Art and the analysis of myth

The paper discusses the mediation between the anthropological and artistic approach to myth. Created in the co-operation with the artistic group ′Bazaart′, it tries to make the anthropological analysis of myth usable in every other sense, so it should be also understood as applied anthropology. Fragments of myth are often in the focus of intellectual curiosity and artistic creation, but if they are not previously analytically processes and interpreted, than the direct creative approach to myth becomes a new uncultivated myth-making. Classic anthropological analyses like the structural analyses, with their results can enable a deeper artistic insight into myth, but only after they were transformed and translated from the ′heavy′ structuralist language into the language available to the artist. The paper also points to the dangers of neomythical consciousness, which, if it is analytically non-elaborated, can lead the artist - whose intentions converge with the scientific ones and who tends towards presenting the artistic experience of the world - to the path of manifold arbitrariness. Therefore, the artistic experience of myth which reflects the artist’s state of consciousness must be preceded by the deconstruction of that myth to bring its social reality to light