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Do Ho Suh

"In the early years of his study in the United States, Suh gave form to his experience of dramatic 'spatial' change due to the difference in physical distance between Seoul and the United States and to the uncomfortable and unfamiliar sensations and feelings caused by such change on the basis of the idea of 'spatial migration' and 'displacement of space'. (...) This work is comprised of a life-size (12 meters in height, 15 meters in width) replica of the three-story town house at Providence, Rhode Island, which was the artist's first residence where he lived as a student in the United States in 1991 and 'Seoul Home,' a reproduction of his family's traditional-style Korean house in Seoul, hanging in the middle of the former. (...) Enveloped by the entanglement between the inside and the outside and between the private space and the public one, the viewers are fully exposed to the dizzy ambience of the surreal space where the East and the West, the past and the present and the real and the imaginary are intricately interwoven with each other."

Source

If Only

Rune Olsen

Tape it up

Monika Grzymala

Hypnosis

Please stand in front of one of the skulls.
Only one person for every skull.
Never more than one person for every skull.
Please relax without losing your straight posture.
Your arms are gently hanging from your shoulders.
You feel your feet slightly touching the ground.
You are breathing slowly in and out.
It is easy for you to breath in and out.
You are enjoying breathing in and out.
With every breath you take, you feel more and more calm.
You are standing totally relaxed in front of your skull.
It is nice to stand in front of your skull.
Look at the skull slowly turning in front of you.
Look at its form, its color, its texture.
Enjoy the smooth turning of your skull.
Think about the vanity of life.
It is natural to think about the vanity of life.
Think about the inevitability of death.
It is natural to think about the inevitability of death.
You do not feel frightened.
You feel calm and joyful.
You feel calm and joyful about the idea of death.
You think about the utterly meaninglessness of your life.
You feel the desire of not wanting to live anymore.
You want to be free from every thought and feeling.
You understand now that being free is being free from life.
You never felt more calmness than in this very moment.
You want this very moment to last forever.
Now listen.
Now listen very carefully.
I will count down from ten to zero.
When I reach zero, your heart will stop beating
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Hypnosis

Christian Lemmerz

Saló

Saló (2010)

"In the looming shadows of Krausesvej 3, guests were escorted into the Villa by the brutish charm of the Fuckers. The sinister decadence of Villa Salò was at once apparent: a bruised and naked child playing nervously on the carpet under the watchful glare of an elegant Madame, then wails of suffering followed by the raucous laughter of gentlemen in a distant chamber. Guests arrived by the invitation of four generous hosts, the Masters – the founding members of The Black Libertine Society. By accepting their offer of hospitality, guests witnessed - and in rare cases, joined the Masters’ adventures into the dark passions of debauchery, which seemingly had no bounds. In a scathing and visceral interpretation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film, Salò was a devastating representation of what transpires when power is manipulated, and the value of human life is converted into nothingness."

- SIGNA