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w.'s crime fighters are back to africa's most successful radio drama series continues going up all the decisions are available online to get more so you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. to mean no. experience or show even just the id card. you just want to see them go. boys was a fascinating character as a person he was very quick sure to capture all the people fully within he didn't wear a fish effect for nothing. i think is polarizes on pretty much every issue you know tragic and that's why we're still arguing about him today. if.
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i gave the names of the students who choose if calling this magical controversial charismatic. with his expanded concept of thought and with his materials like felt and facts he turned to the 960 s. art scene on its head and set out to transform politics and society still doubting him so it was nice that he does man of value could transmit omega vacuum i could go on are something are. close to home and they are. all belong. to my god the god. just at a profit in any case the most famous german artist of his time on his 100th birthday we ask what inspired joseph boyce and judas he inspired today.
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it is hard. to. see 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 happens 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 conceptions concept his artistic concept begins with
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thought and his skull trial process is about making his thoughts visible and one way of making it possible is language. 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 pay the money it's must be tough like when you see a blackboard like this which says show your wounds show where you're vulnerable
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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 when the victims the perpetrators. these are questions i ask myself when i see these language stand up. one in 1921 joseph boyce 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 and a base. 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 and he had thought i think that he went through usually fairly typical indoctrination at that
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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 flash 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. already it's remarkable. the number of. boys broken radically with convention. exploring the boundaries of the doable the space curator a current exhibition at stuttgart stultz gallery makes this clear oh i didn't have to the 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
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a whole room to himself here in the home to come on the 100th anniversary of his birth voices unrestrained creative urge is taking center stage again. and a mention of i don't know if you saw on the almost night of the article it is if you want your own voice wanted to get rid of the trench concepts and authority he resonated with the younger generation his objection to admission requirements famously lost his teaching post at the dusseldorf on academy. by 2 and 2 of the. voice was a champion of social change but he was also interested in religion and spirituality and creating his own mythical persona. he wasn't always consistent to have the boys he said women should have and received an income for the work that they do at home so that's pretty progressive. and at the same time you say that.
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this kind of patriarchal. man in the center of his i'm just cos always i think 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
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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 thoughts on democracy on freedom on oppression on the environment and that's obviously the most revealing 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 for document to $7.00. he was rooting for a better future. for another movie i don't. want to let go of all this you can score sent some flights but. it's the work people can most relate to people who have no idea about her about voice can immediately identify everything that they move towards starnes and set them up right with the tray and that's what makes voice such powerful. is that his ability to capture people's
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imaginations because that's where you know that's what where transformation comes in is when people start to imagine that things could be different. voice demonstrate that the power of art to change urban spaces sustainably his social sculptures can be found in new york and his tree planting project has become a model for artists and artists all over the world including in mexico. where you call. mexican artists had told hey he's we think things down in the utahns. his 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 all international diplomats should actually demand that they should pay more as women in the hopes
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that maybe at some point something in their heads white sheer. 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 still a us shovels for. with the government support he called on residents to trade in darkness for grocery vouches in 2008 this led to 1527 guns be melted down and turned into shovels which pays used to plant the same number of trains. in place of each gun there is now a tree. i was intrigued by this
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transmutation of the material. it's like a visible transformation of the metal. turning an agent of death into an agent of life and with everyone and he's continued the project well why eat you are going to hurt. forrest gump or the like is it boys he initiate processes and creates communities to talk on think about the power of change. but not every tree planting event is like a catalyst bringing together a community that talks about the problem of weapons. and the atlanta trees are living monuments those rewards. to address ongoing violence in mexico caves has worked with this material again and again and his subsequent project disarm he turned into musical instruments.
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together with a team of musicians he created a mechanical orchestra that tom leslie plays to generated compositions. for an exhibition in basel switzerland in 2020. 6 boxes made it free to punch from leading gun manufacturers this time in on the worldwide sales and distribution of guns i mean to me. 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. to go is a broken and yet their products cause pain suffering and death across the globe
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where the water will move soon they're going to move the whole world would ban. if it from an end to the arms and history. through a lot of momentum. wants to use his role as an artist to change the weld. he designed his hands studio in. mexico city's artists district as an open house in place of exchange. predict 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 human museum to loan out their books to. separate us that i'm not really. a total
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haney's would like to see like greece throughout the city and cannot sing find these are ready for nobody can feel here in the scheme this project no jumps from the ring out books but even in place of a box. a few of them already available. the public can come to the museum and sign up like a library of. pick one of the works take it home and live with it and their domestic surroundings. there were mystical. this is one of his 1st exhibitions in mexico and took place in the early 1990. and it's had an impact on patron. voices and tones played a crucial role for me especially his conviction that art has a use he's inspiring but more through his ideas that his works.
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voices idea of artists social sculpture made him a pioneer not only in mexico he made a mob can help. the japanese city try out as the site of a boy's premier it's the 1st time he's installation curation staff has been exhibited here burke includes nearly 40 meter long poles wrapped in felt. to bring a group. of boys who are really very like. they 3 is a very. large. area as we need to be careful. to expiate there are some so i'm going to. stop is a metaphor for our cultural link the work goes back to performance by boys and the books as composer heading christianson in vienna in 1967 and acted with felt fact
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and grand gestures were. idea is a utopian idea to try to remove all the borders. between east on the west. as it at the time of they were made because of cold war and also the. europe of asia is a metaphor for your radio but also try to remove the border between you and me so when these border removed we become want her chose have choices performances for decisive the influenced by flex artists above all by the korean artist nam to pick who later became the superstar of video art. i command you to pick art center and soul searching for clues to the connection between these 2 exceptional artists. pixar voice folks can even be
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explored from home using virtual reality suits. they've influenced each other together through the whole life from 961 since their 1st meeting on 3rd 986 when boys saw boys they had. very conscious in understanding their relationship in an artistic critique or press and. there is treasure in the basement over 2000 analog videotapes handily both going to have to pick among them it's one of the last joint performances with boys would be 3 in tokyo in 1000 before on stage were 2 grand pianos the boys had other plans.
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for the. night some clothes could mutate so that should lead to a bath of burns and traditional korean and japanese music it's always making. screaming sound using his throat. and some berries they already sound using the chalk on the left. in $199900.00 page created the boys hacked installation paying homage to be slaked friend and his iconic headgear. rather than hero worship the gucci institute is attempting a critical push pull through are to michoud and workshops in seoul and tokyo among other places. the project boys 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
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concepts just as he appropriated a cultural sphere in his work namely his concept of eurasia. one of these artists is from tokyo where his project sounds of eurasia 6 the musician not only makes a step it's a voice is fois 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 of boys eurasia was not a real place it was a conceptual entity so for my project when the records travel arrived to new artists that the for the quadrant and that's something that they could feel and touch and it's a way for me to connect with these artists through not just through the internet but through an actual object. when. they must there was a perk to cory's and her point is this trip to japan in $904.00 he went there to take part in
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a whisky commercial he found. it enabled him to make various appearances 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 i take a hammer who managed to take a snapshot of boys in the botanical garden during the shoot. today as renowned art photographer had to pay homage as a different few of the boys in his criticism of excessive consumption and the environmental destruction of japan. he points to the wounds caused by the 2004 nuclear disaster. there was a kind of throws of his walk. through.
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to this well i'm not sure. that it's not. obvious through opinion well it's very very quick. just that boys may have been ahead of his time in the 1980 s. says the photographer but the themes that he tackled such as environmental protection and a world without borders are more important today than ever. boyce was also good at giving importance to seemingly useless thing. tony cracks greatest because on construct is arguably this sculpture park which was transformed from an abandoned plot of land to. where the british artist has lived for some time now. boyce he believes that art is always political.
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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's death killing everything around us we as a species we would destroy ourselves but i think that. suppose ability 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
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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 more prepared. 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 pattern physical the absurdity of science the apparent absurdity of science the shift leads the simplicity of the way we use dion's compared to the reality of how complex things are. voices complex thoughts compacted into little sculptures
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raise more questions than they answer. indeed there's not so much to see but what the observer is left with is what owns one's own reflection you find out what you think what you have in your head and poise 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. as works and many positive energy according to tony crack. and all of the convoluted thoughts often conceal a great deal of humor. that what i remember is laughter he says is a laugh like almost see all of these t. that everything is a soon as you start to deal with never been there before then you start to daily little bit with the absurd with your reaction is. yeah it is hysterical just to laugh is to become involved in the thing there are all sorts of
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things including love. tony cracked 1st met voice in london in 1972. actually seeing him in the white house he stood there with his fish a jacket on and his hat and the curious curious figure and not very good english i have to say the people came off the street into the building and they said you were german are you who are you doing here you pawned our country you know. boys just had a fantastic way of he could really get hold of people and pull them in he 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 at all to get voice just be creative and follow your intuition. for this it is not supposed to be useful to. come to us to give the.
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