Musíme si promluvit o zbraních?
| Title in English | Do we need to talk about guns? |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In 2023, a collective of authors consisting of the theater group 8lidí and artist Jiří Žák presented the theater production We Love Shooting at the Display Gallery, to which this publication is dedicated. The production itself serves as a starting point for broader reflections on the themes of the play, such as the history of the Czechoslovak and Czech arms industry and its exports to countries in the Global South, or the close relationship with Syria during the period of real socialism. In addition to the author's reflection on creative strategies in the creation of documentary theater that deals with complicated issues, the book touches on "our" attitude toward weapons, war, militarization, geopolitics, and refugees from the perspective of disciplines such as artistic research, historiography, sociology of visual culture, and political science. We Love Shooting engages in a polemical dialogue with the idea of the Czech Republic as a non-violent, peaceful country where people with a "dovish" nature live. How does this idea fit in with the reality of a robust arms industry, which has been a tradition in our country since the 19th century? What do we export abroad and why? And where does violence actually reside? |
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