ARTIST PROFILE

Janek Rous

  • Czech Republic (b. 1981 in Prague)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
interview

interview

  • 2015
  • 43 min, 30 sec

  • Live broadcast interview with a fictional contemporary artist, whose answers are a compilation of texts of Czechoslovak artists from the 1960s.

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    interview | 2015

...We are born with a personal perception of the world. However, from our early days we are exposed to brutal and violent upbringing of old people. Why do we always hear "Just you wait, life will teach you a lesson!" whenever we express ourselves freely. We defend ourselves, we become neurotic. We either give up or put up with it. If we are born this way, then why should we insist on our world-view, our perception of the world? Just by not doing it we acknowledge this truth. Or does anybody feel that this is a disease? Who keeps burdening his conscience with supressing it? There are many of us all over the world who feel the same. They are great models who foretold the arrival of a new era. There are new uprisings and revolts which confirm that the tyranny of the old way of thinking is strong. However, I declare - let this manifestation exist. Or does anyone feel that this is a disease? Who keeps burdening his conscience with supressing it? There are so many of us all over the world who feel the same. There are great models who foretold the arrival of a new era. There are new uprisings and revolts which confirm that the tyranny of the old way of thinking is strong. We do not know where we came from, whose descendants we are and therefore we have the right to express ourselves the way we do. Each of us went through a different process of maturing and forming a world-view. It is not possible not to tolerate the other side. This era was foretold by scientists, technology and artists fifty years ago. Inadequacy of education - in addition education for the old world - if we are to know the ropes, then we need new methods, let´s stop that nonsense! Old ideas must die away and they are already dying away but they are accompanied by the sound of fanfares but only by watered down fanfares. It is the beginning of a new sensitivity towards the surrounding world. …