ARTIST PROFILE

martinka bobrikova  & oscar de carmen

  • Slovakia (b. 1981 in Bratislava)
  • artist duo
The Protester

The Protester

  • 2012
  • 120 min

  • This sound documentation presents an urban intervention, which took place in Malmö on the 29th of March, 2012, between 12pm -2pm.

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    The Protester | 2012

We develop simultaneously an investigation, which centeres on the current outbreak of the financial crisis, which has been generated by claims a disagreement with the established political or social order. These movements arise primarily from social networks which begin to communicate and create themselves on the internet. Emerging movements that emerged through demonstrations in the period 2011/2012 in different parts of the world. We focus our research on those aspects of our society that makes possible the existence of spaces in which the absolutely inhuman mingles with that moment of happiness where no individual is better than another, when the individuals become the mass. We describe our actions as a demonstrators beyond articulate, understand, and measure the political structure as individuals exercising our citizenship in politics, exploring our bios. We are not satisfied with transit, we want to get our space in the city. Not enough to mark an event, an action for a specified period, which lasts beyond the manifestation. Our research presents a sound picture similar to the existential reality of loss and emptiness in the legacies of capitalism. Through the sound we generate an action implied by the demonstration, through abstract sound from sound recordings of events collected over the Internet. We intervene live in the space of the event, a sound that creates the atmosphere of 1000 protesters, through a powerful sound system, installed in a car. A sound image that respects attention between remembering and forgetting where are discussed the objects survivors and mourners at the intersection between the desire to remember and the impulse of forget