Fumihiko : What did you like about TV in Japan? Did you see any TV programs?

Zole : Some of them at the house.

Prota : Makiko likes to watch TV while he is eating, or after the lunch. So there is coming of... Because the TV is almost on the table. (Skart was staying at Makiko's house at the time.)

Fumihiko : It's true that Japanese houses are very small, so TV is very be present.

Prota : In villages in Serbia, they have also a room for guests. And it's like the best made room, most luxury room in the house. But only when guests coming from the city, or some special guests, then they open the best room, and the guests can stay.


Fumihiko : So they don't use this room?

Prota : No, no, the best rank is with TV, and everything. It's like a kind of presentation room. You will present yourself by having nice guest room.

Fumihiko : When you were a child, you tried to enter the room?

Prota : I was in the city. But I could stay in the guest room in my relative's village.

Fumihiko :You don't call it "holy room"?


Prota : We call it "guest room", but it's kind of holy place, you don't use it, it's only for guest. So, you don't have so much, but in this room, you have everything.

Zole : Also in Crepaja, 50km from Belgrade, there is an elementary school which we collaborate. It's very nice, because most of the village kids, they have no opportunities to have guests from some other fields.

Prota : We always present them our new documentation for our new trips. And for them, most exciting presentation was Japanese plan, about Kanazawa and Osaka. It was so colorful and different stories. It was kind of surrealistic, rhythm of switching place to place, from reality to reality.

Fumihiko : How many times have you tripped?

Prota : Once a month, no, less, less. Because we have been in Belgrade.

Fumihiko : In this time, you are going to show Korean city.

Prota : And Tokyo.

Fumihiko : Is there any difference between Korea and Japan?

Zole : Yes. In Korea, there are some streets in the center. Such a light on the sub small Korean streets in the center. So many lights. Very impressive. They have much more street selling things. People who are selling foods, fortune-telling...


Fumihiko : At night, there are so many people eating and drinking on the street.

Prota : But I think Tokyo is sophisticated, comparing with Seoul. So Seoul looks on the way from, let's say, any kind of chaotic megalopolis into systematic city like Tokyo is already.



Fumihiko : Do you have something project, residency program in foreign countries?

Prota : We've never thought about to have something for something. We are still in process of different other things. I don't know, if it's happen, I will make it...

Fumihiko : Most of artist residency is argue. Because he has nothing special. Most of artists like to go to Akihabara, Nikko-famous place...

Prota : Recently we've been in a boring castle in Solitude, out of Stuttgart, beautiful but kind of out of renewality, and there we created embroidery project. I think that it's very important to have emptiness for your creation. Whatever it is. Because of boredom, Zole and me spoke a lot.

Zole : It's a perfect place, if you have an idea. When you have an idea what to do, but you don't have space, time and money. Just sit, without any problems.



Links to the artists:
Skart:
http://www.skart.org
Horkeskart:
http://www.horkeskart.org.yu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo:
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/english