600 meters above sea level

600 meters above sea level
 (a case of a self-managed monument)

two-channel video installation with stones made of paper, potato starch and chicken wire
film, color, 15’25’’
2024

Archiving Naš Tito (Our Tito), a sign made of large, white-painted stones to the east of the border dividing hillside upon Italy and Slovenia, former Yugoslavia.

Since entering the European Union on May 1 2004, the sign has been respelled several times, removed in part, and is restored, annually, by a group of locals.

The work considers the sign and the site in the context of collective, public and private property.

600 meters above sea level, film stills

“About 5 per cent of the world’s energy goes into crushing and grinding rocks.”
John McGagh, Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation