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Zero Uptime

Zero Uptime
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    • Zero Uptime
  • undated
  • video, color, sound
  • 33min, 22sec
The video “Zero Uptime“ is an artistic documentation of Stano Filko’s exhibition „The Fifth Dimension,“ which took place in Bratislava in 1995. For this exhibition, the artist chose the abbreviation “5.D.,” which refers to his five-color system in which the color white symbolizes the fifth and highest order that, for its part, denotes pure transcendence and absolute, super-nonphysical determinateness. The video, shot on VHS tape and artistically packaged, not only scans the mainly white artefacts in the room but is also accompanied by the artist’s own voice, which is heard reciting poem-like sentences that lend this recording an artistic quality beyond mere documentation. Filko speaks of the absolute ontological value of the fifth dimension or highest chakra according to his artistic categorization. The color white references the utmost form of spirituality and an artistic idea evolved out of the concept of the “White Space in a White Space,” which Filko began developing together with Miloš Laky and Ján Zavarský in 1973 and continued working on up to his death. Moreover, Filko explains the artistic developments of an orthographic nature to which his written name was subject over the years, playing with homophonic elements ranging from Filko to Fylko and (at the time of this exhibition) Phylko. W.S.