AUTOTHERAPY
(working title)
National Gallery, Batumi, Georgia
March 2005
International Art Festival "Dialog"
Curator:
Zaza Pirtskalaishvili
Concept:
Medical intervention to Earth.
The Earth energy in the form of blood runs in our veins and is passed from generation to generation through the earth. It is as blood transfusion. During the wars the earth is soaked in with the blood of billion humans, and then it passes to the new generations through the water and food stuffs. And so the immunity of Earth increases. Then next generations make the same mistakes and the immunity decreases again. There is war again, there is blood again. What is it? Is it inevitable natural process? Is it the only way for increasing the immunity of Earth? Sometimes the Earth needs blood and she gets it from human and human gets the blood from the Earth.
The description of the peculiarity of the object and the way of expression:
There are medical cellophane packets full of wine under the soil, half buried clay mask. Empty and full of wine syringes are put in the hillock. An immunity increasing treatment mode is presented, by the way of blood transfusion from the vein into muscle. In medicine this method is known as “auto”.
The gist of action is that the author of project could rouse the interest audience to put on the medical gloves, to take the syringes and to draw out the wine from the buried packets, and to make an injection into the ground. Thus the art object is created.
The earth remembers everything what ever happened on the Earth.
Material purpose:
Ground, earth - our planet.
Hillock - Earth imbued with blood and perspiration.
Mask - generalized abstract image of oldman.
Full of wine syringes - young soldiers, whom the Earth lended the blood.
Empty syringes - fallen soldiers.
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