AURA
After the Age of Technical Reproduction
A Media Art Exhibition organised by the C3 Foundation
Millennium Park, Hall D 30 October – 30 November 2003
János Sugár
Ariadne Unemployed
Installation, 2003
Ivan Chtcheglov, born 1934, is a Russian political theorist, activist and poet, a former resident of the Soviet Union, active in France. He wrote "Formulary for a New Urbanism" in 1953, at age nineteen under the name Gilles Ivain, which was an inspiration to the Lettrist International and the Situationist International. In this seminal text he mentions "the ridiculous labyrinth in the Jardin des Plantes, at the entry to which is written (height of absurdity, Ariadne unemployed): Games are forbidden in the labyrinth." Following the appearance of "Formulary for a New Urbanism" in the first issue of Internationale Situationniste, Chtcheglov was institutionalized apparently for the rest of his life.
"A mental illness has swept the planet… no more laughter, no more dreams. Just the endless traffic, the blank eyes that pass you by, the nightmarish junk we're all dying for. Everyone is hypnotized by work and comfort."
Gilles Ivain
Ariadne Unemployed
At one sole glance, one can discern both the Cartesian layout of the so-called labyrinth at the Botanical Gardens and the following warning sign:
Unattributed text in Potlatch (information bulletin of the French section of the Lettrist International) #9-11, August 1954
At one sole glance, one can discern both the Cartesian layout of the so-called labyrinth at the Botanical Gardens and the following warning sign:
NO PLAYING IN THE LABYRINTH
There could be no more succinct summary of the spirit of this entire civilization. The very one that we will, in the end, bring down.
Ivan Chtcheglov, born 1934, is a Russian political theorist, activist and poet, a former resident of the Soviet Union, active in France. He wrote "Formulary for a New Urbanism" in 1953, at age nineteen under the name Gilles Ivain, which was an inspiration to the Lettrist International and the Situationist International. In this seminal text he mentions "the ridiculous labyrinth in the Jardin des Plantes, at the entry to which is written (height of absurdity, Ariadne unemployed): Games are forbidden in the labyrinth." Following the appearance of "Formulary for a New Urbanism" in the first issue of Internationale Situationniste, Chtcheglov was institutionalized apparently for the rest of his life.
"A mental illness has swept the planet… no more laughter, no more dreams. Just the endless traffic, the blank eyes that pass you by, the nightmarish junk we're all dying for. Everyone is hypnotized by work and comfort."
Gilles Ivain
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1014 Budapest, Országház utca 9. — H-1537 Budapest, Pf. 419
Tel: + 36-1-4887070 — Fax: + 36-1-214-6872
http://www.c3.hu — info @ c3.hu