Nation shattered,
mountains and rivers stay;
The city is in spring, deep
in trees and weeds.
Lamenting the times,
flowers shed tears;
Regretting the parting,
birds cry in bleak heart.
Three months long
warming-fires burn on
towers;
A letter from home is worth
ten thousand gold.
The white hair thins from
fingering;
There’s hardly enough to hold a hairpin.

»Spring View«, 757 (High Tang Period) China, by Tu Fu. Found on Nobelprize.no, an internet site-specific project conceived and curated by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman.

»Mouse Cow Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake«, 2006 by Yangjiang Group.

»Rooftop Routine«, 2007 by Christian Jankowski.

»Verwandlung« is based on Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the entire text of the book is copied on one page. »Vase«; chinese porcelain and glue. By Kris Martin.

Le Truc Du Chinois, refer to (industrial) ”tableaux” you can generally find in chinese retaurants or in fast-foods. They are light boxes (originally for use in advertising – neon signs- and very often used in contemporary photography) with a mechanism that moves some filters between the light source and the back-lit picture. This gives a kinetic effect, providing the object with a kind of magic. These touched up photographs usually represent exotic landscapes : luxurious nature with azured skies and watered downs, sometimes with a water fall. By replacing these exotic scenes by council blocks, waste lands and other views of the outskirts, and by keeping only the waterfall as an element of the landscape, BBE recreates a utopian project: the “villes nouvelle” and their idyllic living environment.

Sauvageons, Bad Beuys Entertainment’s selfportrait, for which they used models.