Friday, 20. May 2022, at 18.30 p.m.
Happening
A Howl for the Epoch, Family of Clear Streams / Porodica bistrih potoka

The happening "A Howl for the Epoch" is a rebellion against a time when homo sapiens is being replaced by homo devastaticus. We are witnesses to the terrible destruction of nature and civilization. We are in an eschatological moment in which reason is being lost and meaning destroyed. The struggle between light and darkness, humanity and militaristic forces is on the scene. The twenty-first century has become the age of the sick spirit and the spirit of disease. War is not a precedent, but a platform on which everyone is happy. From our perspective of living in the forest, we recognize a technological, scientific, and plutocratic hegemony. By howling, we want to oppose the growth of aggression, the disjoining of the poor from the rich, the destruction of nature and life… The world will not be better, but reality can become. As Baudrillard says, we need to criticize the simulacrum in order to fall back into the truth. The only things I believe in are the individual and the planet. Do not be impressed by such a world - a "paradigm with sacrifice" has already been created. Civilization has become a bus rushing through the chasm, while people are fighting for the seats. "Colorful fascism" is the imperialized subconscious within man. The artist has become a client of capital. Designers used to support painters and the journalists supported writers - now it is the other way around. The free market has become the greatest inquisitor of beauty because it dictates mediocre aesthetics. "Invertophrenia” is on the scene. The empire no longer attacks but vacuums up - like a "black hole."

It is precisely for those reasons that we decided long ago to create works of art derived from the "aesthetics of wildness." The happening titled "A Howl for the Epoch" is the awakening of our commune - and my own self - to restore the dignity of art and life, with our beings and the irritation of the cosmos. We will bring our energy from the forest with simple elementary movements, songs, lyrics (along with the music of wooden percussion and the musical score of a chatterbox). Personally, he does not believe in social perception because he does not believe in the perception of ants. A happening is an expression of sincerity, courage, simplicity - a kind of "holy trinity of authenticity." Witold Gombrowicz used to say: "When courage turns into fear, there is no cure for that disease.” Our dedication to art leads us to primordial values ​​- everything is in man, everything is man! The first propriety forces the manipulation to withdraw and disappear. The age of the child (liberiarchy) and innocence is our proposal for getting out of the labyrinth in which humanity is stuck.

Božidar Mandić

(translated by Jana Jevtović)