Stewart Island, December 2009

THE END OF A STATE – Part III

The Third of the Three Keys

Every state is an obsolescent model. SoS is a process limited in time and awaiting its own transformation. Just as each state was once founded, it should also be also possible to dissolve. A single person can already dissolve the State of Sabotage. The SoS state grail, once forged as a key to eternity, has been smashed into three pieces and cast to the three ends of the earth. The fragments of the grail rest in the northern- and southernmost museums of the world. The stranger who takes possession of all three pieces overthrows the SoS state and dissolves it in one fell swoop. Now go forth and don’t be caught!

Guardian of Time

Now after a long journey with over 14.000 miles, between three continents and various cultures it reachs its final destination: The SoS grail. This piece of art, a talisman and time capsule is now at the Rakiura Museum in Stewart Island/New Zealand, the southern museum of the world. This grail is the Third of Three sculptures, which will completed the geographic triangle now. The SoS grail was made by Robert Jelinek which is his third artwork given to a museum. The sculpture will remain forever in the Rakiura Museum.

Commitment through Slippage

The condition of any history, its endlessness, is the irretrievably lost, the absent. Time will never dissolve anything without recreating it as a newly composed entity. The nemesis of history is the impulse of displacement. The conservative resistance bemoans the loss of history and forms a reanimation movement for the coherent, self-conscious subject. But history is not the place for perpetual slumber. SoS history is the location of perpetual slippage. History is a question of commitment, not a reminder of some rational morality whose delivery dawns on the horizon.

Rakiura Museum

Situated in Ayr Street opposite the Community Centre

the museum is open Monday to Saturday

10am till noon, Sunday noon – 2pm

Stewart Island, New Zealand