By the Use of Automatic Machines to the Leisure Time, Culture Material and Spiritual, Human Self-improvement, Health, Tranquility, Peace, Inner Life and Liberation in the Freed, Saved, Renewed and Freshly Created Nature of Renaturalized Landscapes

The title of the video and the pictorial motifs quote the diagram that closes the pictorial part of the theoretical book Obytná krajina (The Inhabitable Landscape, Prague 1947) by the Czech avant-garde architect Ladislav Žák. The original diagram is a drawing where the individual pictographs stand for machine (a wagon wheel), public education (a book), nature (a tree) and liberation (the Diogenes’ cask) and it is accompanied by the text used as the title of the video. Each of the four video clips paraphrasing the original pictographs was downloaded from the commercial image bank. The unfulfilled new avant-garde concept of progress is reintepreted in the form of the hyper-aestheticized digital moving image.