Synopsis:
“The video performance Ego / Land Spiritual Gardening is based on Slavic pagan rituals which were supposed to ensure the fertility of the land and consequently a better future. It‘s burial, offering, prayer and forecast at the same time. The can of meat symbolizes something what used to be alive, and currently it‘s just food or an object. The Artist buries the food / can as an offering to the earth. An old text from Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century Karel Jaromir Erben illustrates the whole performance: „I came out to the world from the ground. It‘s the land where I found my mind. Still walking like a man.
I will be buried back in the ground again.“ We all want a good future. Our ancestors prayed for the same thing. They knew how fragile human life is and were aware of its temporality. This feeling of acceptance could be the opportunity to look through the illusion of time and to experience our past and future at the present moment, the opportunity to live our lives with enthusiasm and enjoyment.
Jindřich Max Pavlíček 15 / 9 / 13

This work from Jindřich Max Pavlíček (CZ) was part of the Video Retrospective Cycles in Markt 3, Lutherstadt Wittenberg from 4.10.2013 - 28.12.2013

“Ego / Land Spiritual Gardening”   06’05”min

With a background on graphic design, Jindřich Pavlíček has immersed himself in Visual Arts since 2000, going from drawings to sound and video Installations. As of late, he has been particularly interested in performance reflecting his own existence, while resonating with the surrounding environment. His works convey a link to the Far East, where he undoubtedly would like to return to, indicated by the inner states he catalogues.

He was born and currently based in Hradec Králové. He has been two times already to Lutherstadt Wittenberg on the occasion of the Oversweet Experience residence and production (Feinprobe Honigsüss).

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