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MEDIA PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / EVENT
THE
WATCHTOWERS OF PEACE
MOUNTAINS
ALONG THE AUSTRO-SLOVENIAN BORDER
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY GALLERY, GRAZ, AUSTRIA
GALERIE LE MONDE DE L’ART, PARIS
MAY - JULY 1993
Disappointed
with the mainstream media coverage of the warfare and “ethnic
cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia and the apathy of
the international community that watches the tragedy unfold
on television without doing anything to stop it, the artist
decides to set up an alternative communication network—a
combination of sophisticated technology and more primitive
means—centering on three watchtowers, or “sound
sculptures,” erected in the mountains along the Austrian
border with Slovenia, with a fourth located in a Parisian
art gallery. By dialing special phone numbers publicized in
several different countries, people could record their own
personal peace messages for the former Yugoslavia. The messages
were transferred to the watchtowers, from which they were
broadcast into the war-torn region via loudspeaker. Several
radio stations in different cities including Belgrade, Zagreb,
and Sarajevo, played selections of messages over the air.
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