Monday, January 25, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
"It sounds stupid, but you see that woman sitting over there, eating? There's something sad about that. You look a little closer, and you see the way she's cutting her meat. And the way she puts the fork into the food and takes a bite. And the way she's chewing.. You know? Normal, everyday things. But I see that...and I could cry my eyes out. (...) Some kind of loneliness. She could have a hundred people waiting for her in the car. And it can destroy me. Just the honesty. The need for it. "
(Johnny Depp)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
This is under my skin
| THE DYING SWAN IS DYING Performance, 25 min., KX.kampnagel, Hamburg, October 2000 and Gallery Tommy Lund, Copenhagen 2001
Now he picks up a saw and tries to cut of his beak, but because of the metal wires in the he also needs a metal cutter before he is able to cut it of and nail it on the picture. He takes of the last piece of fur from his head and nails that on as well. The last thing he adds to the picture is his big feet, which he places on the floor under the picture as an extension of the drawing of his legs. I take of the "inner costume" made of foam as well as my papier maché head, and leave it on the floor as I leave the room through the opposite door as I entered. The performance deals with different aspects of self reflection and divisions between ideals and reality. The Dying Swan is ready to sacrifice himself in order to create the perfect image. This could be a comment on the myth of the self sacrificing artist, but to me it just as much has to do with split personalities and the experience of the gab between reality and image in general.
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