8.6. 2018, Cheb Backyard Festival
Photo by Gallery 4, Martin Svojtka and Josef Tuma
Translation to Czech by Sylva Ficová
www.rosscaldwell.com/babylonian/MAQLURIT.pdf

Burn the evidence. Burn yourself. Performance art series based on the Old Babylonian text „Maqlú“ (Burning), a protective ritual consisting of nine tablets. Each performance deals with one of them, referring to a different spiritual tradition. At the end of the performance, the audience can burn up some small object that symbolizes what they want to eliminate in their life. It is always a site-specific action dedicated to a particular space.