Forgotten News, 2019

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Forgotten News
2019
Czechoslovak comunist and Austrian newspaper issued in the end 1989.
Context-specific performance for TRAM / gallery and cultural center held in a regular shuttle train between Bratislava and Vienna in 2019.
I copied the typical situation where on entering a train you find that a previous traveller has left a newspaper on the seat. I brought old newspapers from the revolutionary year of 1989, which signified the end of the communist era in our country, into the train. Whereas today it is normal to travel freely from Bratislava to Vienna, before 1989 it was strictly forbidden. I intermixed these two feelings: the strictly controlled borders of preceding times and the free movement today. Physical  travelling changes to mental travelling in time and in the memories of those who find forgotten news on the seat.
–SM–