9 Ağustos 2013 Cuma

Big Babol, 2010














Big Babol is a collaborative work, by me and Simona Zemaityte, composed of chewed gums sticked onto the chicken wires by the visitors of the event and a video reflected on the gummy surface. It is an interactive installation uniting the visitors of the event in a very simple, childish and intimate way.

For the video to be reflected on the gummy surface, Simona shares a much different, political memory of her own, yet childish as every child had similar experiences:

USSR under the flavor of a smuggled "Donald Duck"

“I was born in a country that no longer exists. But I am Lithuanian. My mom says USSR was oppressive. My grandma says it was violent. All I remember about it is actually a chewing gum. USSR was political. Sorry to say, but my generation have learned about it at school. We never really lived it. Our memories are left in the margins of a big history. Yet they have a right to be spoken. Next year it will be 10 years after the official collapse of Soviet Union. The Big Bubble...”


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