Waste paper
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- Waste paper
- Papír
- 1975
- 3 b&w photographs mounted on paper
- each 23,3 x 18 cm
Dvořákovo nábřeži, Prague 1
In his performance entitled "Waste," Karel Miler crouches on the ground to gather together paper waste, thus minimizing a pile of material spread out in the corner next to a stone balustrade. With this reference to the laws of entropy, Miler poetically focuses on aspects of randomness and disorder that can be changed but not fully measured while energy is being released. As a key figure in early Czech performance art, Miler provided inspiration to the next generation of artists—among them Jiří Kovanda, who carried out a thematically similar performance only two years later that involved raking together waste with his hands to form a pile and subsequently once again scattered the waste around him with his feet, thereby symbolically obscuring the trajectory of entropic processes. W.S.
In his performance entitled "Waste," Karel Miler crouches on the ground to gather together paper waste, thus minimizing a pile of material spread out in the corner next to a stone balustrade. With this reference to the laws of entropy, Miler poetically focuses on aspects of randomness and disorder that can be changed but not fully measured while energy is being released. As a key figure in early Czech performance art, Miler provided inspiration to the next generation of artists—among them Jiří Kovanda, who carried out a thematically similar performance only two years later that involved raking together waste with his hands to form a pile and subsequently once again scattered the waste around him with his feet, thereby symbolically obscuring the trajectory of entropic processes. W.S.