SISYPHUS ON THE PLAIN
The Clear Brooks Family, Serbia
The happening Sisyphus on the Plainis a set of street actions sculptured in movements, tree logs and sticks. The essence of this happening is people – man is more than salvation and because of that, human energy and nature become symbiosis of avant-garde suggestions in art. Philosophy behind this piece is the critique of the contemporary life of laziness, abandonment of vitality and surrender to the ‘religion of easy’. Man would like to enjoy comfort, but he has lost his will in it. The return to the elementum is a sign that anamnesis, memory of the original man, is still alive in man. Hölderlin sings that the one who lives close to the source does not leave his place.
The Clear Brooks Family is a commune that has been living in Mount Rudnik for thirty-eight years. Its main actions include return to nature, open home, modest economy and art. Božidar Mandić, its founder, is a writer, theatrologist and visual art researcher. He contributes for the dailies ‘Danas’ and ‘Politika’, and is a member of the Children’s Programme Section of Radio Belgrade. The Clear Brooks Family fights for the Planet and the Individual.