Flooding.

Jul. 19th, 2011 10:25 pm
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I'm feeling accomplished and a little tired after doing some last minute prepping for an important task outside my usual schedule and a little outside my area of responsibility. I just hope it works the way I planned.

Posting some more arty pictures is my way of relaxing.

Here's one of my favourite exhibitions from the Arp Museum:
The official documentation does it much better, but here are some of my impressions.
The artists are Swiss, by the way.



The installation appealed to the hoarder in me and at the same time told me that masses of stuff can be swept away in an instant by the floods and in the end it all turns back into mud.

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The were so many details to spot in the piles of things, from phones to computer bits and pieces and stuffed animals and toys and furniture and it was overgrown by fake and real plants and just amazing. You could walk up close and inside.



I liked this piece of driftwood. It's good that I don't live close to the water or I'd have a huge collection of the stuff...

The heaps of possessions turned into debris - making fragile mobiles that moved when the visitors came closer.



Last, there was a mysterious door with a sign Rhein in den Schlamm, literally Into the mud, though the usual spelling of Rein gets an extra h to make it the name of the river flowing outside the building. Behind the door, was a small room with a water bed and you could lie down on it and look up to see images of amoeba projected onto a mosquito net.



Film:

Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger from eiskellerberg.tv on Vimeo.



(The embedding doesn't seem to work - just follow the link.)

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