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Cut for New Era: Artistic Open Form II / The Tailor´s Workshop by Jan Pfeiffer
1. 5. 2020 – 30. 6. 2020 / Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region / Kutná Hora
15 participants
Cut for New Era: Artistic Open Form II / The Tailor´s Workshop by Jan Pfeiffer
1. 5. 2020 – 30. 6. 2020 / Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region / Kutná Hora
15 participants
The visual project Cut for a New Suit (for a New Era) was created during the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main impression of the time was that there was a need to transform the established practices, both outside and inside, in society and in the family. The project contains video and segments centred around it, which can be grouped with subtle nuances of meaning: collages, objects and transformation objects. The video emphasizes tailoring crafts as a metaphor for the place in space of quarantine. It is a place where things created should fit you, they are being tried on and shaped to perfection, tailor-made clothes are the goal of creation here. There are fabrics on the shelves as a symbol of possibility accumulation. A master tailor uses a meter, scissors and chalk as a master of craftsmanship and initiation. The main, static character of the video is an old man - a tailor: his face and voice initiate and connects and transforms all segments. His authoritative voice provides viewers with instructions on how to sew a new fitting suit for a new era. Is it serious or ironic?
“We live in a society of instructions, so I chose a form of instruction on how to behave and act in the new era. It was based on the inescapable feeling that social networks have recently been full of instructions for everything as if people didn't know how to do it themselves. I have found that a project can also have an educational effect if we also consider education as a cultural artefact and a space for the emergence of meanings. Therefore, I later shared the creative process with other children (in cooperation with GASK) and currently I assigned/handed over the topic to the students of the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University. Interesting individual variations occurred and thus the project grows.” Jan Pfeiffer, artist in the AMASS
A Cut for a New Suit became a creative incentive for teachers and pupils at schools and galleries and museums whose cultural activities have been paralyzed by one-year lock-down.
Collaborating culture institution: Central Bohemian Gallery (GASK) is an important center for modern art, whose educational activities are aimed not only at standard audiences, schools, and children of all ages, but also at audience groups with special needs - it connects all these audiences into collaborative creative teams. Gallery Education Department is led by Karin Vrátná Militká.