Art and Law I: CAT -Monstration

Art and Law I: CAT -Monstration

Opening 20.02.2009, 8PM
21.02.2009 - 29.03.2009
Sat. und Sun. 2-6PM
(also Fri. 27.02. and 27.03., 8-11PM)

The CAT (Contemporary Art Terrorism) collective from Novosibirsk creates situations in public space, which lay bare the absurdity of the way in which political power functions. Unprepared passers-by were drawn into the process of creating critical artistic statements. For organizing a May Day monstration - a counterpart to a classical May Day demonstration - in which marchers carried individual banners with apolitical, often poetic or non-rational slogans, the artists were sentenced to pay a fine. The exhibition Monstration shows video works and documents of the public reaction by means of legal documents and mass media reviews.