At the beginnings of the 90's Darko Maver starts to realize the installations for the series Tanz der Spinne. «Even just speaking of these actions is somehow difficult. Installations? Performances? Both, but of a very special kind»

They are simulations of violent murders. Maver used to build hyper-real mannequins of corpses and then leave them in public places such as hotels, hospitals, houses, public toilets or in the countryside. Later somebody arriving on the crime scene called the police believing he found a real corpse. The installations were so skillfully made that, at first glance, it was almost impossible to realize they were splatter-movie like reconstructions. The fact used to provoke strong reactions by the media, punctually reviewed for each discovery.

No mannequin ever existed and no Serbian newspaper ever reported Darko Maver’s performances. The images, that have been believed as "lifesize mannequin" are actually photos of real crimes, horrifying images of corpses freely available on the Internet.