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GEDEMINAS AKSTINAS
DŢIUGAS KATINAS
Vilnius, Lithuania
ALIVE-DEAD

by Viktor Petrov
This performance was a reflection on changing cultural contexts and politics in the war of cultures. By depicting the processes which influence contemporary art and culture, the artists accept the rules of the game of self-destruction, as if taking on the concentrated onslaught of modern consumerist "ideology". The way consciousness is changing through the advertising market and its consumers. Several litres of Coca-Cola seep slowly from medical drips into suspended loaves of "Dead" white bread which soak it up, then fall, ready to be placed onto the "Alive" pile. The performers, dressed in elegant black suits, white shirts and ties, pour themselves 50ml shots of vodka and drink them. The process has begun - unable to stand the "strain", the young audience starts taking the performers' bread away.

English translation: Mark Bence

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