these places in the world for smashing records. stick into more than church it's a treasure map for modern globe trotters discover some record breaking sites. also in book form. the. experience you're saving to see how to count the internet and just want to see them go. boys was a fascinating character as a person he was very quick sure to catch on the vehicle fully limited he didn't wear a fish in fact for nothing. i think his polarizes on pretty much every issue he looked at and that's why we're still arguing about him today.

i gave them interest groups like joseph boyce magical controversial charismatic with his expanded concept to fall out with his materials like felt and he turned to the 960 s. art scene on its head and set out to transform politics and society still don't know so it was nice to get as many valid could try as we don't need a vacuum i could go on our. car. loads the limited budget on. the long haul. i'll get it done. in any case the most famous german artist off his time on his 100th birthday we ask what inspired jersey boys and juicy inspired today.

looks like. the. artist and teacher was famed for his performances. once he covered his head in honey and gold leaf and guided a dead hare through his exhibition with viewers looking on from outside. profane prophetic or simply provocative. i know. this is an art work and it gets to the heart of many things such as the question how does conventional communication function and what happened in that communication is declined that's. always going the term social sculpture for his art his works involved creating structures spatially and in society he developed new forms of expression and a very specific language and consensus concept his artistic concept begins with

thought and his skull trope process is about making his thoughts visible and one way of making it visible is language. in the upcoming starting language exhibition at berlin's hamburger bahnhof explores the museum's boyce collection and the themes that are still relevant in the 21st century only slip tallow is a huge wedge of bat both animal and synthetic the work is about unfinished business it also raises concrete questions about spatial change about energetic and transformative processes. for voice everything was art the forming of simple sounds the physical act of speaking scribbling from countless lectures on the expanded concept of art at once hugely complex and strangely make the money its most tough like when you see a blackboard like this which says show your wounds show where you're vulnerable

what needs to be healed with needs to be improved wounds and healing are major themes for boys and the 1st question is who was wounded the victims the perpetrators. as adults these are questions i ask myself when i see these language stand up. one in 1921 just a voice was in the hitler youth and during world war 2 he was part of a bomber squadron food for thought is he deceiving us are there secrets in the air was he progressive or backward looking a reactionary or an innovator. he was suddenly growing up with national socialist ideology serving as a soldier in the war i'm not sure at that point particularly questioning any of that i think that he went through a usually fairly typical indoctrination at that time so i think that he made it

very clear when he came out of the war experience that it was essential for people to transform for society to transform and that he conceded a process that he chooses materials that are always changing like fashion or felt or i mean it's that's a fixed material but it's in gauging it in because it's metallic and i think that all of his works and get that sense of not being finished and that's where he's heading. for it is rough and it will also be. the no. boy spoke radically with convention. exploring the boundaries of the doable the space curator a current exhibition at stuttgart starts gallery makes this clear i'm going to. have to start to tell me he didn't want the small room he said it was because this work wouldn't fit but of course he felt that he should have a proper space here. and he is still the only living artist to have ever had

a whole room to himself here in the home. on the 100th anniversary of his birth voices unrestrained creative urge is taking center stage again. a dimension of i thought he was not only also one of the article it is easy to assume boyce wanted to get rid of entrenched concepts and authority he resonated with the younger generation his objection to admission requirements famously lost his teaching post at the just a door on an academy. by talking to the. voice was a champion of social change but he was also interested in religion and spirituality and in creating his own mythical persona. he wasn't always consistent. you have the boys he said women should have received an income for the work that they do at home so that's pretty progressive. and at the same time you say that.

this kind of patriarchal. man in the center of his on discourse always i think that it's as ambivalent on this question as it is on every question with voice and that's probably why he remains interesting as an artist i think he's polarizes on pretty much every issue you look at. even in 2021 voice comes across as larger than life. the k. 20 collection in dusseldorf juxtaposes his works with contemporary art works that question capitalism and the financial system. demanding alternatives and radical change. plays an important role. that includes films of several boys performances in 1974 he wrapped himself in belts and locked himself up in a new york gallery with

a live coyote and copies of the wall street journal. this time around the main interest is can we get anything out of his thought on democracy on the afraid i'm on the oppression on the environment and that's obviously the most severely question we face now the man in the hat was a pioneer of the archaeological movement in 1902 he proposed a plan to plant $7000.00 trees and cost $4.00 document to 7. he was rooting for a better future. for another movie i don't feel it's going to love all falls or sent some flights. it's that work people can most relate to people who have no idea about ocho about voice can immediately identify everything that they. starnes and set them up right with the tree and that's what makes voice so powerful. is that his ability to capture people's imaginations because that's

where you know that's what transformation comes in when people start to imagine that things could be different. voice demonstrated the power of art to change urban spaces sustainably his social sculptures can be found in new york and his street lighting project has become a model for artists and archivists all over the world including in mexico. where they are mexican artists had told him he's rethink things down on. projects the people's united nations provides a forum for discussion is this you political workshop is based on you and assemblies or to me people have their say not politicians or international diplomats should actually demand that they should behave more as women in the hopes

that maybe at some point something in the heads of white sheer. boyce's influence in the peoples united nations becomes visible that just such utopian moments. these are utopias of a different social reality and that's. which has made him one of the most popular contemporary artists in mexico. his most famous work is 40 soloists shuffles forgotten what the government support he called on residents to trade in guns for grocery vouchers in 2008 this led to 1527 guns being melted down and turned into shovels with trays used to plant the same number of trains. in place of each gun there is now a tree. i was intrigued by this

transmutation of the material. it's like a physical transformation of the metal. turning an agent of death into an agent of life in the river and he's continued the project well why eat you are like are going to hurt you more on future forest democrats like you boys he initiate processes and creates communities to talk on think about the power of change. go and visit every tree planting a vent is like a catalyst bringing together a community that talks about the problem of weapons. the little side of the atlanta trees are living monuments those rewards. to address ongoing violence in mexico they use has worked with this material again and again and his subsequent project to disarm he turned guns into musical instruments.

together with a team of musicians he created a mechanical orchestra but more ton unless he plays a few degenerated compositions. for an exhibition in basel switzerland in 2020. new music boxes made it free purposed punch from leading gun manufacturer this time in on the worldwide sales and distribution of guns i mean to me it are more that i wanted to show how the problem of violence begins in the factories where guns are produced. many of these guns are from countries that aren't gripped by violence. but a few members ago is a program and yet their products cause pain suffering and death across the globe

where the water will move the same token to move the whole world would bet. if it from an end to the arms and history. goes through a lot of momentum. to total heinous wants to use his role as an artist to change the welds. he designed his home studio in. mexico city's artists district doesn't open house in place of exchange. predict those one of the social sculpture projects i'm working on is the opening up of libraries . and i had to start with my own private library. i began by posting my books on instagram every day and people started asking to borrow them. so my personal collection turned into a public one i then managed to persuade other institutions like the cardio hill museum to loan out their books to. separate a spot on the readers from the. cato haynes would like to see light breeze

throughout the city and cannot sing find these are ready for neighbor because he'll hear me seem this project not jumps from anything out books but even less of a fact. if you if they're already available. the public can come to the museum and sign up like a library. pick one of the works take it home and live with it and their domestic surroundings have a mystical. this is one of his 1st exhibitions in mexico took place in the early 1996 when i. found it had an impact on the. voices and so inspired a crucial role for me especially his conviction that art has a use he's inspiring but more through his ideas than his works.

voice is idea ottis social sculpture pioneer not only in mexico he made a mock in asia as well. as. the japanese city tryout as the site of a boys' premier it's the 1st time he's installation curation staff has been exhibited here the other part includes here before and metre long poles wrapped in fails. to bring a masterpiece or wheels a boy's arm we're very late for the date there is a very. large. sum for $30.00 we need to be careful. of that. stuff is a metaphor for our cultural link the work goes back to performance by boys and the books as composer henning christianson in vienna in 1967 enacted with felt and

grand gestures were. idea is a utopian idea try to remove all the borders which border between east and west. as a. cold war and also. europe and asia is a metaphor for eurasia but also try to remove the border between you and me so where these border removed will become want her. chose have choices performances for decisive the influenced by flux artists above all by the korean artist nam june paik who later became the superstar of video art. at the nam june paik arts center and soul searching for clues to the connection between these 2 exceptional artists. says pixar voice folks can

even be explored from home using virtual reality suits. they've influenced each other together through the whole life from 961 since their 1st meeting on pier 986 when boys saw boys they had. very conscious in understanding their relationship in artistic reading or press and. there's treasure in the basement over 2000 analog videotapes hand labeled by now paid among them it's one of the last joint performances with boys would be 3 in tokyo in $1000.00 before on stage were 2 grand pianos but boys had other plans.

some clothes good music so i bet the burns and tradition are korean and japanese music's always making. screaming sound using his role. and song varies they already sound using the chalk on the block. like. in $99900.00 page created the boys hack installation paying homage to his late friend and his iconic headgear. rather than hero worship the gucci institute is attempting a critical. through our to initiative and workshops in seoul and tokyo among other places. the project boy song off is about turning the perspective around so to speak artists from any genre from east to west they take up voices ideas and

concepts just as he appropriated a cultural sphere in his work namely his concept of eurasia. one of these artists its d.j. saved from tokyo with his project sounds like eurasia the musician not only mixes stick it's a voice as voice but also clicks sounds from his own neighborhood he then uses all of these elements to create a vinyl record which he sends to other musicians in asia by post. for you also voice eurasia was not a real place it was a conceptual entity so for my project when the records travel arrive to new artist it's a physical object and it's something that they could feel and touch and it's a way for me to come out with these artists not just through the internet but through an actual object. when. they must there was a perk to cory's and her poise his trip to japan in $94.00 he went there to take part

in a whisky commercial he found. it enabled him to make a very secure in his in the booming japanese economy of the 1980 s. and earned him 650000 german marks boys the critic of capitalism needed the money for his 7000 oaks project in castle. during boyce's time in japan the advertising agency herder film team to accompany him. it was directed by photographer patrick am who managed to take a snapshot in the botanical garden during the shoot. today as renowned art photographer had to pay homage as a different for us boys and his criticism of excessive consumption and the environmental destruction of japan. he points to the wounds caused by the 2000 and nuclear disaster. there was a kind of froze over his way. through.

this well i'm not sure. that's it's not. obvious through a criminal it's very very quick. just boys may have been ahead of his time in the 1980 s. says the photographer but the themes he tackled such as environmental protection and a world without borders are more important today than ever. just a voice was also good at giving importance to seemingly useless thing. tony cracks greatest because on const is arguably this sculpture park which was transformed from an abandoned plot of land and. where the british artist has lived for some time now. boyce he believes that art is always political.

in a world where everything is becoming impoverished and weaker and destroyed scotcher is one of the only ways of producing new forms new language new ideas new emotions and i think that's a very very important role you know while the industry is dead killing everything around us we as a species were able to destroy ourselves but i think that. as a possibility of opening up the sculpture park is a space of energetic exchange. crags own works enter a dialogue with the works of other artists. currently those of joseph boyce. voice and a lot of artists of that generation they were the 1st ones to talk about the environment they were the 1st ones to really start to talk about our relationship to nature they were the 1st ones to talk about our acceptance of political systems

of of ideas of hierarchy and so when you look at art today and you see how many platforms for protest have opened up. artists like voice set into motion is more relevant than ever the exhibition perpetual motion comprises small works that make for big art replete with symbolism like the rose for democracy or. the idea is very simple whereas acid then there has to be a chemical reaction there has to be exchange of electrons could be a source of power and such but this is the images so john was critical study patted physical the absurdity of science the apparent absurdity of science the shift leaves the simplicity of the way we used diets compared to the reality of how complex things are. voices complex thoughts compacted into little sculptures

raise more questions than they answer. indeed there's not so much to see but what the observer is left with is what's known as one's own reflection you find out what you think what you have in your head and points use that a great deal in the only obviously the starting point the journey you have to make yourself you know who who doesn't think as that has to go says works emanate positive energy according to tony crack. and all of the convoluted thoughts often conceal a great deal of humor. at what i remember really is laughter he says is a laugh like almost see all of his t. that everything is a soon as you start to deal with never been there before then you start to a daily little bit with the absurd with your reaction is. it is hysterical is to laugh is to become involved there are all sorts of things

including love. tony cracked 1st met voice in london in 1972. first time actually seeing him in the white house he stood there with his face a jacket on and his hat and the curious curious figure and not very good english i have to say people came off the street into the building in the. don't you know you're doing here. country you know. boys just had a fantastic way of. you could really get hold of people and get it didn't wear fish in fact for nothing you know you really start to engage them on a very human level. so you don't have to understand it all to get voice just be creative and follow your intuition. for this it is not supposed to be useful to. come close to get the. feel.

good kind of power in what you did he was a scout he was an octave you know a poet and so that's really what is left.

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