{"id":128,"title":"August 20th, 1968","dimensions":"variable dimensions","date_begin":"2000-01-01","material":"mixed media","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":7,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"installation","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2000-01-01","reference":"S0329b","stream_count_app":48,"permalink":"august-20th-1968","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ilya \u0026 Emilia Kabakov ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/163/large/321Kabakov,%20Ilya%20%20and%20Emilia,%20%20August%2020th,%201968%20,%202000%201fotoA4Avzw.jpg?1297695164","poster_credits":"(c)image: A4Avzw.","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAugust 20th, 1968\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;refers to the day the Russian army moved its tanks into the streets of Prague to suppress the stirrings of the Prague Spring. At the centre of this narrative environment stands a mechanical model of a theatre, reminiscent of early constructivist theatre maquettes. Pushing the button in the front of the maquette will bathe the theatrical scene in a dim light, while a typically melancholy Russian tune starts playing. Movement in the crowd and the troupe of performers is limited, however, to a monkey holding a set of cymbals in his hand. The theatre is surrounded by a number of wooden reading tables displaying a rich panoply of sketches, notes, cuttings and other paper items that help give shape to the artist\u0026#39;s dreamy reconstruction of a time long gone. These reading tables are in turn encircled by a series of upright wooden panels holding up the newspapers that report on the events of August 20, 1968\u0026mdash;in Prague as well as in other parts of the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKabakov\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"http://www.kabakov.net/installations/2019/9/8/august-20-1968\"\u003edescribes\u003c/a\u003e the concept of the\u0026nbsp;installation in the following way:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003col data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\r\n\t\u003cp\u003eThe outer ring\u0026mdash;the reaction of the world press to this event.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\t\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\r\n\t\u003cp\u003eThe inner ring\u0026mdash;what Kabakov was working on at the time in my studio\u0026mdash;the ordinary work, and in essence, there was no reaction whatsoever to this event.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\t\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\r\n\t\u003cp\u003eThe circus inside the installation\u0026mdash; its centre\u0026mdash;is a unique metaphor of Soviet society and each Soviet person individually\u0026mdash;total passivity and lack of reaction, the absence of a response to what is going on outside of the closed world. Hence, everything together forms a sort of complex comprised of various spaces: the external space consisting of the surrounding world, the world of politics and social cataclysms; the middle space\u0026mdash;the world of the everyday and commonplace affairs of the artist; and the middle\u0026mdash;the world of imagination and na\u0026iuml;ve mythology that is very far away in essence and place from the world of social reality and everyday concerns.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\t\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003c/ol\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAugust 20th, 1968\u003c/em\u003e verwijst naar de dag waarop het Russische leger zijn tanks in de straten van Praag bracht om de oproer van de Praagse Lente te onderdrukken. In het midden van deze verhalende installatie staat een mechanisch schaalmodel van een theater dat doet denken aan theatermaquettes uit het vroege constructivisme. Met een druk op de knop voor de maquette komt het theater tot leven - maar dit blijft beperkt tot het flauwe schijnsel van een lampje en een solitair dansend aapje met bekken. Het theater wordt omringd door een aantal houten leestafels met een rijkdom aan schetsen, notities, uitsnijdingen en ander papierwerk, welke samen vorm geven aan Kabakovs dromerige reconstructie van lang vervlogen tijden. Deze leestafels worden dan weer omringd door een cirkel van opstaande houten panelen met kranten die verslag doen van de gebeurtenissen van 20 Augustus 1968 - zowel in Praag als in andere delen van de wereld.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":19,"name":"Ilya \u0026 Emilia Kabakov ","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}