Kristyna and Marek Milde

Alienators, 2023, video stills from the 6min two-channel video animation, music by Michael Vignola – Bending Gravity

The video animation Alienators, 2023 by Kristyna and Marek Milde is an entry into a utopian-dystopian outer space filled with flying fantastic satellites and spaceships created with a photo collage of modernist buildings. In the gallery, this two-channel animation is projected onto two opposite walls in a large format, thus creating the impression of outer space.

The work is based on the author’s collages of the same name, in which the artists reflect on the alienating influence of modernist architecture on urban space. Some buildings look like alien structures that accidentally landed in the landscape of our cities without a sense of gravity and what is up and what is down.  Habitat as a biotope, urban environment, or residential block thus becomes a place for different narratives. The authors point to the frequent insensitivity of urban planning to the ecological and historical context of the place, which disrupts the fragile network of social and non-human relationships. The video revisits the past and future of architecture and explores the monstrosity of modernist buildings. What would a possible relocation of our civilization to other planets look like? The modern period was imbued with cosmic optimism, which was not fulfilled even after several decades. Therefore, in the video, the artists satirically transform modernist buildings into spaceships that can float freely into space.

Text by the curator Mgr. art Katarína Balúnová, ArtD, and Kristyna and Marek Milde 

Alienators, 2023, excerpt from the 6min two-channel video animation, music by Michael Vignola – Bending Gravity

Alienators, 2023, excerpt from the 6min two-channel video animation, music by Michael Vignola – Bending Gravity

Alienators, 2023, excerpt from the 6min two-channel video animation, music by Michael Vignola – Bending Gravity