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FATA MORGANA performative presentation of a project for Tbilisi |
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A fata morgana is an optical phenomenon, which results from a temperature inversion. It is happening always in the landscape, outside of the city: in the desert, on the see, on the highway. Kurant will present a possible location for Tbilisi fata morgana in one of the best and still vivid examples of Social realist architecture, Laguna Vere swimming pool, where one comes as to the city oasis, to an almost symbolic purification place. A week before the presentation the letters of the omnipresent advertisement overlooking the pool, the boulevards in the vicinity and the Kura river will disappear. A white surface with a potential no-meaning will serve as a hypothetic announcement either of the return of the past or the forecast for the future creating an uncertain present.
The presentation will happen during the working hours of the pool, and could be listened both by the audience on the tribunes, as well as regular goers in the water. Kurant believes alien intelligence comes from Earth. Knowledge is often domesticated whereas neither knowledge nor meaning should be taken for granted. New meaning can be produced only when one takes the risk of producing complete nonsense, since the distinction between sense and nonsense can never be made with certainty. Content and meaning of work are constructions, they are never a given. The action and the presentation will act as a changing, unstable, disappearing form so in the end there is no truth. Just like works which cease to be art when the context changes and the author looses control over the meaning. Misunderstanding and the irresolution of forms are often more important than what the project starts off with.
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Commissioned and part of ArtZone Festival in collaboration with Laura Palmer Foundation and Archidrome Tbilisi
Curated by: Joanna Warsza Project coordinator: Natia Gadelia 3.X.2009 Laguna Vere, 34 Kostava St. 1st Lane Tbilisi, Georgia free entrance
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