As a modern sacrifice, Sandro Dernini performed the elimination of the artistic director in Plexus, against the pyramidal structure of the star system of the artworld, creating new contemporary form of slavery. Assane MBaye invited all artists to go to Dakar-Goree in 1988 as continuation of the Plexus art journey, and as closing act Arturo Lindsay as the ancestral messenger set on fire a box containing all participants’ signatures.
Over a week long period, from 1-4 July, 160 artists from various art fields and cultures,
coming from 23 different nationalities, answered to the 1986 Plexus International Call
sent out from New York City in 1986. They paid their own travelling and worked together
as guests of the Municipality of Gavoi, interacting with community and with the magic panorama
of the wild mountains of the Barbagia of Sardinia, within the environmental time-space of the
megalithic menhir of Sa Itria, in which so many artists speaking different
languages and codes, were free to express themselves in the first person without curators,
mediators and critics.