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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  July 23, 2019 7:45pm-8:01pm CEST

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concern for the environment. and in our series underground europe we visit an eerie stop to rainy and lake in southern switzerland. dividend or the turning point that's the term that germans used to refer to the fall of the berlin wall in 1909 an event that mend the end of east germany and clear the way for the country's reunification of artists who had found a way to co-exist with the communist system and opened a vast new world of possibilities at the same time however it up ended everything about their creative motivation and their lives well 30 years on an exhibition in light 6 looks at the art that was produced during this turbulent period. doris siegler doesn't see herself as someone who can see into the future but what the leipsic artist painted just a year before the fall of the wall did come to pass people peacefully demonstrating with candles crossing a border bridge as well as nothing it was spring 980 s.
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and i explain it to myself as a type of wish fantasy for change and also one of personal change. in this personally an awful mess. siegler is one of more than a 100 artists whose work documents the years up evil the collapse of the g.d.r. the full of the wall and reunification a few of the paintings do express euphoria but more commonly loss and even pain. as well. as a kind of amputation not from the g.d.r. but from friends colleagues from your life the life in the west was totally different so we came from the warm nest of state support into the free market soon after the fall of the war i went to frankfurt and that was like jumping into very cold water indeed codice was all the exhibitions curator says that even today east
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german artists works value and their own role in the peaceful revolution is both politically and artistically undervalued askance which this is important to remember and this was largely forgotten after 989 that in the eighty's it was a visual artist who made creative spaces in the studios in their workshops in the private gallery spaces were a group to course where it could establish itself a couple of incomes but most of the works here have never been on display in public before even experts in the field are amazed at what's on show. i don't know around 80 percent of the works here because they really did stay in the a tele a for. even doctors are over how i did not expect that these dormant pieces of art would see the light of day in my life time but today i realized that people just wanted to look to the future and didn't want to be reminded of the pain of the past it was a new type of person that was called for and somehow i just got left behind to the
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annoying mention to the 5 and 4 on doubt that to look at the now interest in these pieces has been sparked again says he is after the fall of communism there's a treasure trove of art to rediscover. well yet another treasure trove at the tate modern in london where sun has once again occupied the famous turbine hall 16 years after the last time he did it while the major retrospective of his work includes a ton of lego bricks a long corridor of dense fog and even a huge wall of reindeer moss from finland sun has been billed as a new model of artists who challenges how we interact with the world and now his fans can see the full range of his work. isn't to start people saw him in a museum 2000000 people kind to see it still remained
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a poetic experience. his monster of florence and the elements in 2008 he created waterfalls in new york a magical natural spectacle in the midst of the metropolis. his biggest show to date has just opened at the tate modern. what do we see in his own what's real what is perception and what is real about perception we are supposed to provide the answers ourselves. uncool shafi when i look at it i create the story in this picture i look at the picture and then i project my feelings my dreams my ideas my thoughts on to the picture and so it is sometimes a bit of work to go to the museum it's not like going to the supermarket and saying now i feel good we are here to question ourselves and to examine ourselves and to
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see ourselves within the context of the wider world to see. as many sources of inspiration the nature in iceland is one of the most important it's. hard for me high. and for me means the arctic landscape extremely slow and very fragile parents are icelandic as a child i was often out and about in nature my father was an artist and as a painter he was out in nature in a conventional manner and as a little child i went along on from it and he has fans can buy. he is still drawings which day and many of his ideas originate here the. water and lights and installation that creates a rainbow visible and invisible there or not there at all real but only in our perception.
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only assumes reindeer moss wall from 1904 day flora trad buildings everywhere. experience and participation knowledge that comes through perception musicality and movement families to experience all of what are the awesome that plays with this. break from the roof of his studio. here is his laboratory and his thing tank and machine he works together with 120 creative people craftsmen scientists and architects this is the only way to realize the large scale collaboration's with climate activists the un the world economic forum and partners in the private sector the tate modern provides a comprehensive overview of this multi communicator
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a particular finites the tunnel of fog disorienting spatial experience providing space for associations and encounters. suddenly it's like after. listening to you and doesn't tell you you have to do it one way or the other doesn't talk down to you it listens to you. and if we also listen it creates the attention that we need to apply to the world. and that's on in london until january 5th just in case you can manage to make the trip well speaking of paying attention to our world this week in our series underground europe we're looking into some of the wonders lurking below the surface here in europe and this time we're in switzerland where the southern town of sally are not boasts the largest subterranean like on the continent and it's
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a cool and it really do you feel place to duck into on a hot summer day. the rainbow trout are the only inhabitants of the biggest natural . in europe they were especially brought here to the lake under the small swiss with only a nod to maintain the water quality and also as an extra attraction for tourists. says tricks of the regularly guards visitors of crossed the like he's fascinated by the car. although we live in a world where we're trying to get closer to nature to return to the essential things of life this is a place where we can be more at one with nature away from the outside and the excitement of. the submarine you like is 300 metres long and 20 metres wide behind the rock formation is a case that stretches for a long but it's not accessible. the night projections alluded to an old legend
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which says the goals of saleyards would come here to see the faces of the future husbands reflected in the now the like attracts some $80000.00 visitors a year to see things have been strengthened to prevent peace. on the tourists. the case has a constant temperature of 15 degree celsius perfect for storing wine this one is from a local village not christoph between say he has a vineyard 70 metres above the like an ideal location. the locals here will always aware of this water filled cave but it was only in the 1940 s. that it became more accessible following. all of a sudden the sleepy village suddenly along the track to a long unfamiliar attention.
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every year around a dozen concerts are held in the cave tonight there are about $100.00 people in the audience on stage the 2 folk country and blues from. the musicians have toured the world but they've never played on such an unusual stage before. it's magical there's an incredible silence and i think that the audience feels it too so there was silence in some pieces and that changed our way of playing it left the spaces we could play with the silence as
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well and that was impressive. simplicity. and finally we can sign off without the news that the war lens has lost another musical legend as art neville passed away on monday at age 81 the celebrated funk musician behind the meters and the neville brothers he was nicknamed top of funk and he had major successes with his brothers in the late eighty's and ninety's with albums like yellow moon for brothers keeper and so we'll leave you with a track from that last one here it's the neville brothers performance of fallen rain all the best to you from berlin and by. talk to the. players the same.
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to calm. me. down some. yes some young missy music's a kind of culture walk. send me a phenomena the birth family model legal the the. w. . with him how to be good because others were lions if i had known that the boat would be about small i never would have gone on a trip to cuba i would not have put myself in my parish so not intentionally but it's a dream of the davis leader would. love one son because that one of the woods. to give them i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there much i'm going to.
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want to know their story and for my great spur fighting and reliable information for margaret's. robots are still in the development phase $0.05 but it's going to happen with a robot will humans and machines be able to peacefully co-exist or are we on the verge of a robot collapse. if we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads in the sand she seemed to think about what could go wrong then the face of this probably going to be the biggest mistake in history. artificial intelligence is now spreading through our society. will experts be able to agree on ethical guidelines or will this technology create deadly new autonomous weapon systems. cuts for robot collapse starts aug 14th on t w.
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t w news live from berlin a new leader for britain's conservative party a prime minister in waiting and boris johnson pledges to take the u.k. out of the european union. deliver brit's it good night the country and the beach. and that is going to. conservative party members overwhelmingly vote to place johnson at the head of their party setting up him up to become a do you case the next prime minister.

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