Live Ammo connects the relation between art and reality, when art goes into the sphere of life. Art practice in such circumstance can be a new way of life and a surviving strategy in the social. In other words, the content, technique, effect and affection of art can change and, in turn, subjectivize art.
Here, the performativity of art happening in social milieu must be vilified through its effect of speech act. This is exactly what situationists’ assault to the society of the spectacle, a kind of reversal mimesis to actualize in real life. Therefore, live ammo cannot longer be measured by its falsity, blank ammunition, but its effect to the truth—an art practice to play for real. The truth and the real must be revealed through its profanity, just because when art in the real life situation can solidify different regime of representation, the trope of reality must be alternated. As result, this specific kind of art practice demolishes the separation of art and its related discipline.
Live Ammo deals with the sphere of art, the living and reality conglomerate. In the exhibition a shift in the order of reality is presented, and different perspectives and arrangements are consider to render a new sequence of text, sound and images. The exhibition functions almost as a know-how toolbox, and carries out the mission of the impossible, an onslaught from the power of fiction, which resides in art, to threat what we realize as reality and, thus, to arrive at the crossroad where the aesthetic and the social meets.