K9, 2003, Performance, MiniDV video 5' 36".

The video recording of the action of kneeling at chosen locations in New York, coded with my digitalized DNA formula, is projected on the wall. The projection is followed by the monologue from the film "Nostalgia" (1983) by Andrei Tarkovskij, featuring Erland Josephson: "My ancestor’s voice is speaking inside of me. I cannot live simultaneously in my head and in my body. That is why I cannot be only one person. I am capable of feeling myself in innumerable things at the same time. The true evil of our times lies in the fact that there are no more great teachers. The path of our hearts is covered with shadows. It is necessary to listen to the voices that seem useless; the humming of insects has to get into the heads taken by long, infested tubes, exhausting schools, swords, social habits. The ears and eyes of all of us have to be filled by the ideas that were at the beginning of the great dream; somebody has to scream that we shall construct the pyramids; it doesn’t mater if we won’t do it in the end. The desire has to be nourished. We have to stretch the soul in all directions, as if it is a sheet spread to infinity. If you want the world to move forward we have to hold each other’s hands. We have to mingle, the so called sane and the so called insane. Hey, you sane ones, what does your sanity mean? All eyes of the world are looking into the abyss into which we are to precipitate. We don’t need the freedom if you have no courage to look us in our faces, eat with us, drink with us, sleep with us. That is just how those who have brought the world to the edge of catastrophe are called. Man, listen to the water, fire and then ashes inside yourself. And to the bones in the ashes. Bones and ashes. Where am I when I am not in the reality or in my imagination? I propose a new agreement with the world: from now the sun will shine at night and it will snow in August. The society has to be united again and not fragmented. It would be enough to observe nature to understand that life is simple and that it is necessary to return to its origins. To the point where you have taken the wrong turn. We should return to the fundamental forms of life, without polluting the water. What is this world like when a madman has to tell you to be ashamed? Oh, mother, oh, mother! The air is that light thing circling around your head, becoming clearer when you laugh."

In cooperation with: Videographer: Lila Place; Programing: Daniel Shiffman; Background sound: Seiichi Saito & Jesus Colao; Production: Franklin Furnace, Trust for Mutual Understanding