NON GRATA - "ART OF THE INVISIBLES"
Voluntarily Out of Focus

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes
for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of
conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted
disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of
nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from
the point, where the art world ends, NONGRATA has been a liberator, the
orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays
us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical -
it is the image of primitivism, unpersonality and experimental
creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the
logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose
ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions
by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are
represented in places, where the Art World doesn´t work.



NON GRATA is a Performance Group from Estonia. To the group belongs
around 40 members from mostly from Estonia, also from Quebec, Finland,
Latvia, Germany, USA, France, Germany, Chile.
The main characteristics of the members are ANONYMITY in group work,
ignorance of local art world and mass media. Group has performed in
Iceland, USA, Chile, South-Korea, Europe, Scandinavia with performances,
street actions and long lasting ghettomaratons. Group runs also
alternative art academy called Academia Non Grata. Educational output of
NONGRATA Performance Group. Using in public educational politics cover
institutions. 2001-2004 in official university level, after this free
academy. Distinctive characteristics [WINDOWS-1252?]- synthesis of all cultural spheres
and nontraditional teaching methods.

www.nongrata.ee