Etiqueta: Mladen Stilinović

The decision to not enter the production logics of the art system is to be read in Mladen Stilinović’s 1993 manifesto The Praise of Laziness. His ‘laziness’ (augmented by the images of him sleeping in the 1978 piece Artist at work) is in fact an active process of critical statements about art and the self-perpetuating bureaucracy around it, both under the socialist and the capitalist systems.

➝ Praise of laziness