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P I E T A
In the times of AIDS

PIETA In The Times Of AIDS is an appeal to the hearts of all those people, groups and cultures harbouring and propelling feelings of stigma and forces of discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, against their families or neighbours.

PIETA In The Times Of AIDS especially wants to address the pain, suffering and horror caused by blind religious leaders spreading thought, moral views and beliefs which kindle feelings and actions of stigma and discrimination in the hearts of their very sons and daughters, sisters and brothers.

PIETA In The Times Of AIDS attempts to reflect the vast body of the Church and Sangha being heavily infected by HIV/AIDS. The PIETA is wished to be a catalyst for a spiritual revolution becoming the antidote and the medicine against inner, outer and secret tendencies and forces of stigma, discrimination and destruction, and against both worldly and spiritual ignorance.

PIETA In The Times Of AIDS is a painful outcry for a collectively and individually suppressed sexuality that distorts and stigmatises self and other as well as the knowledge about methods and means for Safer Sex.

Therefore PIETA In The Time Of AIDS is also a dedication and a reminder for the suppressed love and compassion for the present living and dying victims of the disease – women, men and children – and for a great number of healthy human beings who neither have the will, ability nor possibility for the practice of abstinence.
Being denied this fundamental love, understanding and compassion and thereby the chance for learning how to protect the lives of themselves and others by applying Safer Sex methods, the latter run great danger of contracting the disease, at every moment, world-wide.


The work and its symbols

PIETA In The Times Of AIDS is a composition of a clay sculpture, graphic design and music with symbols echoing both thoughts of Western and Eastern arts and religion.

The physical sculpture has the form of a triangle, pieta, deity or a simple meditator.

It was photographed and given the colour purple (symbolizing inter alia the power of catholic bishops, cardinals, feminist movements; archetypal for a hermaphrodite)

Its background is golden (taken from a painted halo from the Middle Ages).

Around the statue a circle of following words is rotating clockwise/slowly:

IN PAIN IN LOVE IN PLEASURE IN COMPASSION (IN PAIN IN LOVE etc)

The pauses between the four expressions are like the open spaces/endpoints to form the axes of an invisible cross, time and space.

The music accompanying the animation is a whistled passage from J.S. Bach´s Agnus Dei (the lamb of God) recorded by a simple dictaphone.

The PIETA is a creative common by maaa members.






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