"Kuritöö ja karistus / Преступление и наказание"
"Crime and Punishment"
Koostöös Villem Jahu ja Juhan Vihterpaliga Üheksanda märtsi tegevuskunstifestivalil galeriis Metropol 6m2
In collaboration with Villem Jahu and Juhan Vihterpal at 9th March Performance Art Festival in gallery Metropol 6m2, Tallinn (Estonia)
Seitsmeteistkümnendal sõjapäeval
On the seventeenth day of the war
2022
"Crime and Punishment"
Koostöös Villem Jahu ja Juhan Vihterpaliga Üheksanda märtsi tegevuskunstifestivalil galeriis Metropol 6m2
In collaboration with Villem Jahu and Juhan Vihterpal at 9th March Performance Art Festival in gallery Metropol 6m2, Tallinn (Estonia)
Seitsmeteistkümnendal sõjapäeval
On the seventeenth day of the war
2022
I watched TV yesterday
and drank my evening beer,
I sat in a soft armchair
and looked at the bombed city.
I sipped the soup the woman had made
and I looked at the children
who were became a victims of the chemical attack.
I looked at the line of body bags and the tanks driving in the streets,
in between of that, I sipped a nice yellow and foamy beer from a glass.
I chewed with a beer
nice dried flatfish
then I saw the line of corpses again
and for a moment I was embarrassed.
It's okay, it passed - I continued watching.
I continued to drink beer,
I kept eating,
I was warm and fine
and my wife was already waiting for me in bed.
I turned off the TV
and never thought again
that it is all real.
Performance'is kasutatud tekst on kirjutatud 2016 aastal, Aleppo pommitamisele ajal Süüria ja Venemaa režiimide poolt. Kahjuks sobivad samad sõnad kirjeldama ka Groznõi, Mariupoli ja paljude teiste linnade hävingut.
This text, used in the performance was written in 2016, during the bombing of Aleppo by the Syrian and Russian regimes. Unfortunately, the same words can be used to describe the destruction of Grozny, Mariupol and many other cities.
Fotod: väljavõtted Meelis Salujärve videodokumentatsioonist
Photos: screenshots from video-documentation made by Meelis Salujärv