In honour of my dissertation, I am going to choose only Eastern European artists for a while.
Mindaugas Šimkus was born in 1973 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Inventing the Bicycle All over Again (1996)
object, a real bicycle with wheels connected with an electric cable instead of tyres
'An ironical monument to Marcel Duchamp, Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard. The first ready-made object by Marcel Duchamp, the bicycle wheel, legitimated the usage of found objects, and this strategy is being “discovered” repeatedly. McLuhan elaborated his theory of media according to which technologies are prolongations of a human body (the wheel is replaced by the cable). Finally, is it possible to discover anything new, even repeatedly, if reality has been eaten by simulacra long since?'
