OPERATION RESTORE POETRY
2005

First Moscow Biennial
Curator : Nicolas Bourriaud

The walls of the room are covered with posters, each bearing a phrase beginning with the word Operation, followed by titles of old works or artistic considerations. A voice declaims the list of operations in a martial tone reminiscent of a military instructor. At the center of the space, an oversized ghetto blaster contains, in place of the cassette player, a sculpture placed in a niche lined with the same posters, on a reduced scale. The lighting in the niche varies according to the intensity of the sound. Operation Restore Poetry is the formalization, through sound and visual amplification and repetition, of the enunciation processes of an artist’s discourse, which asserts his poetics as propaganda.