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49. Biennale di venezia Clara BleiBtreu

the sQuare or the Creation of iMaGe oVer radio

was invited to be a guest on the nighttime show of Radio into an image I had in my mind:
Sarajevo on December 3, 1989, to talk about my work, SQUARE, symbol of earth, created
i exhibitions and life. The show was in carte blanche style, so i universe.
had the opportunity to create it. i didn’t want only to talk about my
work, but to make something that would better express my style and In the studio, we decided how to
way of thinking. i decided to conduct an experiment, to test if barthes stage the game, after I explained
was right when he proved theoretically how reality influences the what I want: to say the word
coded message. i created the scenario from that idea. And The SQuARe SQUARE over the air and allow
OF The CReATiOn OF iMAge OveR RADiO was born - an exhibition listeners to call and explain what
that touches on the very act of creating ‘image’, that most poetic and is ‘square’. For a full two hours, a
sensitive moment in the life of a work of art.
very long period for a radio show,
we would see what they described.
i have always felt foolish listening to a show about fine art on the
radio, a medium that cannot fully represent that art. i have wondered I started to feel the square and,
how it is for other listeners. Their position started being unbearable through the square, both I and the
for me, listeners who are mere consumers of information and cannot listeners, who participated more and
change anything. Such a powerless situation! So i decided to include more in the program, freed the most
listeners in a joint game of understanding and creating images over diverse feeling, of which the most
the radio. My secret goal was to free emotions and to create an image dominant was the fear of possible
of them. To merge my emotions and the emotions of unknown citizens war. Nobody expected that.

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