Posted by Lars Vilks state secr on March 19, 1997 at 23:21:17:
In Reply to: art, reality and fiction posted by Geir Stene on March 19, 1997 at 18:11:25:
: Hm ?? State secr. Lars Vilks said something about Ladonia,
: not beeing an art project ? How could this become a possible
: statesment.Itīs like someone claimed that the cave-paintings
: isnīt art. Itīs like saying that Stonehenge isnīt an art project.
: I would say that Ladonia is more of an art project than most of
: the contemporary art can claim to be. (the traditional menings of the word
: art will very soon have no more mening at all. - Sorry to say folks!)
: The type of projects like the Finnish "fabric" called " BONK" is a art project
: some years ago,with great simularity to The Ladonian art consept.
: Lars Vilks argue that there is to much reality leaking in. Whats that ?
: Isnīt reality - realism - documentary - the real life possible in the consept
: of art any more ? Where is the difference between reality and fiction ?
: I want to suggest : Let Ladinia become the first real/fiction nation in an
: contemporary art museum / Paris? New Dehli? Reykjarvik? dosnīt matter. We are the only
: nation - 100% on line 100% contemporary at all times.
Dear Geir,
First of all I don't think cavepaintings are at work,
nor Stonehenge - but still extremely interesting
objects. The problems with art at the moment are
the internal communication that comes from this
institution. A few things in art are interesting, but
there is everything else that doesn't get into
art. Ladonia is what its citizens are doing and
I think that there is no reason to shout for the
institution of art. It is a project like other
countries, though the Ladonians like to do it in
their way.
Lars Vilks