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»Untitled«, 1998
23 x 23 x 32 cm
Material: helmet with Czech crystal visor, fiberglass, textile
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Once a friend told me a story about a saint who while walking along a lane encountered a young man driving a Mercedes. As he was passing the older man, he asked him, "Where are you going?" The saint replied, "I am walking along this path. And where are you heading, my friend?" "To Paradise. I bought myself this fast car so I can get there as soon as possible." |
»Panasonic Emotions«, 2002
Material: SD Audio Player Panasonic, reproducers, mini-amplifier
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Panasonic Emotions Testing Line is a new product from the "nomadic" development designer Jiří Černický and Panasonic. The commercial goal of this
product line is to grasp the issue of the emotional deficits in society,
and to offer prospective customers alternative "emotions" from the Panasonic Company. • The means that allow for the expression of these emotions is an interactive SD audio-prosthesis. This is a substitute, personal container for the emotions of users who are not able, or do not want, to experience life through their own emotional perceptions. This new device resembles a Walkman-type device with headphones that does not play music inside, but rather outside, of the head. The device facilitates the user's emotional communication with the world around him. It is not designed for his/her personal use only; on the contrary, it is equipped with a tiny amplifier. • The memory of the SD Audio Player chip card contains a great amount of data containing recordings of authentic human emotions. For instance, if the user finds himself in a situation where he has to argue with someone, yet he does not want to get into confrontation and to waste his own emotions, he locates a password on his SD Audio Player representing an appropriate emotional response, which he then applies accordingly. • The SD Audio Player is a highly interactive device that can also record and thus appropriate the emotions of other people. Such recordings, including those from movies, can be further edited and modified on a computer. In this way, the user can appropriate the emotions that are conveyed by celebrities and other prominent individuals. Therefore, the range of recordings can vary substantially. Let's mention at least some of these emotions: "sniveling, peevishness, sobbing, moaning, crying, gradual emotional collapse, breakdown, yelling by a beaten person, the state of mind between laughter and crying, the hysterical family argument from Fellini's film Amarcord, pubescent giggling, comforting and fondling of a baby, a feeling of well-being, enthusiastic effusions, wearing somebody out, cuddling, soothing, etc." | ||
»Pincushion (daily voodoo)«, 2004
Material: cloth, metal, glass
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