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English: Platform 6 - Unrealized openness
Posted by: Admin2 on Friday, July 19, 2002 - 04:54 PM CET

Performers from Central Europe thank politicians and world leading curators for ignoring and perfect isolation.

(Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, Poland)

Documenta 11, from the performance artist's point of view, is an ingenious exhibition. Many postulates, that performance art had already suggested 30 years ago has been realized during this exhibition. The division into the art disciplines has been taken down. The art has been released from the pressure of art market and aesthetical rules. Art critics do not have to interpret the works of art. They are comprehensible for everyone. Exhibition presents the art, that in fact is not accepted by the art world. Because this art seriously tells about the tragedies of this world. Documenta 11 for the first time is not a place for refined games of artistic establishment, that always during this kind of exhibition has the opportunity to fix seasonal trends and position of romantic artists – geniuses in rankings. Documenta 11 warns, that it is not time for art, whose value lies in modernistic background or Dadaists' perfidy, irony, joke, displaying the sense of humor or eccentric imagination. The time for this kind of art had already passed. The art should disinterestedly serve people, not to authorities or to art market. In this exhibition it is proven, that we could overcome Europocentrism and Americocentrism. It says, that the world is bigger and more complicated than axis G8. That openness – still impossible to realize - is the only alternative for today and for the future. Documenta 11 again reminds us about the Western cultural domination, which cannot be acceptable today. Looking at the exhibition we still do not know, whether the introduction of not-known artists into the world art scene is only a temporary whim of a West Man, or is it just testing the art system, a political reaction to the attacks of antiglobalists or a deep, humanistic process (or only a gesture). The Western culture having the fantastic ability to assimilate and proclaim ideas of openness is in fact a hermetic structure forcing it's own rules, which we will not be able to understand. E.g. we will not be able to understand any reasons of ignoring and isolating Central European culture, more than other cultures. Also, we will not be able to explain logically the marginalization of performance art in Western culture. The art, which was paradoxically born in NYC. Staying out of the art world somehow "double" we are more conscious of the indications of hypocrisy of Western culture and other patterns of globalized civilization. And we thank you very much for this possibility.

wladyslaw_kazmierczak@onet.pl

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