2000, Continuity

2000: After the show in Berlin (Galleria Brötundspiele) I left for Belgrade, to take part in the overthrowing of Milosevic’s regime. Purposefully, I did a performance at the “Centre for Cultural Decontamination”, which was the headquarters of the intellectual opposition and of the anti-war political struggle. The performance consisted of a diagonal of plastic flowers that cut across the main wall and a black table in front of the adjoining wall, onto which I got for the spoken part with the metamathematical axiom 0 ≠ 0, (considered by metamathematicians themselves to be the “Bastard Axiom”). The conversation touched upon the politics of Belgrade and politics in general, underlining all the intellectual uneasiness of the time, particularly of art and cultural populism during Milosevic’s power, but not only of Milosevic and Serbia, but also of post-modernity and its products of the “distorted mirror” and globalist liberalism. 

2001: I made a three-minute video on the formula of depleted uranium and the “bastard formula”, which toured around many international exhibitions (Athens, Moscow, New York) including the 59th Exhibition of Cinema, of the Venice Biennale. 

2002: I was invited by the Anti-Bossi-Fini Law Committee to participate in the rally at the Faculty of Philosophy of “La Sapienza”. I did a performance in front of the students, “drawing” my own silhouette on the wall: leaning against the wall with my body, with my arm and hand, which was holding a piece of charcoal, I “traced” my body. At the end, the graffito remained as testimony of the artist who rebels, leaving his own trace.

2003: Entscheindunsproblem (performance) in Anguillara – Simonetta Lux + Pino Pascali, Ikeda, Soskic (the black sand that drains, with the bowler hat as writing)