"The Shaking Hands & Making Conflicts symposium will be held at Färgfabriken, Centre for Contemporary Art & Architecture, April 23-26, 1998. It is produced on the initiative of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Färgfabriken, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Swedish Institute. It is held in the installation/theatre play "Dabloids" by the Russian artist Leonid Tischkov. The symposium aims to create a lasting network - a Partnership for Culture - for artists and intellectuals, with special emphasis upon the young, first and foremost from the Baltic Sea countries, together with Byelorussia and the Ukraine. 0. "The Dabloids are a sort of symbol for each person's mental luggage", says the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov.

Dog House. Fargfabriken, Stockholm, 2 March 1996



It was suggested that Kulik produce his Dog House project within Interpol , an exhibition devoted to the problem of communication. The artist was invited as a sort of ready-made to stay in a specially built house. The audience was warned that any communication with the artist, who denounced the language of culture, was dangerous and that no one should cross the borders of his territory. Following the logic of this action Kulik bit a Mr. Lindquist who had neglected the warning. Kulik was arrested by the Swedish police. This performance and the exhibition as a whole aroused scandalous response from the media. Interpol was called an event that divided the art world into East and West. Kulik published an explanation of his action in response to demands made by the exhibition's curators. (See his letter entitled Why I Have Bitten a Man)

The sepia hairy Wenda Gu still centred, acts like a central point to it all. Brener is setting up a drumkit, so obviously he's going to bang away. The "Purple Prose" gang is here to get the Interpol prize instigated by Cattelan as an art project Y hmm, well, alright.
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro3.htm


I started my drum performance and then destroyed Wenda Gu's installation. Why his? In my view, it was a symbol of this collapsed and failed project under the idiotic name Y Interpol.
Alexander Brener. Ticket that Exploded
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm

The night before artist Gutov invited everyone to a dinner which was a part of his project. The plan of the dinner was to discuss the preliminary results of the Interpol. Everyone kept silet. I stood up and said that the project had been transformed beyond recognition and that, essentially, it had failed. The only response that came was a weak statement by Borut Volgelnik. The dinner was eaten and bottles were emptied.--http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm
Alexander Brener. Ticket that Exploded
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm