Common Spoon
2019
Performance
CURATORS
Marina Gržinić, Ketrin Milićević Mijošek
Some Say Participatory Art has Failed. Why do We Keep on Doing It?, Create to Connect → Create to Impact, Visningrommet USF, Bergen, Norway, 18.10.2019
Collection of Contemporary Art Marino Cettina, MSUI/MACI, Pula/Pola, 19.6.2020 – 23.08.2020
PHOTO
Giordano Cellich
I explain to the audience what will happen in the performance and ask for volunteers. I offer a spoon to the first in line to lick, which I then lick after him/her, then I offer the spoon to the second and lick the spoon after him/her, and so on until the last one. Then I go back to the first one repeating the spoon licking process. Thus, the process becomes equal for everyone. The performance was performed for the first time as part of a conference on participatory art in Bergen, Norway. Participatory art is the result of the collective creation of the participants, their voluntariness, responsibility and trust, as well as risk, and it seems that these qualities are also part of this performance. One of the ideals in performance art is to merge life and art, to make art "real". This performance seems to fulfill that ideal.