WANTED HERE ON EARTH
2021
Anna Zakelj
performance 11:25 min
Pedvale Art Park
Sabile, Latvia

Sculpture 'Opened Stone 8-4=4' by Ojārs Feldbergs

Text by Roger Caillois & Ojārs Feldbergs
Voices of Ojārs Feldbergs & Mirjana Medojević
Videography by Janis Schroeder

What if when you die, all you are is matter, no different from the egg shells and spoiled milk in the compost bin? No different from a stone.

And what if we have been doing it all wrong, personifying the object when we should have been objectifying the person?

Is human life the most precious?

Are there rocks in heaven?

A rock with skin. A body with stillness.
The body does not go into the rock. The rock goes into the body. The body becomes the rock. They become similar. they become objects existing in the same space.