Facade (NG's Cock), 2008

This public space project is a re-creation of a known performance by Milan Knížák from the 60's when he was still a key figure in Czechoslovak underground contemporary art. In his performance, Knížák was stretched on the ground in Prague reading a book with a sign next to him that said: "I bid everyone passing by this spot to crow". At the time in a repressed communist society it was a fresh and enlightening piece. In the 2000's Knížák became the general director of the National Gallery and became the embodiment of what he had fought in his younger years, destroying the Contemporary Art Museum of the NG, exhibiting his own works, and behaving overall like many dilettante east-europeans who had suddenly gained power. The project Facade (NG's Cock) is a projection of the same sentence used by Knížák in the 60's onto the Facade of the Contemporary Art Collection building of the National Gallery, while he was still it's director.