MY HUT IS ON THE EDGE
The project is an ironical commentary and critics of the indifference to social and political problems. Psychiatrist Victor Kandinsky once said “Not only bodily diseases are capable of epidemic spread; diseases of the soul, mental disorders also often take on an epidemic character.” The “mental epidemic” of the absolute indifference to everything that happens around has become a reality of our time. Fear of the state machine; selective denial of reality; learned helplessness and the resulting social irresponsibility are ingrained even at the language level. I visualise various traditional proverbs of different languages referring to avoidance and minding your own business with fictional scenarios. Each of the picture refers to the proverb of one and the same meaning — “I don’t care”. Proverbs encapsulate our life story, they serve as a narrative of our collective life journey and unfortunately show not always the wisdom side. I play with humour and visually interpret contemporary ignorance on social and political issues. In the second part of my project, I reflect on empathy as a necessary phenomenon for the development of society and tolerance. By making visual performance, I invite to symbolically sit on someone’s chair and to understand what guides a person in determining his/her position of civic behaviour.