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Alternative Society, 1996
Traffic, CAPC, Bordeaux, France, 1996
Plaster, steel, water, wood, lights
Note: Burn Out aimed at systematically attacking frozen images of reality. This includes the principles of organisation that we usually perceive as models for community and society. Alternative Society was our contribution to the Traffic exhibition, which was the critic Nicolas Bourriaud’s attempt to put on display his ideas of relational aesthetics. The piece contained a synthetic landscape with organically shaped huts of plaster, a little pond, and an area with tables, benches and kitchen equipment – all set on a platform. The intention was that we should live in this setting for two weeks and that visitors would be able to meet us in the Alternative Society and discuss the implications of the piece as well as other alternative models of society. However, after
the three day opening, once all the events and performances were over, the exhibition metamorphosed into a wholly traditional exhibition. We were the only artists still present at the exhibition, which meant that the status of our project was somehow altered. We were reduced to actors performing in a sculpture. So we left Bordeaux much earlier than planned, a bit disappointed about the possibilities for relational aesthetics.
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