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Indepth Arts News: "passages—passagen—pasaze" 2007-12-08 until 2008-02-09 Gandy Gallery Bratislava, , CZ Czech Republic
passages—passagen—pasáže is an exhibition that pays tribute to Walter Benjamin‘s poetic
theory about passages amidst a booming postsocialist economy. As a city marked by the
construction of passages in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bratislava is the point of departure
for the exhibition and the videos are featured in the public space of Panenska street. Far from
being historically obsolete, market economy shows itself a historical force of unprecedented
vigor in former Warsaw pact societies and most of all so in Bratislava, capital of the Slovak
Republic, the most advanced "new economy" in eastern Europe.
To bring the concept of passage a step further, Nadine Gandy has invited 3 international art
centers to participate in passages—passagen—pasáže. Concurrently to the presentation
of the videos in Bratislava in December, the works are transmitted electronically to Single
Screens located in the musée du Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Goethe Institut in New York
and g-mk art center in Zagreb. The softwareemployedforthetransferofthevideosis
made possible by open-PLAYER (www.open-player.com), a new and innovative technology
that ensures playback and transmission online of video content in broadcast quality (high
definitionincluded).
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