DNLM
No. 1774
"Muddy Demonstrations"
Artist: DNLM
Title: Muddy Demonstrations
Duration: 05:19
Year: 2023
Genre: Documentary video / Art video
Production: MGLC

 
SYNOPSIS

The video documents the interpretation of a children's game. The artist recalls a childhood game when children, after rainy days, used soggy soil to play. Each child made a tool by peeling leaves from a bush branch and turning it into a flexible stick. Children then shaped the soil into balls with their hands and attached them to the top of the sticks. When they swung it, the ball flew off and stuck to the wall. They played until the wall was covered with hundreds of dots. More than two decades later, the artist invited children to recreate the same game in an abandoned construction site in Ljubljana. A specific body movement – swinging an arm or stick while running – is now associated with movements that can be seen in demonstrations or street riots. In a contemporary context, covering a concrete wall with soil through a process of ritualistic repetition of energetic body movements can be read as an environmental-activist gesture or a utopian resistance against anthropocentrism. (Source: DNLM)


 
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