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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

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