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Milan
Mijalkovic takes full responsibility for all natural disasters of the
last 2,000 years. He furthermore agrees to share the responsibility. To
take full responsibility of 2,000 years of natural disasters is not
an easy choice, yet to Milan Mijalkovic it was a „very natural
happening - just as drizzling rain, or the Arab Spring“.
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A
natural happening, however, with a somewhat difficult and passionate
process of painstaking research beforehand. In the course of 13
years, Milan Mijalkovic collected details of winds, fires, volcano
eruptions, earthquakes, avalanches, epidemics, heat- and cold-waves,
and made them visible to the public. For the last two years,
certificates have been auctioned and traded on the art market as part
of the artist’s collection, approving the individual transfer of
responsibility for selected natural disasters.
Dozens
of archive volumes manage these movements of transfer. Due to this
acts of collecting, organizing, administration and providing
transparency, mother nature becomes sheer art.
Politicians
take responsibility for mishaps and face personal consequences.
Terrorists, in contrast, see a demonstration of power in this act. To
publicly take responsibility for an action, as a terrorist, has
greater meaning than the happening itself. This leads to a point
where several letters of confession appear, and hence responsibly is
claimed illegally.
At
first, the irresponsible message of taking responsibility for all
natural disasters of the last 2,000 years functions as a figurative
meaning, a statement. Thanks to the public sharing and consumption of
it, the stated sphere of influence gains reality. The message is
spread as an objective information on a fact, not as a claim of
responsibility of a confessor in form of a note or a video. The display takes the message out of context from emotional consternation and
hinders, on the surface, the self-evident questions to the relation
of stated and real responsibility and irresponsibility of man and
nature.
2013
Curated by: AUSARTEN[ ]
Auctioneer: Heidulf Gerngross
Thanks to: Karin Sommer, Ismael Israel Ismet Basharan
Photo: Claudio Farkasch
Video: Nouria Behloul
Curated by: AUSARTEN[ ]
Auctioneer: Heidulf Gerngross
Thanks to: Karin Sommer, Ismael Israel Ismet Basharan
Photo: Claudio Farkasch
Video: Nouria Behloul
Copyright: Milan Mijalkovic, 2020