Irony is important because then, when you look in the eyes
of this rabbit; in the eyes of the rabbit before it’s to be slaughtered, you
feel that there’s this – this sacrifice.
You feel that there is someone losing it’s life to feed
another.
– Therefore, there’s this unawareness – right? – that really
moves one to pity.
– So in some way you understand that in all of this – in
this whole situation that is always a bit dramatic – there is also irony.
– Because the irony becomes rabbit-skin glue. Irony becomes
the skin of the rabbit that then gets transformed [into rabbit-skin glue].
– So the rabbit
is seized and then cooked – eaten and enjoyed, no?
1:02 – That is to say, in the midst of death – but then after
death there’s a continuation that is extremely ironic, because in the end –
this sensation of continuity is stronger than irony.
- It’s precisely this fact that it all doesn’t finish in a
single act, but that there’s a continuation, a continuation, and so in this
case I say that it is ironic.
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– The idea is to hear this roar of the rabbit, that is in reality
the roar of all animals that are sacrificed by man.
– In this case the rabbit is a life that is sacrificed to
become food to be eaten.
– But in reality, in the end the installation is an example
of mortality.
– And because to me it connects to the concept of the
massacre – of people during wartime.
– That in some way, just as we kill rabbits, which for a
person who lives in the country is totally natural
– It gives me the impression that it’s become quite natural
for us to watch people dying on the television – and even by the hundreds –
without even being troubled by it.
- Thus with this installation I just wanted to make people
reflect for a moment, and to recover something of the meaning of blood and of
death: through the example of an animal.
– Of course, I’m a meat-eater; I’m not vegetarian.
- But what is important is to cut down quite a bit on that assembly-line
presentation that we find in the supermarkets, and also to cut down on
consumption.
– Because that meat often goes to waste. It’s not necessary.
– And this, too, serves as an inquiry that can be done in
the general context of the performance – or of the installation, itself.
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– We often find ourselves criticizing; judging – no? – to condemn – no? –
certain acts, certain things, without being aware that we, ourselves, are the
actors in this drama that, obviously, I see as being extremely ironic.
- Because, really – and I’ll specify that this is according
to my opinion – I lived this experience with a great deal of irony.
- When I got over the decisive moment of death – of the
killing of the rabbit where you look in it’s eyes and obviously you feel a bit
– really quite a bit – guilty, even though you’re not the one using the knife.
- However, then, in the end – afterwards I say: “It’s okay
- after all this is part of life.”
- It’s the form through which we are living; through which
we are interacting.
- Therefore, it’s all ironic.... In the end it all becomes
almost easy – if we overcome this moment of death, no?
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