IVAN MOUDOV
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IVAN MOUDOV
One hour priority The video shows the artist driving for one hour on a roundabout in the center of Sofia. The location is notorious for generating heavy traffic in rush hours. The cars already inside the roundabout have priority, so all other cars coming from other directions have to stop and wait. Playing with the road regulations, the artist found a way to be “the right one at the right place” for 1 hour while the very idea of “right time” in the context of the work becomes obsolete. Time loses its punctuation and linearity right in the middle of the urban setting, actually the exact place at which the linearity of time and its progressive motion may be expected to be at its most obvious. Ivan Moudov often uses the interaction between humans, car traffic and street regulations in a particular city as a stage set for interventions and actions, transforming normal urban activities into something completely strange. His works illuminate the absurd reglementation or lack of such in various cities and/or their parts. He seems to either stick to the letter of the rule, or to twist it to an absurd level, such as when regulating the car trafic in Graz, Austria, dressed up as a Bulgarian police officer, totally out of his jurisdiction, - all in order to gain visibility as an individual city dweller and to mark his place as a single citizen in a civil society. Iara Boubnova |