| Jernej Kožar |
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Karantena
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Werkstadt Graz / GLU Slovenj Gradec
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1997
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http://www.glu-sg.si/kracina/kracinaWG.htm
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astronomic unity
Lascaux paintings of the bulls and horses
horse statues since antiquity
antiquity centaur, horses, bull - Minotaurus,
Middle Ages: tympanums of a portals (France) monsters; personifications of the Christ: lamb, lioness, pelican, phoenics; Holy Spirit - dove
painters of animals in the Netherlands 17th century; horses and dogs in England, George Stubbs; (Marino Marini)
Every society chooses the animal which corresponds best to its nature and to the environment it lives in, and which is connected to that society only on a symbolic level or on a symbolic and material level for food and hunting. Today animals are connected to human society on a symbolic level; hunting has been replaced by industrial production, which the contemporary human being no longer links with the rituals. Killing has moved from the mystical into the social context.
Totem
life (here and now, then and elswhere, before and elsewhere ...) life energy
demiurge (god does not create but save from decline); makes us see, raises attention
zoo; quarantine: diseases
animals disease carriers: ticks, rats, foxes, bacteria, monkeys, (mad) cows
Kracina's animals: trout, ant, badger, proteus are (still) clean animals
healthy life, clean life; back to nature
Connection: pollution with garbage as pollution with images
of commodities
the image is a commodity (the image has become a commodity)
["Images have become munitions." (Paul Virilio)]
the animal as an image as well as a commodity
The image is subjected to the same rules as a commodity.
animal, life
living things
dead living things, complete reproduction of an animal, realism: robot, replicants
creation of a new life: god
Criteria of humanity
Vegetables and animals
Fish
Andre Leroi Gourhan, Le Geste et la Parole, Premiere partie: Techique et langage, 1964, Paris