Under The Weather - Tereza Kalousová, Šimon Chlouba

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Under The Weather - Tereza Kalousová, Šimon Chlouba

Under the Weather - Tereza Kalousová, Simon Chlouba

Event by: FaVU VUT

Location: Distillery, Pekařská 436/78, Brno-střed

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Under the Weather
Tereza Kalousová, Simon Chlouba
curator: Pavel Kubesa
15. 10. - 26. 11. 2025 unproductive). The authors use this term as a comparison to the human state at the limit of exhaustion, when the body finds itself in paralyzed inactivity. However, this condition is not understood as a failure, but as a new epistemic interspace: it does not produce results or does not provide hope, but opens the possibility of other forms of attention and sensitivity that becomes a critical tool for the diagnosis of reality. There is a narrow window outside the logic of performance and technological rhythms in which the boundaries arise between what is alive and what is dead.
The work of both artists intersect when the surrounding time becomes static. Air thickens and fatigue turns into the starting point of the perception of the world and its systems. The weight of the daily repetition acts as hypnosis - the eyes slowly close. The rotating ceiling fan seemed to cut the standing time. The duality of the future and the past is gradually disappearing, the vision is already archived.

Performing No Productive Action (Waiting, Blocked, Inactive). The Artists Approprirate This Technical Concept As A Metaphor for a Human Condition on the Threshold of Exhaustion, When the Body Slips and State of Paralyzed Stillness. This state is not seen as failure, but as and the new epistemic in-between: IT produces Neither Results Nor Hope, Yet Opens the Possibility for Another Mode of Attention-and Form of Sensitivity That Becoms and Critical Tool for Reading Reality.
The Work Reveals and Narrow Window Beyond The Logic of Performance and the Rhythms of Technology, Where the Boundary Between What Is Alive and What Is Dead Emerges. The Works of Both Artists Converge at the Moment When Surrounding Time Becomes Static. Air Thickens and Fatigue Transforms Into The Very Ground for Perceiving the World and Its Systems. Everyday repetition Assumes the Force of Hypnosis - Eyes Grow Heavy, Closing. And rotating Ceiling Fan Seems to Carve Through Suspended Time. The Duality of Future and Past Quietly Dissolves and Visions Arise ALREADY Archived.

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