« Babbling Fools- screening | Main | the nameplate »
April 15, 2008
Art Bollocks
“In the filmed performance, the artists trace, with sticks and string, the outline of the church. This symbolic recuperation, based on a performative understanding of the monument, gains resonance in relation to present-day plans to build a commercial mall on the same site. The bags of concrete, dribbling inert dust, function as a historical hourglass between an unclear 'then' and a problematic 'now', pointing at loss and at entropy that architecture 'constructs' while it seeks to embody power…”
from the Romanian Pavilion, at the 2007 Venice Biennale
Well only I hope their performative understanding of the monument gained enough resonance for a truly meaningful symbolic recuperation.
Posted by john at April 15, 2008 09:36 AM