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The exhibition represents the Baltic Sea and the trips of Princess Algieba, Princess Bellatrix and Prince Betelgeuze around and over it. Also a book on this subject is presented. The lamps telling about the trips will multiply during the exhibition, just like in a Christmas calendar.
The exhibition is a part of the performance project “Prince Betelgeuze, Princess Algieba and Princess Bellatrix travel around the Baltic Sea”, a joint project together with Elin T. Sørensen from Norway and Jaan Pärnamäe from Estonia, begun in 1997.
The weak and strong sense of the notion of playing.
Playing in the weak sense is entertainment, something secondary. For the degenerated player only entertainment means playing, he doesn’t realise that he plays all the time.
Playing in the strong sense reveals the foundations of seriousness, presents its possibilities; things do not have to be like they are ordinarily, they can be otherwise.
The exhibition raises the question of the possibility of different levels, which are not fixed above or below each other and which are not better or worse of each other. The difference of levels appears while playing, while moving.
Princess as a subtlety forecloses the authenticity of a naked body as something secondary, but only on a certain level. On another level the opposition between Princess and the naked body appears as the ontological difference, as Differance. On this level the difference is not an opposition, the opposing sides do not foreclose one another. In this way this difference does not foreclose itself.
The Princess has come from the other side of the Baltic Sea to stay or to leave, she can do both – the Princess doesn’t relate to the Baltic Sea as a foreclosing, excluding difference.
What is serious must be taken seriously, and God is the one, who deserves all the blessed seriousness, but man is made to be Gods plaything, and this really is the best in man. Because of that every man and woman must follow this wisdom and live their life playing most beautiful games.
(Plato, The Laws, VII 803 CD)
Translation Mart Kangur
Exhibition is closed 23. December-1. January
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