Video
installation in Public Space, 2001
Video, colour, stereo
sound; MM Projector; projection 9/6 m.
The video shows a close up of the author’s head decorated
with the symbols of war in Indian tradition. It is spinning around
its vertical axes in an endless, hypnotic rhythm that is being accompanied
by a monotonous author’s monologue on the background of ritual Indian
shaman music.
“To whom it may concern” is an artwork created for screening on the
architecture of a public space. Being related to the public environment,
the installation uses the language of promotion and media propaganda.
Still, it is not part of an advertising campaign presenting consumable
objects, neither it is a part of an official political campaign. It
rather expresses the personal position of the artist, which is a position
of resistance. It is a message appealing for war with everyone and
everything, including the talking subjects. It is an irrational war,
a gesture of symbolic order. It is a voice from the ghetto, from the
reserve for vanishing spices.
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Presented in the frameworks of
"Makro Video" - Video Installations in Public Space,
2001, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG
go to the doc. of Makro
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