ARTIST PROFILE

Janek Rous

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

ARTIST STATEMENT

In a lot of cases my work mostly deals with different forms of possible perception of the past, affecting and interfering with the present or expected future.
I mainly work with various specific local environments and contexts in which it is possible to demonstrate a more general framework and global problems.

An inseparable part of my recent work are attempts to form cultural and social structures or territories – both temporary and developing within a longer period of time and space.
Through direct or indirect performative means I aim at testing and applying different approaches and models of social structures.

I try to find, overcome or completely eradicate the borders of memory, history, communal spirit, autonomy and free will in general.


BIOGRAPHY

from 2009 working as a chief-editor in artycok.tv, international research, media and digital archive of the contemporary art, research institution focusing on the young and emerging contemporary art scene in the international context

- for artycok.tv works also as a film maker, especially for the series of critically focused documentaries, which aim at symptomatic moments associated with the art scene and its institutional and socio-political background and provide material for further study