Exploring the folkloric and politicised nature of one’s ancestry, this project is a multi-media tapestry of camcorder footage, voice memos, archives and film photography. Touching on borders of the relationship to place, language & histories.
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The Czech version of the BBC, ČT, has screened a children’s show at 7pm every night since 1965. Growing up, I watched the same shows as my mother did when she was young, from stories about little water fairies, talking rats, and bumblebees, to water goblins smoking pipes, trapping souls, and dancing bears. My childhood was imbued with both lighthearted and eerie tales that bind both the democratic and Soviet-era born generations.
This is a gathering of my memories from that time, watching nightly shows that both scared and excited me with their humour and lessons. For the forests and streams of Pec pod Sněžkou that I remember like the back of my hand, and the almighty Krakonoš - the folkloric guardian of the national park - whom I always looked out for amidst the moss and blueberry bushes.
For the stories that bind me and the generations before me.
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The Czech version of the BBC, ČT, has screened a children’s show at 7pm every night since 1965. Growing up, I watched the same shows as my mother did when she was young, from stories about little water fairies, talking rats, and bumblebees, to water goblins smoking pipes, trapping souls, and dancing bears. My childhood was imbued with both lighthearted and eerie tales that bind both the democratic and Soviet-era born generations.
This is a gathering of my memories from that time, watching nightly shows that both scared and excited me with their humour and lessons. For the forests and streams of Pec pod Sněžkou that I remember like the back of my hand, and the almighty Krakonoš - the folkloric guardian of the national park - whom I always looked out for amidst the moss and blueberry bushes.
For the stories that bind me and the generations before me.
video, collage, print, soundscapes
moodboard
'Watergoblin' Josef Lada, 1942
Girl in a Folk dress, Josef Uprka, undated
Grandad describing how to make pig rind the farmer's way
prints - A2, matt paper
video collection of children's shows, 1964-2000
