Art is Power

The ritual transmission of amilitary parade from Moscows Red Square On every anniversary of the October Revolution this was loyally broadcast byall the television stations in the socalled peoples democraciesIn Robakowskis work this material is used toreconstruct and deconstruct public spectacle The substitution of the original television commentary with asong sung in German byLaibach agroup from what was then Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia removes the spectacle from its pompous temporal context and reveals the absolutism of its alluring powerThe totalitarian display is in itself art politically active art the art of allout pathos even if wecall it only quote art unquote