My Crystal Dream

musical interactive performance

The French philosopher, Michel Foucault, found a special combination of the notion place (topos), time (chronos), and memory in his text Different Spaces (1967), where he describes the special kind of spaces that are, on the one hand, connected to all other places; but, on the other hand, simultaneously at variance with them. He mentioned two sorts of these places: utopias -- 'unreal' places, whilst heterotopias --'real places', which both reflect other emplacements in society, rather like a mirror.

If you would ask who are the most burlesque, the most popular writers known by every single person in USSR (until now) -- those will be Ilf & Petrov.
The most loved hero of their bestsellers is Ostap Bender or just Bender -- a sympathetic and cool guy, an adventurer whose legendary expressions became nominal.
That is how he describes a place of his dream:

The glamour of the main streets of this city is just as good as are the streets of leading cities in the world -- just imagine... Mulattos, bay, export of coffee, Charleston ... what else to say?!.. One and a half million people and all of them wearing white trousers!


The interaction of the artist with public, the main goal of this performance, is this transcendency proposed to the auditory. The utopian dream of a never existed man, a literature hero, has to be transformed into another reality (a heterotopy) by the public itself. Taking the white trousers (the symbol of this utopia) and posing inside of artificially built space (the dream of Bender) the participant will close this conceptual circle in the moment he will be fixed by photographer.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• contemporary art
• performance
• music
• studio kinematix
• lucia macari
• d.riba