"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

ORLAN

(c)image: ICC Archive
MesuRAGE de la place Saint-Lambert, Liège , 1980
Performance

26 - 28.04.1980 This time, ORLAN's mesuRAGE was requested by a neighborhood association in Liège, in order to campaign against a new urban development project. This action lasted four days and included the presence of a bulldozer (hired by the artist herself) which carried the ORLAN-body around.

26 - 28.04.1980 This action in Liège assumed a more political and publicized nature. ORLAN’s performance was solicited by a neighborhood association that was campaigning to protect a square under threat due to lack of a development project. Over a four-day period, ORLAN physically committed herself to this cause. She called on a bulldozer, the very machine used to demolish the square, to carry the ORLAN-Body - like rubble - from one spot to another.