"For a while, after this action, The Presidential Candidate was depressed"

S-au întors ciudaţii, după o pauză de câteva luni:


The presidential candidate at the mall, during the national day 

What does the romanian presidential candidate offers?

For now a radical practice and some critical thinking.

His 2010 messages and actions were all focused on deconstruction and thus on the inevitable cynical conclusions upon the status quo. The practice consisted in breaking the contexts in which he was invited, making shortcuts inside the utopian projects and emulating political representations.

The candidate pushed the reality to those limits that “reality” usually tries to avoid to acknowledge. We (the staff) tried to expose what the system prefers to obstruct, to reveal the ideology behind the nightmare. 2010 was a year of great turbulence and, as never before, the future seemed grim and hopeless.

Capitalism seems dead but is sucking everything around just like a cosmic black hole. Though, unlike a black hole, the periphery is the first to go down, the margins have to “adapt” (instantly) to the new paradigm of the calamity driven world, to the never ending succesion of singularities that leaves the center much smaller (but stronger) and condemns the concentric circles to total ruin. The 4th world will forever work to that end, in fact the scale of the “worlds” has now become larger, we have today also a fifth world and we are witnessing a revival of the second world condition. Otherwise we deal only with the present, history has been resuscitated by the current crisis but the official left is improvising on the spot. Everything revolves around inevitable future predicaments or disasters, the ones that will constantly shift our focus, plans and "politics". Stability is nowhere to be found, we will pounder on little terms projects and wait to be detoured again and again.

So these are some of the conditions of the contemporary society that the presidential candidate tried to aproach in 2010.

The last action/event that the romanian candidacy proposed took place on the 1st december of 2010, the national day of Romania and the anniversary of the biggest mall in eastern europe, AFI Palace Cotroceni in Bucharest.

We got permission to enter in the show by cheating the PR of the mall saying that we are going to present a modern dance piece. We send fake images from previous shows that we never did, actually they all came from a youtube search session. One of the videos that we send as "document" to the PR was taken from a Ultima Vez piece by Wim Vandekeybus.
Most importantly we told her that we are for free! So they didn't have to burden their marketing budget...

We were kicked out of the stage just before the end. Some of the mall staff got angry with our show although we were officially invited by them. But it was a postspectacle evening anyway. Before us, on stage, were little dancers (at most 12) from the National Opera Experimental Studio. After us acrobats and Holograf (famous romanian rock band) were due to follow, and last but not least in the end of the day there was a raffle "with prizes for everyone".

We just tried to push the show in the same direction, but to the edge. Mixing trash estetics with hardcore critical speeches we delivered something that actually was already there, or it seemed like this anyway. The bigger spectacle that surounded us was absorbing and, as it proves here, it can absorb anything. From here on apparently only violence can shake something up.

For a while, after this action, The Presidential Candidate was depressed.

What’s happening now with the candidacy ? We take a rest and rethink.

http://postspectacle.blogspot.com/2010/12/presidential-candidate-at-mall-during.html