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It was in 1974 or 1975

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Back then the political relationships
between Israel and Yugoslavia

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were at their worst.

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Socialist Yugoslavia was
then supporting Egypt

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to which it had strong political ties.

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The process of non-alignment
starts from there.

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That's why the relations with Israeli
society and culture were somewhat cool

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Besides, this performance took
place during the April Meetings

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at the Student Cultural Center
which were an open space

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where Yugoslav artists gathered

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-- mainly from Belgrade, Zagreb,
Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Sarajevo --

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and met with international artists

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from different cultural backgrounds.

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Certainly the most famous one
was Joseph Beuys.

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But also Rebecca Horn,
Tom Marioni from the US, Gina Pane...

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A whole range from
that generation of performers

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and conceptual artists.

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I particularly remember
one of the performances

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Well I don't remember
the performer's name

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but it was a performance
by an Isreali artist

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that consisted of a
fairly simple activity.

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He was moving around
the gallery space

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But in the middle of his performance
a young man entered the gallery

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with shaved hair -- which was
highly unusual back then

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as we all had long, fuzzy hair --

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who started to strip down
to his underwear.

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First, he took his shirt off,
then his jeans

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In this very moment, two policemen
entered the gallery running

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and interrupted the performance,
arresting the stripper,

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saying the performance
could not take place

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due to the excess
that had just happened.

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It turned out later
that this young man

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was a police officer himself

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and that this action was performed

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in order to interrupt the
Israeli artist's performance

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which means there was
no official instruction

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ordering the interruption
of the performance

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or directly censoring it.

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Instead, they staged
an indirect excess

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in order to stop the performance.

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Translation & Subtitles:
Nastasia Louveau