AUSTRIA conTEMPORARY
Vienna 09

Documentation (video and photo)

Concept/Action: Michail Michailov
Camera: Hannes Anderle

The many posters advertising the exhibition „AUSTRIA conTEMPORARY“, in which I participated, inspired me to intervene according to the situation. The intervening action picks as a central theme the fact that art institutions often have at their disposal large budgets while the young exhibiting artists don’t have an income and only in rare cases do succeed to negotiate with the respective patron the purchase of their works…
(The meaning of the German word “arm” is “poor”)

Video 06:10 min.

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