Jernej Kožar
Karantena
Werkstadt Graz / GLU Slovenj Gradec
1997
http://www.glu-sg.si/kracina/kracinaWG.htm

ANIMALS, LIFE

 

 

days

quarantine

astronomic unity

 

Lascaux –   paintings of the bulls and horses

horse statues since antiquity

antiquity – centaur, horses, bull - Minotaurus,

Middle Ages: tympanums of a portals (France) – monsters; personifications of the Christ: lamb, lioness, pelican, phoenics; Holy Spirit - dove

painters of animals in the Netherlands – 17th century; horses and dogs in England, George Stubbs; (Marino Marini)

 

Every society chooses the animal which corresponds best to its nature and to the environment it lives in, and which is connected to that society only on a symbolic level or on a symbolic and material level – for food and hunting. Today animals are connected to human society on a symbolic level; hunting has been replaced by industrial production, which the contemporary human being no longer links with the rituals. Killing has moved from the mystical into the social context.

 

 Totem

reptile

auto-cannibalism

species

Eyre

coast of New South Wales

Victoria

Dieri

Wotjobaluk

bat

reincarnation

 

 

Animals:

life (here and now, then and elswhere, before and elsewhere ...) – life energy

demiurge – (god does not create but save from decline); makes us see, raises attention

zoo; quarantine: diseases

animals – disease carriers: ticks, rats, foxes, bacteria, monkeys, (mad) cows

Kracina's animals: trout, ant, badger, proteus are (still) clean animals

healthy life, clean life; back to nature

 

Connection: pollution with garbage as pollution with images

hyperproduction of images within the limits of the hyperproduction

of commodities

 

the image is a commodity (the image has become a commodity)

["Images have become munitions." (Paul Virilio)]

 

market: sale, maintenance and rise of commodity prices

the animal as an image as well as a commodity

The image is subjected to the same rules as a commodity.

 

animal, life

living things

dead living things, complete reproduction of an animal, realism: robot, replicants

creation of a new life: god

 

Criteria of humanity

A free hand means technical activity ... tolls.

 
 

Man

 

The man of the future

futurist novel

shark

to disappear

man's

genetics

evolution

species

 

Monsters

Vegetables and animals

Fish

Paleozoic

Silurian

 

 

Lascaux

 

jernej kožar