RENTaTENT, 2003

This was a public action which took place during the 11. Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean in Athens. It was a group project together with Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanic.

Here is our statement:

Our project is to offer to the public (and to the artists) of the Biennial a place to rest. As we all know how a tiring experience a visit of a large exhibition with hundreds of art pieces could be, especially in the summer.

We offer a friendly gesture - a tent in the shadow where a tired person can rest for a few hours. It is of course free of charge.

We take an everyday service (a profitable and marketable enterprise) and transfer it to the art field. We would like to keep as many characteristics of a real "service" with the most important exception - no charging and no profit.

The artists are present at the "reception" in front of the tents and are open for the discussion with the public. Besides the friendly gesture of offering a place to rest, a very important thing to us is the act of socialising - of being there and talk to the people.

Vesna Bukovec
Lada Cerar
Metka Zupanic