May
29
2010
Dennis Hopper On Art
May
28
2010
Blumen for Peter Noever
As South Korea and the world tries to sort the best response to the latest provocations from North Korea, an exhibition of contemporary ‘official’ art of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of North Korea) opened at the MAK (the Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna, with a rather dodgy title. “Flowers ...
May
26
2010
Prune’s Procreative Dinner in Geneva
From Prune:
The Procreative Dinner is based on the idea of a child «à la carte», and creates a reflection about how the new techniques of assisted procreation lead us to an artificial evolution of the human being through selection.
The artist associates her art to a chef étoilé and a specialized scientist and designs a meal around a «clinical process» – which moved through all stages of child conception, from in-vitro fertilization to choosing the sex of the child.
During this dinner, spectator becomes an integral part of the happening. He is ‘procreative’ because he creates, from cocktail to dessert and following step by step an assisted conception, his “perfect child”.
The first Procreative Dinner took place in June 2009 in Paris with the wellknown biologist Jacques Testart and the culinary designer Julie Rothhahn."