Last week a poor town in the rural P.P.Queen Land had its first art scandal. The artist Caren Dinges made an installation in public space, the artwork had the mayors blessing, everything seemed to be fine. The topic of the work was death and to show "death" in public space, on a place where people are usually not confronted with their own finiteness. Some of the cute inhabitants of the tiny town couldn´t cope with the fact that everything has its end sometime, so they went to the mayor and wanted him to stop this scandalous happening. The real scandal is that he did what a few narrow minded asked him to. But now after 250 people gave their vote for freedom of art in G., everything is almost o.k. again and the installation will be there for a week instead of two months. Very interesting story in the 21st century and somehow really sweet.
If you want to know more about it, this is a link to an article in german
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