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"WELCOME TO EUROPOLY" - the European Union
IdentityTrading Game" is a title which leads the obsever into the world
of my audiovisual installation.Through my vision of the modern world I
transform the game of Monopoly - a game not chosen by chance, because
MONOPOLY means having power over something or someone - into a Kafkaesque
world of complex rules/laws of the "game", which today's
European Union offers to all "players" as the only possibility,
the only reality.
The conceptual structure of my work is articulated through 16 selected
professions or occupations of varying value and prestige, as well as a
whole series of accompanying symbols (Yugo and designer bags, profession
cards, chance cards, social cards,etc.) and deals with the problems of
identity , power, the process of integration, and also such questions as
the strict, categorical, merciless, and sometimes even grotesque,
qualities of a system of rule which mainly functions through pure
statistics - numbers, calculations, value relations, thereby destroying
the value of the individual as such.
I transform what is, at first sight, a recognisable game into a maze
whose paths and exits are by no means certain. I use documentary
photographs of real people as representatives of the profession and
occupations (squares on the playing board), where it is luck, to a great
extent, that determines the possible rise or fall of the
"players" who wish to become part of the new European identity.
Europoly
Rules Europoly
Portable Game Version
europoly.org essay Europoly
installation - exhibitions
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