THE END OF A STATE – Part II
Svalbard, May 2006
The Second 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, exhibited in glass cases with fixed views to the others. 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 8.500 miles, between two 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 Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen, the northern museum of the world. This grail is the Second of Three sculptures, which will complete the geographic triangle soon. The SoS grail was made by Robert Jelinek which is his second artwork given to a museum. The sculpture will remain forever in the Svalbard 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.
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