall asleep within 30 minutes get out of the bed for a while and try again later, 2014, detail, Kilburn’s park, Kingsgate Project Space, London, courtesy the artist and You are here

The Break | 2014

Video-installation, projector, computer, kinect, plasterboard, wooden constraction, gypsum, dimensions variable.

Cooperation with Lucia Kotvanova, Jan Chlup. This interactive installation, consisting of fragmented video projected onto site specific sculpture, was made of three artists who aimed to blend two different approaches to art practice. The object grows from the wall and its surface reminiscent of the structures of crystals and minerals. A different fragment of a video shot of a kitchen is projected onto each part of the surface. These videos are played forward or rewound relative to the position of the viewer in the room and that the viewer can virtually move along the depicted space. This feature allows him to experience connection between time and space. He can observe the object with projections from various angles and positions, he can virtually return back in time and space to observe particular detail, explore various nooks or find out what is happening further „behind boundaries“.

The Break, 2014, installation view, K4 Gallery, Prague, courtesy the artists and K4 Gallery

The Break, 2014, installation view, K4 Gallery, Prague, courtesy the artists and K4 Gallery

The Break, 2014, installation view, MMOMA, Moscow, courtesy the artists

The Break, 2014, installation view, MMOMA, Moscow, courtesy the artists

The Break, 2014, installation view, MMOMA, Moscow, courtesy the artists

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Detail, YMCA, Bratislava, courtesy of the artists

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Installation view, YMCA, Bratislava, courtesy of the artists

Courtesy begins in the home | 2014 Installation : Photos, cardboard, digital print

Cooperation with Lucia Kotvanova.“Universal relationship” is basis for every human relationship, and is everyone’s personal topic. In ideal case, this basis should be autonome zone, but everyone is under influence of his social context. Would be nice to change our past, our cultural context and choose in which social group we would like to grow up. How to change the past?

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Installation view, YMCA, Bratislava, courtesy of the artists

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Installation view, Ponava Factory, Brno, courtesy of the artists

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Installation view, Ponava Factory, Brno, courtesy of the artists

Courtesy begins in the home, 2014, Installation view, YMCA, Bratislava, courtesy of the artists

Bramer Mansion | 2013

Site-specific installation, object 5x3.5m, wood, wooden ledges Cooperation with Lucia Kotvanová. Site specific object was created for a specific location, for the only place in the basement of Bramer Mansion that is affected by daylight.

The only natural light inside comes from a window facing the courtyard, which is causing the light not moving as the Sun moves.

The light in the room is basically unnoticeable. Our work responds to his immobility, intangibility and weakness compared to natural and artificial light. We materialized him, closing him into the box. The wooden construction recreates its “invisible” shape as the light spreads down the room through a small window. The object represents a particular embodiment forms of light, the shape of the space.

Bramer Mansion, 2013, Installation view, Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, courtesy the artists, Photo Michal Hustaty

Bramer Mansion, 2013, Installation view, Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, courtesy the artists, Photo Michal Hustaty

Bramer Mansion, 2013, Installation view, Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, courtesy the artists, Photo Michal Hustaty

CSFR | 2013 Two HD videos Is there any awareness of the Czech nationality around us, among young students of art fields?

Is dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the state in general even a topic among young people?

What a concept of Czechoslovakia means today? What this concept personally means for us, how we perceive it? How diverse are our perceptions of historical events?

20 years after dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and we ask – how this situation is being seen by our generation. People that were born in a state that no longer exists. We research a selected group of people and their relationship to terms such as a state, ethnic, nationality, personal interpretation of history. We’d like to report on state of affairs in it’s whole wide diversity. We’ve divided this project into two parts. First part is a research, in which we ask selected respondents targeted questions focused on their perception of most recent history. This part is aimed to be an objective description of the situation.

Second part – a journey diary – is where we look for answers subjectively. It is based on our hitch-hakeing trip from east to the west through the territory of ex-federation.

This project led to curatorial exhibition concept, taking place this year in both Czech Republic and Slovakia, accommodating 9 artists who were born of last years of existence of Czechoslovakia. They explore multiple individual perspectives on various models of the federation splitting, reasons that caused the splitting of the country and the relationship between Czechs and Slovaks today.

CSFR 2013, stills from the video, HD video, courtesy the artists

CSFR 2013, stills from the video, HD video, courtesy the artists

X-Ring, 2013, Installation view, Na Kalvarii Gallery, courtesy the artists and Na Kalvarii Gallery

X-Ring, 2013, Installation view, Na Kalvarii Gallery, courtesy the artists and Na Kalvarii Gallery

X-Ring | 2013 Cooperation with Eva Novakova. This site specific project was exhibited in the open area close to the gallery “Na Kalvarii” that is settled on the top of the hill on a place called “Porta Bohemica”. After harvest it was exhibited is overview show in Prague, where was the complete collection of all site specific pieces of art which was created during the years for this gallery Na Kalvarii. Despite our artistic concept, the public media reacted as “Crop Circles: Aliens land at Úštěk?” https://vimeo.com/78837997

Site specific installation, 2012, detail, Stankovice, courtesy the artists

Site specific installation, 2012, installation view, Stankovice, courtesy the artists

Site-specific installation | 2012 Cotton, tacks, 6x3x3m

Cooperation with Eva Novakova. Site specific instalation, Symposium “In the gardens” in Staňkovice.

Talking Rooster | 2012 Rooster, MP3 recorder, sound 2’27.

Cooperation with Eva Novakova. “ Talking Rooster “ was created for the symposium “In the gardens” in Staňkovice. Aim of this symposium was to improve a relationship between artists and the general public to create and operate together. All residents of the local village “Stankovce” wanted to take part. It opens up questions such as: where are the boundaries between defending his work in front of the public and try to make the public to correctly understand a real meaning of it? It criticizes conceptual art and procedures that are designed only for the specific audience in the art field-inside of the frame. We wanted to take a natural object that belongs to the countryside and turn it into an absurd artistic object. The talking rooster itself serves confused explanations about what is art. Sentences coming as a sound from inside of this rooster are special noble quotes that are well-known for the people from art-world but have no meaning for the general public. We chose texts from Czech well-known artists, out of context, explaining what the art is. As a result, the artwork itself explains how it wants to be understood.

Talking Rooster, 2012, Installation view, Stankovice, courtesy the artists

Talking Rooster, 2012, Detail, Stankovice, courtesy the artists

Lucie & Lucia | 2012

Processual experimental performance, Video 13”46’, paper diaries Cooperation with Lucia Kotvanová. The art of cooperation as a form or way of making an artwork either making it together or within a team of artists, dealing with collective identity and author identity of art couples. Analysing ways of cooperation and participation, idea of borders – either geopolitical or personal intimacy borders and social conventions are our main interest.

Physically connected with stranger by a 50cm long chain for a term of 14 days. This art work introduces an artificial connection of two strangers, almost unknown to each other, into active personal relationship, using a physical chain. This is a experiment that develops during 14 days of active connection and analyse how change of physical connection affects the human psyche. Motivation to create this experimental process for us was the experience of loss of intimacy itself, blending of two lives in one and adapting to each other. New barriers have come up during this experiment which made us conscious about basic and routine tasks. Main topic of this project is coexistence. It reflects current situation in terms of creating interpersonal relationships, using new technologies for modern ways communication which is causing absence of direct social contact. This project also deals with the topic of current situation in partnerships and social relationships and comments the way of creating and vanishing of relationships as a criticism of “relationship consumption”. Part of this project was also a diary writing. Output of this processual performance is projection that consists of two individually recorded videos and static shots.

Lucie&Lucia, 2012, installation view, The Nitra Gallery, Nitra, courtesy the artists

Lucie&Lucia, 2012, stills from video, courtesy the artists https://vimeo.com/57977929

Freedom square | 2012 HD video, digital prints

“Freedom square is one of the last authentic spaces in the centre of Bratislava proposed in socialism era. It stands out with its formal workmanship corresponding with time of its creation/design in 1970s and placing in 1979-80. Its current neglected state and out-of-order monumental fountain reflect our inability to face our history of the socialism era. We find it valuable and noteworthy that the square has kept its appearance and has been preserved in its original state up to date.

Should we change it?…”

Bod 0, Verejny podstavec

Freedom square, 2012, digital print

Freedom square, 2012, stills from video, courtesy the artist https://vimeo.com/81905491

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