Ethnic Food Studies Part 1

Menu in P.P.land

For a stranger the eating habits of the people in P.P.Queenland are a little peculiar in some cases. They like to eat brain, blood sausage and liver. Another traditional meal seems to be crate pork.

P.P. has the feeling that the restaurant chefs also know very well how to whet the guests appetite for the tasty dishes.

Ethnic Studies Part 3

Upper Austrian Folk Art

Birthday installation found in P.P. land. A turnable cubus made for a 40 year old Austrian standing on the roadside.

Ethnic Studies Part 2

Upper Austrian Folk Art

While the Queen took her walk through her royal territory today, she passed by a nice place close to her residence. A guy named Hansi is sitting there under a tree. The street sign tells us his age and it seems that he is ready to go to work, well armed with working gloves, a hammer and a tool box wearing his blue working overall. P.P. said:"Happy birthday Hansi, my dear subject. Nice to meet you." But Hansi was just speechless face to face with his Queen.

Another example of the strange birthday traditions in P.P.Queenland.

Andrzej Galazka

Andrzej Galazka, Simple Story 004, Photography

Andrzej Galazka, Simple Story 008, Photography

Andrzej Galazka is a photographer from Warszawa , Poland

About his Simple Story Series he says:

In "simple story" I try to express myself, to say something about my oridinary days, small pieces of my life. Every day is the most important day.

Ethnic Studies Part 1

Upper Austrian Folk Art

The people in the Queen´s country are good communicators but they are also creative. It´s the custom around here to let everybody know that there´s a birthday boy or girl. Relatives or friends make objects or dolls/puppets, sometimes installations and put them in front of the birthday person´s house. It is a surprise and present for the person, but can also be a critical humorous statement about the person, the person´s job, hobby, passion and it is used as a sign for everybody passing by.

The first association that came to P.P.´s mind was the figural fantasy coffins in Ghana, Afrika.

In the beginning of the 1950s Ata Owoo (1904 –1976) , a talented carpenter in Ghana, started with the idea and design of a coffin with the shape and colour of an eagle for a chief. The first carpenter who realized the ideas was the journeyman of Ata Owoo, Kane Kwei (1922-1992). Kane Kwei created a hole new funeral culture, funeral art. For his grandmother who died, he made a coffin that looked like an airplane, because it was the grandmother´s biggest wish to go by plane.

Talking Vegetable

The people of P.P.Queens people have a high ability to communicate, but not only the humans, even the salad trees sometimes like to have a nice little chat. P.P. is enthusiastic about their way of gesturing and it seems to her that they put their heads together. In the Queen´s foggy garden you can hear the soft whisper of the beautiful royal salad trees.

Santiago Sierra

THE ANARCHISTS, Santiago Sierra
Volume. Rome, Italy. December 25th, 2006
At 00.00, on December 25th, a group of 8 militant anarchists was convoked to listen to the Pope's Mass.
Each one wore a black jute capirote, receiving 100 € for it.

Santiago Sierra (born 1966) Sierra's work reflects his views on capitlism, labor, and exploitation. For instance, he paid a group of workers to move a heavy rock from a point A to a point B and vice versa. On another occasion he paid drug-addicted prostitutes from Brasil their drug of choice to let them have a line tattooed across their backs. He also caused controversy by covering ten Iraqi immigrants in insulating polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden. Another of his well known projects is a room of mud in Hanover,Germany, commemorating the job-creation measure origin of the Maschsee.
In 2006, he provoked controversy with his installation "245 cubic metres", a gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in Pulheim, Germany.

http://www.santiago-sierra.com/