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What of the silence of the keys
And silvery hands? The iron sings…
Though bows lie broken on the strings,
The fly-wheels turn eternally…

Bring fuel – drive the fires high…
Throw all this artist-lumber in
And foolish dreams of making things…
(Ten million men are called to die.)

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London, 2011
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Berlin, 2014

Isaac Cordal
Follow the leaders
Variable sizes (miniatures). Cement.

“The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places. […] Follow the leaders is a critical reflection on our inertia as a social mass. Representing a social stereotype associated with power compound businessmen who run the global social spectrum.”

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Roi Vaara’s performance for film Artist’s Dilemma (1997) obviously deals with the alleged sharp distinction between art and life. It is not clear, whether the man is not able or simply unwilling to decide, he just keeps walking back and forth on the frozen sea and basically ends up being both: not quite art and not quite life.
Interestingly, he is out there, on his own, with no land and no people in sight — is it an inner conflict he is facing? To be honest, yes, I like to think of the artist as someone who now and then has to step away from the center (of life) to be able to see things clearer. And depending on what art form he chooses, the process of creating can involve a temporary social withdrawal as well. But then again, when or where does life end and art begin? Isn’t it actually only a blurring of boundaries?  (more…)