This video performance by Louise Vind Nielsen was shown at the group exhibition "Direct Democracy - Let's imagine what hasn't yet come true" at Rum 46. By dissecting a voting booth symbolizing present Danish democracy, this video questions today's democracy as being well-functioning and being the right and final form.
In order for one to dissect democracy you have to imagine it as some kind of organism. Not as an institution, a symbol or a concept, but as an organism of living tissue. Or perhaps a dying or diseased organism. Normally, when you dissect an organism, it has recently died. The reason you dissect something is to get to the core of the organism, to understand it's behaviour, evolution and origin, and ways to treat possible diseases.
The video was also part of an installation.
See the whole thing at uglydots.dk/OLD/dissektion.php
I forbindelse med udstillingen ”Direkte Demokrati - Kom! Lad os forestille os det, der endnu ikke er sket”, udstiller Louise Vind Nielsen en videoperformance i vinduet i Rum 46 - Studsgade i Århus, der ved at dissekere et symbol på selve demokratiet, er med til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved det nuværende demokrati, som velfungerende, og som det endelige og det ”rigtige”.
Videoen er del af en installation. Se hele installationen på uglydots.dk/dissektion.php
