ARTIST PROFILE

martinka bobrikova  & oscar de carmen

  • Slovakia (b. 1981 in Bratislava)
  • artist duo
Yes, I can (not)

Yes, I can (not)

  • 2014
  • The tripods for sustaining the microphones are positioned 2 meters and 25 cm high respectively facing the viewer.

  • The microphones are used as speakers and spreading an audio recording of a voice pronouncing the verb of the power in affirmative and negative forms in all persons singular and plural, omitting only the first person singular.

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    yes, I can (not) | 2014

The creation of the work "Yes, I can (not)" is generated by two unilateral perspectives on power politics in the global financial system. The first perspective deals on a personal level with the institutional relationship to the social talk, in a context that defines the identity of artists compared with the curator, the gallerist and academic institution. The second perspective examines the political dialogue issued for public comment in relation to the global monetary system as the crisis facing what are the consequences on the lives of workers. The installation is presented as a space of dialogue between questionable dictation: microphones in the gallery are positioned in representative form of nesting of the power through the alteration of the functionality of the microphones on tripods. The microphones are used as speakers and spreading an audio recording of a voice pronouncing the verb of the power in affirmative and negative forms in all persons singular and plural, omitting only the first person singular. The tripods for sustaining the microphones are positioned 2 meters and 25 cm high respectively facing the viewer. Sound installation; variable dimensions; microphones, tripods