There is an exhibition in prison. It is called CRACK.
Catalog of the Group exhibition at the former prison in Weimar MFA-Programme "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies" in 2015.
Catalog of the Group exhibition at the former prison in Weimar
MFA-Programme "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies" in 2015.
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Art Key aka Freedom Crack
Antonije Burić
“At least during the regime of Slobodan Milosevic,
we had someone to fight against.”
-Someone from the ex-Yugoslavian R’N’R scene
Let me say from the very beginning: the copy of the prison key should
have been made out of steel.
Artists came to prison after it closed. The place is an instrument of
oppression; a symbol of fighting against crime. One role is justified, the
other is not. I am interested in its role as an instrument used to punish
and prosecute freedom of speech and expression. So, what are artists
doing in such a place? Using its astonishing yet terrifying environment?
Coming to laugh at the dead body of the oppressor? Or mourn over
the very same body? If art is not political, it tends to be decorative, but
it may be that artists want to express more than one beautifully evoked
marble leaf.
In the movie The Matrix, humanity is asleep while being used as the
power source for AI machines. Their minds are entertained with the
Matrix program which simulates civilization as it is now. Of course there is
resistance outside of the program, fighting a superior machine oppressor.
In one scene, a program in charge of hunting down rebels explains the
true nature of the Matrix.
Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a
perfect human world, where no one suffered and everyone was happy?
It was a disaster; no one would accept the program and entire human
crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming
language to describe your perfect world but I believe that the human
beings define their reality through misery and suffering. A perfect world
was the dream from which your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake
up. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned into this, the peak of your
(capitalistic) civilization”.
Clever?
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