[This post is about the 1970 film White People by the Slovenian artist collective OHO. If you have arrived here by mistake looking for a White People of OHIO Manifesto, click on this link here to be redirected]
Like OHO, we were critical of the idea of the display space as somehow hermetic or self-sufficient environment; art, we thought, must be seen in relationship to other systems.
Text: from Zdenka Badovinac ‘Sites of Sustainability’ in her book Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International, 2019), originally published as ‘Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts’ in Hello Worlds: Revising a Collection by Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein (Hirmer, 2018).
Images: screengrab stills from the film Beli Ljudi (White People) (1970), directed by Skupina OHO (OHO Group).
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