ARCTIC FIGHT CLUB performance-parody in support the GREENPEACE's campaign SAVE THE ARTICS with the participation of the artist Miroslav Yordanov as other bear-boxer and anonymous volunteers
South Beach / Varna, BULGARIA
performance-parody / dimensions: variable / duration: around 30 minutes
(watch video-documentation above: short version + music (2 minutes & 35 seconds) / on the botom of this page: long version (5 minutes & 15 seconds), without misuc.)
The main idea of this performance is to create a kind of a strange parallel between contemporary art and pop culture: on the one hand the performance targets to parody popular culture, and the other using its instruments of influence over modern mankind to attract more people to the cause of conservation of the environment and to include them in the process of creating art. Using the popularity of boxing matches, the project encourages people to shift their focus on the problems of their society and creates audience of contemporary art. Furthermore, it can be regarded as a purely aesthetic spectacle.
Increasing global warming, furthermore the climatic conditions of our planet, it is also changing geo-economic map of the world. Taking advantage of this, international corporations, driven by their predatory instincts are turning their views to areas where mankind, due to the severe weather conditions, weakly developed industrial mining of fossil fuels. Arctic is such a focal point in confronting their interests. Activities of large corporations reinforce the impact of global warming and change the living conditions of the local animals. In this performance, the polar bear as the largest land predators present predator-minded multi-corporations, which are fighting for dominance and influence, like bears to dominate the area, but in same time they have other controversial role of a victim in the same situation, where they are putted by these same corporations. In the performance take a part also and "oil spills and spots" as an integral part of the "business" of multi-companies.
On another level performances also deal with increased violence in nowadays society. This violence comes not every time from desperate people in big cities, where the depressive environment, lack of money and job and society bad attitude force them to lose their human faces, but sometimes it is a byproduct of the consumer's society industries.
ARCTIC FIGHT CLUB performance-parody in support the GREENPIECE's campaign SAVE THE ARTICS with the participation of the artist Miroslav Yordanov as other bear-boxer and anonymous volunteers
South Beach / Varna, BULGARIA
video-documentation: long version (5 minutes & 15 seconds), without misuc.
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