Tadej Pogacar:Monument to an Unknown Prostitute

[anna balint]

Tadej Pogacar presents his new work in Slovenia.

Monument to an Unknown Prostitute
A Document of Action
International Centre of Graphic Arts ,Tivoli Mansion, Pod turnom 3, 1000

Ljubljana, Slovenia
T: +386 (0)1 241 38 00   F: +386 (0)1 241 38 21   e: info at mglc-lj.si

The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art and Tadej Pogacar
present
the document of unveiling of the 'Monument to an Unknown Prostitute' in
the
Tivoli Park in Ljubljana in February 2002. This is the first memorial of

its kind ever known to be erected.  The inauguration of the monument was

performed in close co-operation with the Comitato dei Diritti Civilli
delle
Prostitute institution from Pordenone, Italy.

The inauguration of the monument forms part of the wider CODE:RED
project
exploring certain aspects of prostitution and sex work as a specific
mode
of parallel economy. Sex industry is a vital source of income for a
large
part of non-official economy excluded from circuits of national economy.
It
is an eminently international and global phenomenon, which comprises
different multicultural groupings.  The CODE:RED project of the
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art was part of the last Venice
Biennial; it included the 1st World Congress of Sex Workers and New
Parasitism with participation of sex workers and activists from Taiwan,
Cambodia, USA, Thailand, India, Australia and Europe.

'Monument to an Unknown Prostitute' is an example of a temporary public
monument in urban setting. It represents an alternative view of
monumentality (historical importance, immortality). The logic of this
temporary monument is best illustrated by Guy Debord's thought that the
'weak' should exploit the 'strong' to create his/her own autonomous
sphere
of action.  The nature of the monument is fragmentary and heterogenuous.

The choice of materials and the manner of construction follow the ethic
and
aesthetic of dailines and temporariness. The selected materials are
predominantly ordinary and cast-off matters.  The inauguration of the
'Monument to an Unknown Prostitute'is an act of subjective experience of

urban environment - the inauguration of the temporary monument realises
the
practice of concrete utopia, play and communication.

P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.ljudmila.org./scca/parasite
email: tpogacar at yahoo.com
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