Artists in a Cage (in the Zoo)
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- Artists in a Cage (in the Zoo)
- Umjetnici u kavezu (u zološkom vrtu)
- 1976-1999
- 2 b&w and 6 color photographs, hand-written proposal for the exhibition-action, various dimensions
Artists in the Zoo cage. They are watched but they also take advantage of the position to watch the audience from a metaphoric place, to each other the artists and the audience are monstrously interesting, like the evolutionary other. We are to each other exceedance, presence and pray of metaphors. May the world forgive us for the contamination with language? The image of the Zoo creates a circle by abolishing symbolism. There remains the interaction of discourse, mildly put, and cultural strata. At last, people are watching each other carefully thanks to the chosen setting of the evolutionary other. It is at the same time an extreme example of uselessness, redundancy of presence of artefacts. V.M.