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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  May 8, 2021 9:15am-9:31am CEST

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on buying young by savers but returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than writing advice as no i wanted to reach out to those women back home who had bones by then 2004 shows and informed of old dead basic rights my name is the about of people and they were eating. on this edition of arts and culture and look at how well war 2 anti nazi activist sophie schol might have used instagram had she being a young woman today also coming up. the legacy of another revolutionary 100 years since his birth we'll find out why groundbreaking conceptual artist joseph
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boyce is still making waves. and the work of a serbian sculptor who transforms weapons of war into instruments of communication and harmony. welcome to the show 100 years after her birth and almost 80 since i death sophie show remains a powerful symbol of peaceful resistance against tyranny in 1943 the student who was executed for her brave attempts to resist the nazi dictatorship she was just 21 shoulder documented her short life using diaries and letters imagine what she could have done today with instagram that was the idea that inspired a new project in germany launched to mark her 13 we. heard just a set of mines and at stanford lester doesn't talk. in the mass. manchester in there so companies need not need to get up. as an avatar in the
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mentioned city and a construct and. a side to the film shoot at the end of march depicting sophie shows a rival in munich her brother and sister it's a pick her up actress luna brady is $21.00 the same age as sophie short in the last year of her life. this is the cause either so it's up to it's a great honor to play so for sure of course there's a certain amount of pressure because you want to do justice to this person is what's great was so sure is that there are quite a few biographies her own diaries and especially the correspondence between her and fritz it's such a gift because it lets you get right inside her head on the team has also by use the instagram story on so. she shows letters to her fiance and other historical sources everything is as authentic as possible the narrative is packaged as
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a multimedia corage with new installments on instagram every day illustrations photos reenacted scenes video clips but only what sophie herself might have seen. the pharmacy form gives us the opportunity to get snow sophie shell on a much more personal level to relate what made up her everyday life with not just telling the classic sophie short story that everybody knows and learn. to make it to illustrate a show scenes from the war but also more magical moments and the dreams of sophie shawl. may 9th 1942 sophie's birthday filming yourself at the same time is a challenge. have to hold the camera yourself you have the monologues but it's also exciting because you have to capture scenes in a completely different way you have the vertical format and you have to work it out with several people so every scene is like a little package that you open up and you see what comes out and.
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the birthday party and other scenes depict emotional everyday moments feelings that young instagram users may be able to identify with. cloud sure sophie was is our heroine our resistance fighter but she's also a very normal multi-faceted woman with insecurities the whole journey up to this point was a huge struggle also with herself. for 10 months the team will post daily moments from sophie's life and from everyday life in 942 on instagram and. maybe with the things we generate here we can also inspire people to take a. i look at what's happening in our world today because the topics that were relevant then are still relevant more than ever the sad thing is we still have to
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talk about the role of women racism not seize. been sophie shaw is the name of the channel aimed at today's instagram uses. for them to. becomes an activist and is arrested at the university while handing out leaflets she holds on to her convictions until her execution. is good and has a wonderful quote from sophie schol have i been training so far sometimes maybe but now i've woken up so this waking up that something we all may be need to do. another famous german he would have celebrated his 100th birthday this may his conception artist. his album card sculpture and particularly his performance art was seen as well in its time as was the man himself both continue to inspire
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artists today in boise 17 a year his legacy has inspired literally dozens of exhibitions across germany. just of course continues to fascinate and polarize 35 years after his death the artist in teacher was famed for his performances. once he covered his head in honey and gold and got a dead hand through his exhibition with us looking on from the outside profane prophetic or simply provocative. this is not working against the heart of many things such as the question how does conventional communication. function and what happens when that communication is to climb. at.
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the upcoming starting from language exhibition at barron's hamburger bahnhof explores the ways that still relevant in the 21st century. is a huge way to fact both animal and synthetic the work is about unfinished raising questions about spatial change and formation was an important. $49.00 to $21.00 joseph boyce was in the hitler youth and during world war 2 he was part of a bomber squadron does he have something to hide was he really progressive or perhaps backward looking his experience in the war let him to believe that people and society had to change and that this was a process he often chose materials that change like facts or felt. the space curator a current exhibition at stuttgart darts gallery makes this clear. on
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the 100th anniversary of his birth boyce's unrestrained creative urge is taking center stage again boyce was anti or farsi and resonated with the younger generation is objection to admission requirements for amos lee lost in his teaching post at the arts academy. i don't have a. voice was a champion of social change but he was also interested in religion and spirituality and in creating his own mythical person you know he wasn't always consistent and. you have the boys who have. come for the work that they do at home so that's pretty progressive. and at the same time. that this kind of patriarch. in the center of discourse always i think it's as
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ambivalent on this question as it is on every question with choice and that's probably why i remain interesting as an artist i think it's polarizes on pretty much every issue you look at. even in 2021 voice comes across as larger than life the current sick collection of juxtaposes his works with contemporary art works that question capitalism and the financial system demanding alternatives. and radical change. the environment plays an important role to. films of several voice performances in 1984 he wrapped himself in and locked himself up in a new york gallery with a life. and copies of the wall street journal. the man in the hat was a pioneer of the ecological movement in 1902 he proposed
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a plan to plant 7000 oak trees in castle for document to 7 he was rooting for a better future history planting project has become a model for artists and activists all over the world. and there's more about joseph boyce and the artists he inspired on this are today's edition of culture program $21.00. another sculptor whose work blurs the lines between art and life is nicholas sera his rule materials were once instruments of division and hate but much sirrah gives them a new life as musical instruments he thought is the discarded army kit from junkyards across his native serbia some of the weapons he transforms date back to the ethnic conflicts that ravaged the region during his lifetime. dystopian military junkyard serves as a stark reminder of the plot people can watch the bridge some 20 years ago.
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today some of this on the equipment has been repurposed room. transformed into musical instruments by sculptor an economic slowdown that part of his from noise to sound project. gets to work on a salvation army in his studio novi sad service 2nd largest city usually combines 2 objects to create one musical instrument an elaborate process that takes months he takes inspiration from traditional balcony instruments to build this kind of instrument pink iow the helmet 1st off all i clean the helmet and i put it together like this they can sound things from this gun and put the string there after that i call the musicians. try
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to play on this instrument we talk about what we should do to get a better sound of course i want to send a message to make music not bore but it's not so simple i actually want to show people that you can think about stuff differently you know about war about everything about love. and now new clues transforming military kit into musical instruments. is truly for instance it's made from a canister in a portable rocket launcher this guitar from an automatic rifle and a helmet this wind instrument for mind parts and this because an instrument from a canister and yet another rocket launcher. i think it's a very interesting project. for me is a question of it's very matter of cool objects from your
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surroundings nic i'm not 0 i would like a small orchestra like this to tell all the countries that were once caught up in the deadly yugoslav was to encourage everyone to make music not school. what a great idea there's more on all stories on our web site you don't comb sas culture and please join us again next time. on the road with our superheroes my mission is clear. good and to me cause holy shit explore germany. they don't even have a church everything out there's a lot going on in our local. germany tried and tested you.
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