Interview w/ NONGRATA

NONGRATA is a Performance Group from Estonia. Around 40 members belong to the group, mostly from Estonia, also from Quebec, Finland, Latvia, Germany, USA, and France. The main characteristics of the members are ANONYMITY in group work, ignorance of local art world and mass media. The group has performed in Iceland, USA, South Korea, France, Germany, Finland, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, England, Sweden with street actions and long lasting "GHETTOMARATONS" - 14 days in the Cellar, 240h Asylum, 336h Experimental Space, etc. Around the name NONGRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of the human person, from which the meaningless of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point where the art world ends, NONGRATA has been the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, and it is cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose way of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members.