The final hemisphere is that of a plane, perpetually taking off
and landing-the image is projected on the widest wall of the gallery.
This performance, [airlines], took place on 03.04.1999, the date
coinciding with the war in Yugoslavia. The initial concept of this
performance wasn't meant to correspond to the events that were currently
taking place, but in as much the show was compiled of the collective
works of several artists, there manifested from the group a mutual
idea to emphasise the essential intersection between their artistic
composition and real-life issues of war. Therefore, the performance
appeared to be a [military performance] which simultaneously took
place with the real war in Yugoslavia. It thus appeared to be consistent
with artistic and purely art input, which was combined and penetrated
with somewhat depriving sight of the parallel, desolated military
world. the world, that was clearly reflected through the physical
framework of the installation.
It was the synthesis that took place in the crowded room, with
the tang of glamour and of the fetish of observing the glamorous
black dresses, and hearing good music, and of the external profundity
of the violent military uniform. All of a sudden, the gallery appeared
to be plugged to the online web of an extended consciousness, which
encloses not only local space, but also parallel space.
The performance emphasized the space that exists in an active manner
through television and other formal means of information, and is
linked into society through sources other then those mentioned,
in order to deliver public awareness in its ruts. Once the information
was spread through the audience in terms of artistic approach, it
immediately penetrated and turned into a new form of compassionate
feedback
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