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Following several performances where Ježik has used construction equipment and tools to demolish, perforate or scar different surfaces, this sound performance using three dump trucks and contact microphones amplified the sound of rubble moving in the truck beds, either through falling as the beds were raised or being pushed back by construction workers. The work underlines the idea of futility and waste, as the energy spent to move the rubble around to create the sounds is repetitive and pointless, a simile of recent sociopolitical processes in Mexico: a postmodern myth of Sisiphus. Commissioned for the fiftieth anniversary of Centro Cultural del Bosque.
Enrique Ježik's work focuses on power, violence, biopolitics and the excessive use of force using video installations, performances, sculptures and other media.