Being originally a Hoodoo custom (Hoodoo = a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic, mostly found in the Southern United States), bottle trees were made as a means of protecting the home by trapping evil spirits within the colorful bottles. Though scarce today, bottle trees are still created for their artistic appeal.
The title track of Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Oddysey’ played by a highschool-orchestra the Portsmouth Sinfonia (an orchestra founded by a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art in Portsmouth, England, in 1970), coupled with the original film footage…
An installation consisting of 4 plexiglass boxes filled with ant colonies, and 1 empty box in the middle. During the course of the exhibition, the ants constructed a hill in the middle box.
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief, ‘The last supper’
‘Little shrine’
The trailer of a documentary on Schlingensief’s action ‘Auslaender raus!’
Christoph Schlingensief died last Saturday, the 21st of August, at the age of 49.
Watch the documentary “Deutschland, deine Kuenstler: Christoph Schlingensief” below.
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