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LUBLJANA
RAJKO
BIZJAK
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QUESTION:
Maybe we’ll all walk around naked.
ANSWER: Maybe. The story of clothing
is not just story of protecting our body against forces of nature,
it is also the story of power against the personal, against people’s
pleasure, because the people who ask for their own definition of
pleasures don’t respect the government, because they don’t
need the government, they have what they need. And because the sexual
pleasure that is connected with our bodies, is one of the most powerful
pleasure, control of the ‘taboo’ areas means control
of human pleasure. Stepping over the border into taboo regions is
allowed only for those who served the government well. Governments
do not like individuals that try to remove that border.
QUESTION: Are you one of those people?
ANSWER: I think I am. Through my work
I try to show how you can be one of those people too. I try to make
people look at certain things in a way that they have not looked
at them before. And my work simply shows you one option how to look
between women’s legs. It’s not just ‘a place to
put your penis,’ but could be something else. There’s
a world that you can find and discover. |
QUESTION: Let me ask you another question:
Is religion important to you or your work? this is something I
am trying to figure out a bit these days, Slovenian sex art and
its relation religion/spirituality.
ANSWER: We can not deny our basic
religious subconscious structures, because we all grow on the
stories from bible, mostly old testament. As behaviorist I believe,
that most our acts based on this structure imprinted in our minds.
The bible’s old testament with its descriptive stories is
easier to understand than the more philosophical new testament.
It has built the unconscious structures for the whole western
world - Europe, the Americas, part of Africa --with it's stories
filled with hate, dead, blood and denial of ‘others’
making place for racism, intolerance and revenge. Understanding
the violent and non-tolerant nature of old testament ‘god’
creates possibilities for artists to fight against these subconscious
structures that are build into our brains. For instance, when
people look at my pictures they can find out, that female sex
and sexuality is not something immoral or worth to be hidden.
I do not believe that wish to overcome these moral borders is
unique in Slovenian culture. Also other people wish to do that
and some of them succeed – it is just that they are more
hidden from ‘public culture’ and it is harder to find
them. In Slovenia we all know each other so it is much easier.
QUESTION: What about Slovenian pornography?
Is there like prohibition in showing genitals? What is the rule
here?
ANSWER: We recently had a funny controversy
here, when one person from a village was up until midnight watching
the cable channels, and he found a porno channel and complained
about this to the director of telecommunications. There was a
huge debate on the TV and in the newspapers. But in the end they
decided that it is legal to brodacast porn after midnight.
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