A face is revealed. When will the refugee crisis and. This whole thing has an uncomfortable message the last movement of people will continue in the upcoming centuries the more than three beats and rhythms through africa this gentleman rapper is loving it. But first an artist to the rear is taking off this year you know slim bismarck confronts nature at its most extreme. What drives him. You use phone bismo descendant of otto von bismarck the first chancellor of the german empire like his famous for father is a man of conviction his work to moms to be noticed hes inspired by nature so far so german but be warned hes not a romantic. His series punishment gonnet International Attention who was hes being punished and why the artist doesnt see nature itself as the enemy but reverential attitude towards it and thats to choose he sets off to be whipped into shape. And not just nature he whipped the base of the statue of liberty and was arrested. And we meet bismark in his studio his face cam. What prompted me to whip the world was the fact that i have a deep seated loathing of nature. Thats not true is it. But what if i did but bit of eminent had. For an artist whose work seems steeped in anger he is surprisingly gentle he likes transgressing and he explores the border of ops and science at personal risk a few years ago he was struck by a bolt of lightning was sleeping in his car and turned the shock into oil. Took their breath of the god i tamed of lightning i made them strike when and where i wanted in a form of my choosing that was an important step for me lightning as often teased me and i had to get my own back. Up in addition often. In another piece of work he painted the landscape white and then over painted it in its original colors is that even allowed where is nature where result. Plays with our preconceived notions. With things like nature and environmental apocalypse he captures the zeitgeist. That really interests me how humans perceive the world and nature we think about it how much can we understand the. Untamable forces are hidden there is there an arrogance in our attitude toward it that. Be on mountains in vietnam it. He spray painted pigeons in venice to the consternation of Animal Rights campaigners they didnt like it but the art world loves his partial for artificially altering his surroundings. His image file greater produces photographic interventions manipulations that occur at the moment the photograph is taken but are only noticeable on the final image. A dub gracing an image of mal. The word no over the then pope administering mass mastery over the reproduced image a clever but profound prank. We catch up with bismarck again in the stead to share gala evolve spork where hes putting the final touches to a solo show his work a huge deal while structure a three d. Model of a storm surge in the irish sea the artist has become a rider of the storm. A bit how this isnt actually a classic sculpture its a technical sculpture of the type who captures the fleeting moment at a wave has this shape for the second before it hits the coast of ireland in the fall and how. You use fun bismarck is the twenty seventeen when a of the prestigious op prize of the city of spore. One installation features granite exploded into fragments that are numbered and measured. And then pieced back together like a puzzle. Yes i just sort of rock analysis by measuring the rock the way the planets are measured its an analogy for measuring the world and the method of it. His breakthrough project was a Live Performance on a rotating concrete bowl at the twenty fifteen basel the event went on for days he might have mixed feelings about the art world but hes definitely at home in it. With him because i feel like ive arrived in the art world. In a sense that ive come to terms with the fact that i developed my work and they are to qana me but in fact i would have liked to become a scientist. Glad he chose to create instead. Of to become a human wish granted to be easy to complain about the pressure when he can poke my head. If i didnt feel the pressure i would just hang around im actually a very lazy person as soon as i have a stress free day i stop functioning. In that case may old days be nothing but stressful. Now a timely book that has come out. In his latest novel exit west me describes how migration and displacement changing the. Most and how many present his readers with uncomfortable truths his message is not a reassuring one. Hes a keen observer of social upheaval in his country pakistan. And pakistan we see what occurs when you begin to say that well this is a homeland for muslims. It becomes a question of who is muslim enough you say youre muslim but do you pray do you drink are you friends with indians when you travel abroad do you support the military and you begin to very quickly find that no one is muslim and. In july twenty seventeen an islamist suicide bombing in lahore i mean its home town claimed twenty six lives exit west his latest novel begins in a city that remains nameless but that is also ravaged by bomb blasts. I mean studied law and literature in the u. S. And lived in london before he returned to her with his family. There he was astonished by the way everyone from his Close Friends to his hairdresser talked constantly about moving away. As maybe five Million People who are living european standard of living. Its the difference is that the average person sees no prospect of living in that way. Its not that in europe everybody is rich its in europe the average person has a decent life thats that then. I dont think thats going to stop i think that the Mass Movement of people will continue in the upcoming century just that its happened in the past centuries and so anyone who thinks that the migration crisis is over is taking incredibly short term view. Exit west media asks what the idea of nation means in todays globalized world do we need it to create a sense of home so as to put down roots. As protagonists nadia and saeed find their roots severed as militant extremists lay waste to their country when they leave the turmoil they feel both liberated and trapped their new life in the west brings its own challenges. Europe is built on the notion of universality and thats being tested because people from outside if your values are truly universal why do they not apply to us and europe in dealing with that challenge is dealing with an existential question. Most and mates novel reflects a world in existential crisis is protagonists flee their home country and mourn the lives that they could have lived there. They passed through magic doors to reach a new life in london there along with other refugees they are sectioned off in ghettos may describe cities militarized zone says dark and dystopian but the truth is their reality for refugees all over the world. It seems to me is that the only three choices we have we slaughter them. Or we work to prevent them from coming in the first place by improving society conditions over there or we make conditions better in our home countries so that when they do come. Theyll be dealt with we will all be better off i think were probably going to have a mixture of all three of those things hopefully the slaughter will be minimized. Seems as if the world is on the move and directionless europe depicted by most and me has a personality disorder one perhaps rooted in its open borders and a loss of national identity. The fear of devastation is a real fear. But i think the way around it is not to pretend that the Current Situation will last forever but at the same time we shouldnt minimize the fear which is real people do want what they have now to continue the sad truth is its unlikely to continue its going to have to change. The crisis is an opportunity opportunity is survival and survival in most and i mean its remarkable novel entails a journey from the unknown to the unknown. Now its time for. He has what we picked up this week. We know that you know but whats the language this is the German National anthem sung in ten african languages. Where. One. Sounded installation artist likes to play with german culture he came here from nigeria three years ago hes wishy thoughtful work is currently on display in. A made up subway map meets lagos. For a piece of video art abo shot africans enjoying themselves in bob badens famous casino swigging black beer specially brooch by the artist himself its flavored with chili and cherry a little african a little german. How does being foreign sound how does home taste. Good and new beginnings closing on letting go to cvs of dusk. What the dutch choreographer and i need a living became artistic director of heidelberg theatres Dance Company five years ago its performances are sold out the trademark is strong visuals teamed with weighty issues such as Gene Technology and the quest to create the perfect human. Meaning put heidelberg on the dance map dusk is her swan song here now shes leaving in search of new challenges her credo is never standstill neither personally nor professionally. A painting by all the mighty nice. And one by peter bonner. Two of the twentieth centurys leading artists. But t. C. A pioneer of modernism. If. For now a traditionalist always in the shadow of his famous contemporary and close friend. Both turned their backs on paris and. Headed to the south of france on you exhibit focuses less on their differences than on what links them and shows that much east was actually inspired by born. To news reclining on clades the similarities are impossible to have enough. To brilliant artists this morning common than you might think. The world is full of faces we look at them they look at us but what do they tell us and what do they hide and make us a bishop in dresden explores the nature of faces. Is it a landscape or is it a mirror of the soul how did it come to be you can touch it and feel it. But what makes our face a face. So mace only becomes a face when someone looks at it when they look at you and you can look at them thats when a face stops being a pair of eyes a nose and mouth and becomes a speaking surface with individual expressions that stands for who i am or what we can notice who i am my personality. Which actually only emerges through someone else to you. And. The exhibition at the German Hygiene Museum shows that wanting to read peoples faces isnt he told me. We want to see ourselves mirrored in others faces to discover who we are. But do our facial expressions truly express our feelings. At the end of the Nineteenth Century french neurologist tried to systematize expressions by electrically stimulating facial muscles later the psychologist paul ekman expanded the idea and produced an entire alphabet of ten. Townsend facial expressions to decode emotions sizes that are incredibly differentiated and hence not too useful on a daily basis in order to decode a face and theres lots of teaching material on the subject youd need about one hundred minutes to interpret one minute of video material this is. Because as that shows how complex facial expressions are and suggests that it might not be so simple to derive one thing from the other of im of my mentions. But even if we cant decipher emotions our face still remains our calling card our visage identifies us as a person todays surveillance cameras can create search profiles Software Companies are developing programs that leave out the personality and reduce our face to a sum of readable biometric data and thats precisely where we can outsmart the machines. Not told us title it if you call for parts of your face like when you wear a large dark pair of sunglasses that covers your eyes or put on a veil. Or wear a hoss that poses challenges for the software on how. To find the right person but they can also make mistakes on all the law and. In our face as our fingerprint thats the future soon computers telephones and Bank Accounts will only be accessible when we reveal our faces to a scanner that raises the question does my face then still belong to me how does me a gay get out the real question is did it ever belong to me as soon as i get an id. They already had passport picture sixty years ago or a soon as i begin to travel and was because it actually starts earlier on the streets as soon as people take pictures of what does my face belong to me thats a good question and not really. The twenty fourteen word of the year was selfie since then there has been a lot of debate about these images selfies are not portraits ideals of ourselves meant to last their testimony to momentary sensations to. We can immediately share with hundreds of others. The drest an exhibition also demonstrates that are to share our image with the world is not new either probably the most impressive story about this comes from the early days of photography Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave and had the bright idea to use the new medium to combat racism. He became the most photographed man in america. On death row for the full dance club but not explicitly mentioned photography we have texts written by him as a medium with emancipate or a potential site you can show yourself you can distribute your image and publicize your ideas that way that was very important to him. Because thats. What this exhibition goes beyond showing historical and modern possibilities whenever art plays a role the face becomes less intelligible for example when one artist experiments with facial recognition software. They manipulated program even registers faces in these random curves and bulges. And stuff im going to have artists keep proving to us that its not as easy as it seems there are always more facets more subtle variations ultimately our face and especially our expressions are not just a template you can simply read its much more complex than what can be measured and what we try to measure this falls with but its a lesson. And so our face remains a puzzle the exhibition may not have shown us how to decode it but rarely have we had a more thoughtful introduction to the mysteries behind our very own image. You know has no question but the german rap also tackle serious racism exploitation the banana with nigerian roots hes in africa with his new album. The german rap in rwandas capital kigali megalo is touring through africa with an album about africa how fitting devise a bustling artist when he planned the trip before we finished the album it took longer than expected but i had planned on releasing out in the summer because these are actually summer hits but politics and music business delayed things it came out before our trip and that worked because it meant that we could come over with the music and share it with the people yeah. The son of a nigerian. Megalo is touring with his producer ghanian stalin in east africa all the way from kenya to zimbabwe hes not just giving concerts hes also doing workshops with African Musicians organized by germanys got to institute which fosters cultural cooperation with countries across the globe rwanda is his second stop the day before he and his producer performed in the ugandan capital kampala each country is a new experience. Definitely really exciting and completely different than kampala for example which is considered a cultural hub and in one of the best cities in africa for going out to clubs. Its a bit different and golly at least thats my first impression. Outside about what else were going to see on this trip. Todays workshop is taking place in rwanda is only Music Boarding School a three hour drive from kigali. It was organized by Catalina Haim head of the go to institute in kigali. Megalo says the students questions and talks about the challenges he faces as a musician in germany his problems with record labels and also with his family the students respond with music. Then its megalo turn to demonstrate his skills and spontaneously work in some african rhythms. You didnt want to just power issues in and do our thing for the benefit of the local scene but i wanted it to be an exchange a collaboration between germany and the creation seen here in the workshop that megalo led in the music school and is a perfect example of that approach of music and. Im from perfect. But i didnt have so much freedom in the way they make music here and i have to admit i realize my own limitations when i had to rap to a very unfamiliar beat a traditional rwandan african type of music that is five but it wasnt the usual four for beat up so i really had to get beyond my rigid german thinking it was a lot of fun and a real eye opener. In the evening theres a concert in one of kiki. These poor neighborhoods the folks. 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