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The Red Library
marker on wall
site-specific installation in Jeleni gallery, Prague 2005

For the exhibition in Jeleni Gallery in Prague we created a hierarchy of male artists and curators from the Czech art scene. We grouped these men into charts based on imaginary scenarios of sexual situations that could occur between us and them. This subjective re-ordering of the Czech art scene grouped together people who normally belong into different categories. The criteria used for this restructuring were strictly based on an aesthetic evaluation of the artist's appearance, sexual appeal and erotic moods, which the specific men did (or did not) inspire in us. We ignored their artistic and intellectual qualities as well as their position on the art scene entirely.
The Red Library does not only reflect upon inter-subjectivity and human interaction, it also formulates and causes this interaction. The Red Library's transgression into life, the transformation of attitudes and relations of the judged men, among themselves and towards us, are essential parts of the whole project. Relationships transformed in this manner are marked by discomfort and ridicule.

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Anytime anything
(men that set me on fire with a glance)



Secret objects of desire
(men I play hard to get just pro forma)



A momentary crush
(men that can get me after five mojitoes)



Sex out of decency
(men I surrender to by pure inadvertency)



Make a virtue of necessity
(men I would sleep with only to increase my self-confidence)



Desperate resignation
(men I would give myself up to only on a deserted island)



Biological duty
(men I would have intercourse with only under the threat of the doom of mankind)


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