Alexander Paschka /Leila Wexe
Something Happening Here /Leila Wexe
Alexander Paschka, curator/artist, and Ladislov Hanka, artist/beekeeper, are smiling.
On the rooftop terrace of the UICA they are relaxing at a table before the doors open, sitting among shadows of protectors/oppressors and mutually targeted firearms hung together in an outline of the United States.
In the background, artist Joe Simon hammers and grinds his robotic pony into life.
“Every one of us has a deeper pivot within us upon which we base our beliefs," says Hanka. "We change our beliefs, but we don't change us.” They have been talking for about 30 minutes and have reached the end of a long story. It seems like one of those rare instants spoken about in Sunday’s talks for the UN International Day of Peace, an instant awaited for decades, never to return. Simon’s sturdy little pony gambols around in its corral.
Below, in the coolness of the architecture, groups of ArtPrize visitors begin to stream through the door.
"My hope," says Paschka, "is that awareness becomes popular."
Listen to the full conversation here.
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