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Performance "CATERING FOR REALITY / Noah’s pedestrian crossing’’ 

Work performed as urban performance 29.11.2005 Novi Sad

This scene has grown in surreal way directly from almost forgotten childhood imagination, from the concrete micro social context and was anchored in it, published by its own event. It takes place in the city, at the crossroads, real place that primarily implies direct "walking" communication, including the daily "live passing" of people and characters in whose pantheon of archetypal established and confirmed symbols of childhood and toys inevitably there is a boat. With its form and shape it is established exactly to the level of here in reality present initiated ready-mades sample that works and inspires, as can be seen from the attached. This unique catering for reality confirms our imaginative lethargy. By redacted procedure, such copy-paste operation was performed in remarkably accurate manner from a geographically and climatically inadequately defined area, taken from a file of clear subconscious desire of majority of the present passers-by, a fragment of such desire in the context of consequence that initiates the cause was moved to an unexpected place, exactly where it cannot exist in reality. To our new "metaphysician", car driver and passer-by, as if the offered alternative overcame the very notion of the incident, leaving the dilemma: which way or which sea with memories from childhood to sail away?