Ľuboš Kotlár: last summer i have fallen in love madly

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Where:

• Summer pool Mičurín,

  • Búdková 3547/2, 811 04 Bratislava

When:

• 17. 10. 2024, 17:00-20:00

  • fb event

 

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Production team:

• architecture/production: Gabriela Smetanová
• sound: NaiKavols
• voiceover: Jana Kovalčíková
• text: Ľuboš Kotlár, Gabriela Smetanová
• text correction: Katarína K. Cvečková
• lighting dizajn: Juraj Čech
• object production: holyhotpunx, Juraj Rattaj
• catering: Štefan Sekáč

 

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Annotation:

"A pool full of water attracts attention. It's probably the purity, shine, depth and what it offers - refreshment, joy, but also being with others. Without water, it becomes a kind of empty monumental vessel, only a motionless concrete structure remains. As if his potential had been exhausted and he had become an incomplete version of himself. Every sight of an abandoned pool gives me a sense of anticipation. In some ways, he is like a theater scene before the beginning of a performance, as if he is ready for something spectacular that is yet to happen. As if the space that once pulsated with life, laughter and joy remained immersed in silence and solitude. Perhaps we hide empty swimming pools precisely because they remind us of absence, untapped potential and lost possibilities. When the originally meaningful/functional pool object loses its primary/original purpose, it becomes an empty form capable of receiving new contents. Stimulates imagination, stimulates irrational collective memory. It acquires a new value, a new way of social usability, which is formed autonomously. Events and ideas can take shape in this space outside of customary rules and patterns."

 

 

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Support:

• Supported by public funds stipend through Slovak arts council

• The project was financially supported by the Bratislava City Foundation