manik,the missing people

MANIK, THE MISSING PEOPLE

Nikola Pilipovic Marija Vauda

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THE EXHIBITION OPENS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD AT 7 PM.

ULUS GALLERY, KNEZ MIHAJLOVA STREET, Belgrade,CLOSES ON 15TH OF JUNE

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We have chosen for the exhibition MANIK, A MISSING PEOPLE such images, anno=
uncements, material, schedules, relations and acts which create conditions =
for a space where meaning appears. We have chosen them to be not only logic=
al but also physical requirements and acts.

The works have been created over a period of many years. Some of them were =
executed in other media forms, e.g. in the form of e-mail announcements po=
sted during 2002-2004 on the Rhizom.org.(Rhizome _Raw) Some have been made =
in the form of posters and given away or were put together as Manik magazin=
e. We have used some of them to serve as links with the blocks we have done=
so far and by which dispersion is provoked …

We have decided to exhibit as a team, male-female, and vice versa, as bisex=
ual and multisexual, non hierarchical, it is a political decision: disguisi=
ng-creating-disappearing above and despite the chaos and change; to re-exam=
ine the place of these roles, which is in a way alienated by renouncing the=
possessed and desired, by speeding up and replicating them, and the reason=
and effect is found in the links it establishes and transcends as well as =
in the meanings that appear.

Each social context creates its own rejected zones (verwerfung), which the =
social contract does not see, since they are socially unacceptable, they ar=
e not places of freedom because they are not socialized, they are undemocra=
tic because they do not belong to the order of the majority. A multitude of=
surfaces and channels which are on the edge, the fringe, invisible, lackin=
g freedom, undemocratic, which establish their nomadic social context, a mi=
ssing people.



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1The space of the new/old planet, one of the Earths, is a shadow of the fo=
rmer Earth. Departure seen through the last look of an animal and girl. The=
migration of molecules and their transfer into a shady settlement of a mis=
sing people. The suspension of all territories.

1In the dispersed surface the shadow of compulsive light with no beginning=
, edits itself and connects itself into a leap.

1A green desert, too many backgrounds, a desert unit. Repetition of the pa=
rticular and differential. A unit is the condition of repetition.Deprived o=
ff negation. Conifers of black forests.

1The secret of the brain and the girl wrapped in boxes and put away and ab=
andoned. The secret of the brain and the girl carved out of marble and reve=
led as white, heavy and rectangular in shape. On the surface, along the lin=
es of invasion, an illuminated egg, the egg of a battle. For a missing peop=
le.

1First I gave birth to a ruby, or no, first I was a girl, or no, first I w=
as roebuck, or no, first I had a concept, or no, I flew over to my lover, o=
r no, first there was a sky which was not blue, or no, the sky and the blue=
color have no contact point, or no, first there were a people who were lov=
ers, or no, after I imagined the second, third …not for the second, third=
, but for the space for a missing people.

1In a glass bed, porous and monitored by the fan which originated at the s=
ame time as the missing people … is that a girl in a refugee flight?

1But … the cloud, the cloud moves here and there alternating obliteratio=
n. I look aside and observe: the multitude and speed of alternations throug=
h physical operations.

you have no my space:therefore you can exist.

MANIK