2006-14
Rotten Days (Graz), 2006
Rotten Days (Rotterdam), 2014
Rotten Days (Seoul), 2014
Daily sign-painting performance
A collaboration with Tim Etchells
Images from The Part in the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Rotten Days is a performative work based around a selection of provocative, often ill-humoured texts by artists Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells, painted daily on a wall of the exhibition space. Each text is displayed for only one day before being painted over and replaced with a new one – the change orchestrated through a simple daily action/performance carried out by a member of staff of the institution presenting the work, according to the artists’ schedule.
The work – new statements and the accumulating traces of previous ones layered in a single designated area on the gallery wall – emphasizes the provisional nature of the ideas it proposes in language, drawing viewers into a direct relation with its slogans and messages, in equal measure blank, disconcerting, comical and playfully confrontational.
Project tumbl here.
