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[Fernando José Pereira]

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> DOG CARPETS - a project by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
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> Article in the popular daily newspaper 'Extra'
> On march 06, 2007 in La Paz, Bolivia
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> DOG CARPETS (2007)
> A project by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
> Museo Tambo Quirquincho
> La Paz, Bolivia
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> Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic
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> Kressling Gallery, Slovakia
> www.gallerykressling.sk
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> Phone: +421 903 230 303
> Contact: Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
> brodypaetau  googlemail.com
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> www.brodypaetau.com
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> DOG CARPETS - a project by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau (january  
> - may 2007)
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> Excerpt from an interview with Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau by  
> Kristofer Paetau, april2008.
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> See full documentation at: http://www.brodypaetau.com/?page_id=119
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> What is this project about?
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> Ondrej: The dog carpets are essentially about society's hypocrisy.  
> It questions the special status that dogs and cats have in our,  
> western society. Although we can see that in China, despite the  
> local culture and cuisine, the pet culture is on its rise as well.  
> The Bolivian experience was about hypocrisy as well, but it involved  
> on a larger and direct scale mechanisms and structures within the  
> society.
> Kristofer: It's about the tradition of producing carpets with wild  
> animals as a hunting fetish. But in this case we were using an  
> inappropriate animal, a pet - and like this we wanted to question  
> the values behind this tradition. Ondrej was speaking to me about  
> this idea already before the Bolivia show, but when I got the  
> opportunity to participate in that show I thought it would be  
> interesting to realize the dog carpets there with Ondrej, mainly for  
> three reasons: more adventure, lower production costs and the  
> problem of street dogs in South America (in contrast to the beloved  
> inhouse pet in North America and in most European countries).
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> How did you proceed to realize the work and how important was the  
> local context for realizing the work?
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> Ondrej: The context is always important. In fact in comparison to  
> most countries in Europe, in Bolivia (La Paz) there is a great  
> concentration of street dogs. We were informed then, that there is a  
> municipal company called Zoonosis which is in charge of hunting  
> street dogs and dealing with animals within the city of La Paz. They  
> catch about 100 dogs a week and execute them every friday noon. We  
> were supposed to prepare a project that would take place in a city  
> Museum called Museo Tambo Quirquincho. The communication with  
> Zoonosis was relatively simple, since both institutions were run by  
> the city. We requested to obtain 10 sacrificed dogs for our  
> "installation". This seemed to be a perfect paradox. A hunting  
> carpet from a dog that is being hunted by the society.
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> Kristofer: The local context was striking: when we went out in the  
> center of the city at night there were dogs all over the streets  
> eating garbage. We discovered that there is a whole municipal  
> organisation dealing with the problem of street dogs in La Paz. The  
> municipal service Zoonosis is hunting for street dogs during night  
> time and collecting the dogs in a kind of dog prison and then  
> killing them, about 100 dogs every week. We went to visit Zoonosis  
> and talked to them about our project and we also explained our  
> project to the director of the Museo Tambo Quirquincho. She wrote a  
> recommendation letter for us and with this letter we went to  
> Zoonosis again and met with the director. He signed and gave us a  
> small post-it to authorise us to get 10 killed dogs the following  
> week...
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> Excerpt from an interview with Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau by  
> Kristofer Paetau, april2008.
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> See full documentation at: http://www.brodypaetau.com/?page_id=119
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