MY SECOND SUN

Medium:    Three reflective mirrors (2x2, 4x2, 2x2 m.)
Test tube (12x180 cm)
Content tubes:  artist’s sperm (100gr.), artist’s blood (5gr.), soap (1.5l), water (6l)

The distance between two reference points shared by the river is 3 km.
Operating time:  from 16:30h to 17:15h (central level begins to reflect the sun's rays at 16:30 and then left area at 16:45 and right area at 17:15).
These reflections are focused on the content of tubes that are positioned on the roof of the complex of ITS-Z1.
The intention of Dragan Ilic is artificially to speed up the process of DNA mutations that will be manifested through the transparent chemical events. This experiment is scheduled for 2th of July when with presence of chemists will begin artificial, systematic process that would function as a site-specific outdoor work.
Element of surprise and prediction also is crucial.
The artist came to these ideas through a many years of interest in natural phenomena (earthquakes, solar radiation, atmospheric events, inter planetary processes) and the need to try to overcome the fear of the unknown through the creation of personal mechanisms and experiments in order to find ways:
1. to speed up - or bridle the natural processes
2. to adapt to future natural changes, because
"Nature is aggressive and we can not believe her - you need to be ready for her surprises."
Through the title of "My second sun" Ilic constructs a world for himself by introducing "Artificial sun" and in that way creating his own “solar system”.
Dragan Ilic was developing this project since 1969. when he began to collect his sperm, till 1982. Then came to the idea to encase it into tubes and exposed to external influences, and views of visitors of the Documenta 7 in Kassel, under the auspices of Fashion Mode. After that in 1988 in Williamsburg he exhibited this substance to cathode rays and laser light that resulted with the formation of groups of cell colonies and their orientation towards the radiation source.
Completion of this project and certainly it’s expansion in terms of introducing and mixing different substances, such as semen, blood and soap, with all documentation and samples will be exposed to visitors at second of July 2011.
On that occasion the two artists (Dragan Ilic and Stelarc) each in their own field of work will be carried out the extension of human impact on natural determination.