Mobilnale 2

Mobilnale 2

Participative public art work by

HELIDON GJERGJI

Curator

LÝDIA PRIBIŠOVÁ

Work selected by:

Helidon Gjergji and Lýdia Pribišová

Coordinators:

Alexandra Karpukhina and Dionisis Christofilogiannis

Participating artists:

Peter Barényi & Eja Devečková, Erik Binder, Amanda Browder, András Csefalvay, Lucia Dovičáková & Jozef Tušan, Petra Feriancová, Viktor Frešo, Ján Gašparovič, Vladimir Myrtezai Grosha, Christoph Hoeschele, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Jana Kapelová & Magdaléna Kuchtová Armando Lulaj, Guido Albi Marini, Artan Shabani, Alice Schivardi, Sadik Spahija,

Magda Tóthova & Michael Strasser

Place: Prague, Parking Lot nearby Bubenska street, metro stop: Vltavska A.

The map attached.

Time:

Friday, 8.10. 2010: 7.00 p.m.  - 10.00 p.m.

Saturday 9.10. 2010:  4.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

Saturday 10.10. 2010: 4.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

About 20 to 30 international artists will be invited to install art projects in their cars, which will be parked for three days during the opening of the TINA B festival in a parking lot in the city of Prague. The parking lot will be operational during the time of this event, so many other random vehicles will pull in and out, creating much desired confusion between randomness and carefully controlled projects. So the cars of the artists will be integrated in a real functional parking lot, which will create a new situation and insure a more direct contact with the wider public.

Rather than obscure, we will try to make evident that many people drive their carfriends for the simple reason that they can’t go to bed with them. There is no doubt that the real carness of a car becomes quite conspicuous in the moment that it is not carrying out its so-called normal functions. A static car in a parking space, with its luscious post-car-wash surface and with the alluring antenna of its stereo system erected, is much closer to its reason for being than when it is transporting the driver’s sister to the hospital as the result of a sequence of unheroic diarrhea attacks.

Making artistic interventions with parked cars will thus enhance their aura, exhibiting the public’s dysfunctional relationship with the carness of their cars and melting their metallicized social energies. So, the art will create an appropriate context for the cars in lieu of the cars creating an alternative venue for the art”. (Helidon Gjergji)