{"id":543,"date":"2016-10-27T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romovayababa.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:32:59","slug":"macondo-may-disappear-but-it-cannot-change-a-monument-to-the-words-of-the-minister-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoyafalkova.com\/en\/macondo-may-disappear-but-it-cannot-change-a-monument-to-the-words-of-the-minister-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Macondo may disappear, but it cannot change. A monument to the words of the Minister of Culture."},"content":{"rendered":"

An installation tied to a tree, left to be eaten by ants (as well as by birds and squirrels). Experiment. Duration: 1 month<\/p>\n

Materials: Sugar, eggs, honey, water, cereals, nuts, earth, seeds of field herbs, tree stump, botanical garden.<\/p>\n

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“I suggest you should read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel M\u00e1rquez. This one is my favourite.” Arystanbek Mukhamediuly, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, telling about a reason to spend $250millions of taxes for building a \u00abPanteon\u00bb for some people from the past.<\/p>\n

“The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.” Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ad hoc instincts never fail high-ranking officials: we have not only read about Macondo, we seem to be living in it. The one described with utter precision. How could M\u00e1rquez have known? But he did, and, as a sign of gratitude, we’ll bring him to our soil, and we will give him to it. Let our Macondo unite with his Macondo in the insect digestive ecstasy. Marquez belongs to us.<\/p>\n

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day 1 – day 10<\/p><\/div>\n

“Symbiosis” exhibition, botanic garden, ARTBATFEST2016<\/a>, Almaty, Kazakhstan
\ncurator – Yana Malinovskaya<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Anton Platonov and Anatoly Chernoussov for their help and support on the project.<\/p>\n

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