Machtspiele
Power Games
- Date of creation : 1973
- Country : Austria
- Duration : 00:11:36
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound
- Artist - Author : František Lesák
Description
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In a scale of 1:1, one sees flies crawling across a white background in "Power Games," which are crushed by the artist's hand, impaled with needles, cut up with scissors, marked with poster pens, and pressed shut with modeling clay. In further scenes, the artist scratches the effigies of the flies, which are also on a scale of 1:1, and finally tears and burns the paper. "Games with Insects. Playing with power. Trying to destroy an organism without actually getting to it." The early conceptual video was first shown in 1973 at the trigon - exhibition "audiovisuelle botschaften" at the Neue Galerie Graz." (Source, website, Neue Galerie Graz)