BATTLE OF THE WORLDS
"BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is genuinely playable, shareable between players, and in fact only becomes complete when exhibition visitors actually play it. The sculpture turns into a performance. It is loud, it shouts, it trash-talks. BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is a sculpture in front of which the audience waves their hands in the air!
In BATTLE OF THE WORLDS the player chooses sides between a team Jesus or a team of Hindu gods. The ball is a globe.
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is a postmodern provocation.
A cheap, blasphemously modded bar-entertainment machine has invaded high culture, armed with swastika stickers, laughter, and endless POP references.
The idea for the setting came from Monty Python’s sketch “The Philosophers’ Football Match”, in which German and Greek philosophers play football, famous for its absurd characters (Socrates, Nietzsche, Hegel…) who play with philosophical concepts instead of a ball, culminating in nonsensical explanations and the players “thinking” intensely in the middle of the match.
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is the match between high and low culture — and high culture always loses."
In BATTLE OF THE WORLDS the player chooses sides between a team Jesus or a team of Hindu gods. The ball is a globe.
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is a postmodern provocation.
A cheap, blasphemously modded bar-entertainment machine has invaded high culture, armed with swastika stickers, laughter, and endless POP references.
The idea for the setting came from Monty Python’s sketch “The Philosophers’ Football Match”, in which German and Greek philosophers play football, famous for its absurd characters (Socrates, Nietzsche, Hegel…) who play with philosophical concepts instead of a ball, culminating in nonsensical explanations and the players “thinking” intensely in the middle of the match.
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is the match between high and low culture — and high culture always loses."
MIXED MEDIA
88 X 136 X 112 CM
2000