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2014

Aphex Twin – Syro

Aphex Twin - Syro Die einen halten ihn für die Reinkarnation Mozarts, beim who is who der Götterwelten wäre er Apollo. Bei Richard D. James ist wahrscheinlich aber einfach nur die Erdung kaputt.

Prison Landscapes

Alyse Endur’s book Prison Landscapes is a compilation of prison inmates presenting themselves in front of visiting room backdrops. »Such backdrops, often painted by talented inmates, are used within the prisons as portrait studios. As inmates and their visitors pose for photos in front of these idealized landscapes they pretend, for a brief moment, that they are someplace else. The photographs are given to these visitors as gifts to take home and remember the faces of their loved ones while they are incarcerated«, she writes.

State Correctional Institution, Houtzdale, Pennsylvania

State Correctional Institution, Houtzdale, Pennsylvania

Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Woodbourne, New York.

Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Woodbourne, New York.

Federal Correctional Institution II, Butner, North Carolina.

Federal Correctional Institution II, Butner, North Carolina.

Concierge

Karl Philips is a young Belgian artist for whom a mild kind of activism is inextricably linked to his work. With his performing art, he explores the distinctions between public and non-public, common- and underground, us and them. In 2010, he created a mobile »apartment« attached to a billboard. Concierge is a transparent foldable pop-up shelter for homeless people on the back of company’s product placement.

Concierge, Homeless shelter / temporary installation, mixed media (5 x 6.50 x 3.70 m), 2010

Concierge, Homeless shelter, temporary installation, mixed media (5 x 6.50 x 3.70 m), 2010

Concierge

Concierge