gallery / KUNSTHALLE
where / WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY
when / July-October
artists / Lumir Hladik / Jiří Kovanda / Vito Acconci - Milan Adamčiak - Jozef Revallo - Róbert Cyprich - Bas Jan Ader - Artur Barrio - Nikita Alexeev - Keith Arnatt - Bård Breivik - John Cage - Odvar I.N. Darren - Ina Hagen - Peter Hutchinson - Tadeusz Kantor - Inghild Karlsen - Alison Knowles - Milan Kozelka - Jeevi Lee - Cecylia Malik - Ana Mendieta - Fina Miralles - Jüri Okas - Ewa Partum - Zorka Ságlová - Gerry Schum - Mieko Shiomi - Robert Smithson - Gerd Tinglum - Die Tödliche Doris - Ben Vautier
curators / Petra Stegmann
The Mirrored Sea
One day I realized that it had been two years since the last time I saw the sea. The sea always was, for us Czechoslovakian citizens, a special place. In a geographical sense, the country is landlocked, as well as in a political sense; the sea became a symbol of freedom. Thus, I decided that a time span of two years was emotionally significant enough to allow me to “not see it (again).” I asked my friends to drive me (blindfolded), and a large mirror to the Baltic Sea coast in East Germany. Upon our arrival, my friends placed the mirror in an upright position on the beach facing the sea. I was escorted towards the mirror, where I sat down, removed the blindfold and watched the sea’s reflection in the mirror. After an hour of mirror-sea-watching, my friends blindfolded me again and we returned back to Prague.
Action
Location – Warnemünde, East Germany (DDR)
1980
