Beyond the landscape there is nothing. Landscape exists even then, when there is nothing around.
The landscape is here-being.
We liberate landscapes making the art, transforming them from one state into another. We allow possible yet non-existing landscapes into the real landscape, thus completing the latter. And we tear away fragments of reality, transplanting them upon the landscapes of our brains. This way topography, the only principle of which is topology, i.e. the unceasing of wrong areas, is created.
Real space is that, that comes into another one. And in the place of a junction/transition one can feel strength of time currents. This is why time also depends upon possibilities of leaking into inter-space. And time becomes an integral part of the landscape coming closer to it (yet there is no air-tight space). Time is also put, or placed, somewhere upon the topologic landscapes of the brain: on the terrains where visions, and calculations, and symbols, and faults, and vice come true.
A European landscape is chopped more than the landscape of European space; a landscape of European plastics is both a structure and con-structure, and also a restructure. There are several structures that remain unchanged and cardinal. A structure is formed by the myths, beyond which destruction dares not come. And among those myths there is a tiny arc that outlines a small part of Europe, and this arc is called the Eastern Carpathians.
This space is locked on only one side. On the other it slowly flows into a gigantic abyss of the Asian desolation. Flow of time cannot be crammed into any of the functions. The landscape digs into the Western obstacle and starts migration to the East. This is un-point, un-time and un-flow. This is Galicia; this is ‘essaide deconstruction’ of the European landscape’s universal space in above-time. This is reverberation. This is unbearable easiness of being. This is dictatorship of the choice opportunity. And the liberty has liberty to be liberated.
Project and concept
YAROSLAV YANOVSKY and
Pavlo Drobyak, Rostyslav Koterlin, Anatolij Zvizhynskyj, Taras Prohasko, Volodymyr Yeshkilev, Vesela Naydenova, Jurij Andruhovych, Myroslav Korol, Myroslav Yaremak, Roman Mykhajlyshyn, Jaroslav Dovgan.
©Taras Prohasko,1996.
