Location. In 1992, Linhart’s Foundation initiated the formation of the legendary Roxy club and later also Experimental Space NoD as well as Communication Space Školská 28. All three have been working as sovereign cultural organizations based in Prague 1. Experimental Space NoD offers inexhaustible possibilities for both artistic and social experiments, whether it is an experimental form of theater or the approach to education, learning and undermining prejudice. The space is located within walking distance from the Old Town square and Náměstí Republiky.
Curator. Jiří Machalický – established Czech curator, full-time curator at Nod experimental space
Artist. Lenka Klodová draws inspiration from motherhood, corporeality, and relations between men and women. She is openly concerned with sexuality and everything associated with it. She approaches her subjects sensibly and with due understanding, but also with a robust sense of hyperbole, irony, and humour. She reflects on attributes of female and male beauty, on differences between the two, as well as on differences in our judgments about them. She bases herself on her personal experience but also on standards embraced in that respect during various epochs in the history of art. She is interested in historical transformations of attitudes towards corporeality in the course of the development of human society. She is concerned with the differences between male and female artists´ approaches to sexuality. She likewise examines correlations between artistic expression and pornography, as a form targeting almost exclusively male audiences. In more than a few respects, she reaches beyond some seemingly unencroachable boundaries, thereby impelling us to perceive reality with new eyes.
It is in the plan of the current show to put 6 professional strip dancers into each of the furnished settings, where they then will perform to their personal favorite song, afterwards all the videos combined will create the full exhibition. The last dance date is the evening of the 2nd vernissage.
Personal Opinion. At the moment of our visit it has only been 2 videos in, but the show has had its effect on us immediately as we walked into the video room. The genius of simple shock works great in the context of the show: you walk into a seemingly calm and safe environment of the everyday routine, resembling standard Ikea setting, but as you are exposed to the video, you are suddenly very far out of the comfort zone and in the land of cognitive dissonance. I am not a sexist, but I would love to make a video of people walking into the room, so that later it would be possible to compare the reaction of different gender.
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