05/07/2025 - 4 July 1987, the First Plexus International Ar Slaves Market Art Co-Opera Gavoi n.4, Sardinia

 

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.