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Artist crisis centre II: tactical equipment

Elīna Vītola and Ieva Kraule-Kūna

2020
Object. Fabric, air bubble film, various objects . Sizes are variable.

The notion of artistic “failure” addressed in the Artist Crisis Centre project opens a wide complex of unanswered questions, which affects the developments in the world of art – which determined, what is a good and what is a bad piece of art? Can this be determined (the history of art has multiple “rejected saloons”, which have eventually become the objects of institutional pride), but, if it can, what are the parameters? Can artists themselves affect their luck, or it depends on multi-headed dragon that prefers to call himself – the art market? How to survive on art alone, and is that possible at all? The mobile ACC bag contains various tools and instructions that, potentially, could save an artist at a moment of crisis.