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That sounded like a really cool recommendation. I too consider myself a " poetry writer," though I just do it now as a hobby, and whenever ideas pop into my head(hehe), but "The Message" was definitely a cool poem to read.
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Hang in there, Tony. You and I both are gonna get through this.
Maybe these words aren't what you need at the moment, but I am certain that things will be better. A quote from a pretty decent TV show called Prison Break goes like this, "Just have a little faith." I think we all need a little faith now more than ever.
The Tanzanian museum’s managing director, Jan Küver, tells Artnet News that he welcomes the work within its collection, adding that it reverses “the historical relationship of looting culture and art.” He added that the project is a plea “for the return of human remains and cultural artifacts of the Hehe people that are still in custody of German museums.”
Asked about the police report filed by the theater, Küver acknowledged the work may need to be returned.“We know that it may be a delicate issue to receive such an important art piece,” he says. “But I believe it will have played its part” upon its return.
Scholar Adam Blackler, an expert on German colonialism, says that the video will “almost certainly generate more discussion about the controversies surrounding colonial artifacts [and] repatriation.”
“Germany’s long and violent colonial history in Africa stubbornly remains an under-discussed topic in both public and scholarly forums,” he tells Artnet News.
The artist collective, which includes around 20 people members, is known for making provocative political gestures. In 2019, the group covered the home of the famed German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to protest against writings of his that they say poeticizes rape.
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The work is basically a light bulb and a lemon. Their name is a parody of The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) that was a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt. A Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (Grundschule), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification of Education. Any student who attends a German elementary school can go to a Hauptschule or Gesamtschule, while students who want to attend a Realschule or Gymnasium need to have good marks in order to do so. thank you wikipedia. big huuuuug!
Okay, just have to add this amazing story (there is at the moment discussion about giving back stolen art to africa, there is also a man from Congo who visits museums and takes art, but in a way he get caught, he was in Nijmegen, now he is arrested in Paris...) article: These ‘Bad Beuys’ Stole an Artwork by Joseph Beuys From Germany—and Gave It to a Tanzanian Museum as a Comment on Colonial Plunder The brazen group of German artists have even created a video documenting their actions.
Kate Brown, October 23, 2020
A German artist collective stole a Joseph Beuys artwork from a Münster museum and gave it to an institution in Tanzania—and made a rollicking video about their stunt.
The collective, Frankfurter Hauptschule, say they stole Beuys’s Capri-Batterie as a comment on European imperialism and the forced transfer of objects from the African continent into German collections during the colonial era.
The work, which was taken from an exhibition at the Oberhausen City Theater, belongs to the LWL Museum of Art and Culture. It has since been handed over to the Museum Iringa Boma.
A goofy and satirical video, set to the Toto song “Africa,” records masked figures stealing the artwork and taking it, via plane, to Tanzania. Before the handover, the artists tour around in safari-clothing and perform a dance in the rain with the Beuys work before giving it up to the Museum Iringa Boma and representatives of the Hehe tribe. In a description accompanying the video, the artists write that, during German colonial rule in East African, “art objects, cultural assets and skulls of Hehe leaders were stolen from Iringa and brought to Germany.”
But Hermann Arnold, director of the LWL Museum, says he is “very dismayed” by the incident. “We expect the Oberhausen City Theater and the curators to treat the works of art in the exhibition responsibly and to work together in a sincere and transparent manner,” he told German press. The theater has filed a police report, and confirmed to German media that the work, which is a sculptural multiple and part of a 200-plus edition, was missing.
In an sternly worded email claiming responsibility, a spokesperson from Frankfurter Hauptschule denied that the act was criminal.
“You call that theft? You teach your children that stealing is evil and then you exhibit stolen goods, appropriated by force, in your museums,” the spokesperson said. “You say that the stolen items cannot be returned because people in Africa are barbarians, who are unable to properly handle them, while masses of non-inventoried looted art are molding away in the cellars of German museums.”
Dear Xzyzst, I am just looking at 8 copies of NPTL 1 zines, will send them tomorrow Monday is the plan. I hope this little message reaches you well and sound. Talking about sound, I am just listening to a best of 1989 lp and Mister Rose sings about Paradise city. Oh my! Beach Boys Kokomo, De la with me myself and I and Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance. Milli Vanilli? Roxette? Lambada? I remember I was on holiday at my godfathers place in a little village in France and they played Kaoma, Lambada and I thought, this must be some music for this small place, only to come home and it's a big hit in Germany too... It was mostly a hit in Europe, don't know if it reached your ears? Big hug! Ju
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That sounded like a really cool recommendation. I too consider myself a " poetry writer," though I just do it now as a hobby, and whenever ideas pop into my head(hehe), but "The Message" was definitely a cool poem to read.
Stay safe and healthy, my poetry guy.
Stay safe and healthy.
What a beautiful poem.
Stay safe and healthy, my guy.
Hang in there, Tony. You and I both are gonna get through this.
Maybe these words aren't what you need at the moment, but I am certain that things will be better. A quote from a pretty decent TV show called Prison Break goes like this, "Just have a little faith." I think we all need a little faith now more than ever.
Either way, stay safe, sane, and healthy, my guy.
Yea, I hear ya.
Stay safe and healthy.
Asked about the police report filed by the theater, Küver acknowledged the work may need to be returned.“We know that it may be a delicate issue to receive such an important art piece,” he says. “But I believe it will have played its part” upon its return.
Scholar Adam Blackler, an expert on German colonialism, says that the video will “almost certainly generate more discussion about the controversies surrounding colonial artifacts [and] repatriation.”
“Germany’s long and violent colonial history in Africa stubbornly remains an under-discussed topic in both public and scholarly forums,” he tells Artnet News.
The artist collective, which includes around 20 people members, is known for making provocative political gestures. In 2019, the group covered the home of the famed German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to protest against writings of his that they say poeticizes rape.
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The work is basically a light bulb and a lemon. Their name is a parody of The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) that was a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt.
A Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (Grundschule), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification of Education. Any student who attends a German elementary school can go to a Hauptschule or Gesamtschule, while students who want to attend a Realschule or Gymnasium need to have good marks in order to do so.
thank you wikipedia.
big huuuuug!
These ‘Bad Beuys’ Stole an Artwork by Joseph Beuys From Germany—and Gave It to a Tanzanian Museum as a Comment on Colonial Plunder
The brazen group of German artists have even created a video documenting their actions.
Kate Brown, October 23, 2020
A German artist collective stole a Joseph Beuys artwork from a Münster museum and gave it to an institution in Tanzania—and made a rollicking video about their stunt.
The collective, Frankfurter Hauptschule, say they stole Beuys’s Capri-Batterie as a comment on European imperialism and the forced transfer of objects from the African continent into German collections during the colonial era.
The work, which was taken from an exhibition at the Oberhausen City Theater, belongs to the LWL Museum of Art and Culture. It has since been handed over to the Museum Iringa Boma.
A goofy and satirical video, set to the Toto song “Africa,” records masked figures stealing the artwork and taking it, via plane, to Tanzania. Before the handover, the artists tour around in safari-clothing and perform a dance in the rain with the Beuys work before giving it up to the Museum Iringa Boma and representatives of the Hehe tribe.
In a description accompanying the video, the artists write that, during German colonial rule in East African, “art objects, cultural assets and skulls of Hehe leaders were stolen from Iringa and brought to Germany.”
But Hermann Arnold, director of the LWL Museum, says he is “very dismayed” by the incident.
“We expect the Oberhausen City Theater and the curators to treat the works of art in the exhibition responsibly and to work together in a sincere and transparent manner,” he told German press. The theater has filed a police report, and confirmed to German media that the work, which is a sculptural multiple and part of a 200-plus edition, was missing.
In an sternly worded email claiming responsibility, a spokesperson from Frankfurter Hauptschule denied that the act was criminal.
“You call that theft? You teach your children that stealing is evil and then you exhibit stolen goods, appropriated by force, in your museums,” the spokesperson said. “You say that the stolen items cannot be returned because people in Africa are barbarians, who are unable to properly handle them, while masses of non-inventoried looted art are molding away in the cellars of German museums.”
I am just looking at 8 copies of NPTL 1 zines, will send them tomorrow Monday is the plan. I hope this little message reaches you well and sound. Talking about sound, I am just listening to a best of 1989 lp and Mister Rose sings about Paradise city. Oh my! Beach Boys Kokomo, De la with me myself and I and Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance. Milli Vanilli? Roxette? Lambada? I remember I was on holiday at my godfathers place in a little village in France and they played Kaoma, Lambada and I thought, this must be some music for this small place, only to come home and it's a big hit in Germany too... It was mostly a hit in Europe, don't know if it reached your ears?
Big hug! Ju