totart

TOTART is an art project series. This time about duels.
A duel between a shooter and a dummy was simulated – with live bullets.
The public order office approved this project under one condition:
to cut the head off the dummy.
Don’t shoot on a thing that looks like a human being.
A good rule.
But does a dummy without head doesn’t look like a human being anymore?
And isn’t it much more brutal to behead the dummy like a terrorist than to manufacture some tops with bullet holes?
The project shows one of millions of farcial regulations of our authorities in a very cruel way.
The t-shirts, longsleeves and hoodies of the inferior dueler were sold at a happening.
All the sound effects used in the TOTART movie are original sounds from the shooting.
Some sound like big waves, some like the snoring of a public servant.
The quotes are from “rules of duels” published in 1871.
Rules that are very contemporary in times of only winners and losers and nothing inbetween.

The authorities stipulated that the mannequin's head had to be removed. Otherwise we would not have received permission to shoot. Shooting a body whose head had previously been torn off was no problem for the authorities.