A kind of. Stay with us to hear from the artist himself. Also coming out its 20 years since eric was somebody from i can tell you ill give you amazed at the sydney olympics gaining a thing in the slowest olympic swimmer. I could you know your welcome to the program why are we facing so many natural disasters how auctions on the environment contributed to the questions difficult to answer but not for 7 seeds the old South African poet and sculptor. Hes using his extraordinary sculpture as makes with some spirituality to help protect the environment his artwork made from animal bones is meant to encourage the site. To fight against actions that damage nature and the environment. This is not unusual in art and it also has a message 78 year old South African sculpture professor and poet peter cantu really created 45. He called the exhibition in mississippi any in the local zulu language translated into english this means return to the source for the artist sings have never seemed more urgent. We have to prepare ourselves for more kind of a pandemic simply because with disrespect of nature we are surrounded nature with plastic only sleeps ever the carry so the whole is of greed the issues of. The other ones that are merely led us to where we are now and yet as an African People our poll reps and everybody else tells us about how we must. Cully. The atis has been working for more than 40 years of use material he scavengers fun scrape yet off with bare bones as he sent over the last 3 years by creating this sole coronavirus Restrictions Mean the public has not yet been able to see their artworks but every sculpture can be viewed virtually together with supplementary audio that to leave a record it is specially for each piece. What this exhibition has done its challenge what curating is because for a long time we all think with thought about creating has been traditional has been going to space and seen our 2 etc and particular by these brains had to challenge the art and the art industry even how we speak of art and how art speaks to us critic and tool is an expert on african indigenous knowledge systems. And throwing down the bones. In order to divine the stage of the nation in this state of the universe listed of our environment the state of our own Mental Health as to what exactly happens lets for every visitor to decide by himself whether looking at the sky plus were actually. Physically during a planned 2 of the exhibition through several cells african museums scheduled for 2021. The genius artist a pretty cotton to lead joins us from Johannesburg South africa and thanks for your time so your artwork is warning humans to return to the source or be faced with more pandemics now that sounds a bit scary what and how do you me and wanted me. To reach serious human beings to. Where we. Are with. New mothers d including them. So you know that we really can create really serious. Imbalance. You imagine yourself. Killing animals and use and you mainly use bones for your artwork how do you get hold of your bones. So what happens is that i meet every year have. Intimate restaurant owner. Images wind bones be eaten theres no flesh remaining then you can and go to the year in nature in asking or tell you which share of those goes. In was this yes then the next the what you have to do is to come up with imperial incense or for the ancestors in order to wear piece of gear the spirits are there any months that you near your taking and explain it to those spirits what you are going to use those. Bones for in order to present them again protect them against their. Gaze dear miss a fiery in a torah zeal in order to handle to attain that ideal that those particular animals themselves would have loved or wow thats sounds are quite deep but how exactly is your artwork helping people to take proper care of the environment. So what happened is that a little bit for bones had we sent didnt p. H. S. All the of them. That people will be a retrial and some of that is thinking a not the. Greasy. Land on it you. Are in also the land our lead in. The evil one child i shall ask in pew it you know. Is will look a model in all our musicians and think us and call it we give them each a a no these that pulls them out of the edge to them and they compose hormones and compose songs and if we can imagine then digitally in our sons and poems about forecasting on the environment from the people that the people are low in laugh you can look at it in a statement you know build it i think now you mention how africa has lost its way from ecological balance how did that happen. It what happened that i mean colonialism. Is all about day in the process you know gaining you know the resources they have converting people to think lay them so that people forget now in our cultures its better for them to be better for us to be you know you have to be controlled so what happens therefore is that. We give the forgotten who we are with becomes so much other peoples alethia where you have to go in a trade bomb you dont kind of will be caught you wait until rigor and beautiful quote drops and rate drops you plant a tree to lean to the child a delete the child with the environment where they are and then you pick up and told him and for a mr the master of the how you know and also the lumber in a snake so what is it with leadership with any mothers any relationship with a chair you know their balance. Is a certainty ok if my mate is there. Therefore i would have to protect the halo one its where do i take it. If yours is a sheep literally to protect the sheep so they are those countries that is. Everything is protected to a new heretical balance ok now youre almost 18 yes whats your motivation to keep going strong. Well i want to vision for clean air in a song is a festival was a lot of people i love beauty i love this at least. But i have political neatly that is when i was brought up there were older people who to me adopted me they mentored me and helped me to be who i am i am motivated because they are going to see me and mentor and number of other people who is think like they do even those that dont think that they do says or get handed to the lead they do so that theyre. Creative that you know work ok i think and to me scholars are from Johannesburg South africa many thanks for your time. Thank you. Now was of you may remember him cause he gave all he could on the public love him for that 20 years ago eric was somebody for material guinea swam the 100 meter freestyle during the sydney olympics after the competitors had been disqualified for a false start he had to swim the entire distance alone in the gigantic ball he really struggled to get to the last of tb test done but that sharing of the public spread him on he finally touched the end of the pool after one minute 52 seconds and 72. 00 hundreds of a 2nd thats more than twice the time of the Gold Medalist that and him the credit of being the slowest olympic swimmer on the nickname erik. While his style remains a little bit different to other professional swimmers and his training conditions arent any better where 20 years ago he still inspired by the limbic spirit. Was a money shot to world seem as a result of his achievement 20 years later hes been reflecting on his unlikely stardom in sydney. After finishing the swim on a personal level i really felt grateful i got to feel like i had at least represented my country and i had completed the 100 metres that was something i had never achieved before. I believe that in life when you have a goal to do something you have to keep pushing yourself to do it you have to keep going to keep fighting because sutcliffe i said effort this is how you get what you want. Moral of the story is to never give up and thats where we draw the curtains on this show thanks for sharing your time with us you can visit our website dot com slash africa stories. On twitter leave you with more extraordinary work from south africa. Images of the. Lead. With their respect it deserves. The right. One of the worlds most important contemporary artists 88 year old get a heart of a stone unveils what he calls his last major work that story coming up on arts and culture and later on the show London Fashion week edition designers take a step away from the traditional catwalk and. Whats the buzz on bees and electronic music. Welcome to arts and culture german artist says hes completed the last major project of his life and if thats true it is a pretty grand farewell the 88 year old whose works rank among the most valuable in contemporary art donated a new set of abstract stained glass windows to germanys oldest abbey. Its a monumental gift of in estimable value light shines through an original work by gary hart who wish to abstract art Gothic Church architecture but its not a biblical scene which is depicted. Lincolns incredibly important we dont give in to the temptation to depict god as an old man with a bushy beard and white hair. When gary hart was asked to create the windows he agreed immediately. The artist was not present at the opening but let it be known he is very happy with the result you know its work is based on an abstract painting from 1990 which richter processed digitally. Split it up on the computer and mirrored it then mirrored the image over and over again here in the middle we have the progression he used as a model for the towline being the. Log of. Turning into glass is a process of translation canvas into a very special material the windows were created here in the studios of the whole class or. Found 3 in munich various techniques were used details from the canvas version have. Very different effect. Because we have lights a canvas image isnt back with us you have a situation with different lighting conditions morning afternoon evening with the sun shining through. Had already designed a Church Window in 2007 he made one for the cologne cathedral now theres a counterpart in total despite the fact that richter actually left the church. As this promise of attorney being present for centuries in a church thats a different appeal than having pictures in a museum. Germanys oldest abbey in the small village of total is now also a place of pilgrimage for lovers. And from one of the best known names in art to an artist whose real name remains unknown and it looks like for once banksy is anonymity is working against him the European UnionsTrademark Office has thrown out banks his application to register this mural of a protester throwing flowers they said if the artist wants to stop merchandisers from copying his motif theyll have to use copyright law like other artists banksy is avoided copyright lawsuits because they would require him to reveal his identity is even said copyright is for losers. Because in 1000 pandemic and the economic crunch are forcing fashion houses to get even more creative burberry has already switched some of its production from trench coats to protective medical wear and now for the London Fashion week the british label took to the countryside trading in their traditional runway for Forest Trails and an online audience designer ricardo to shoot live streamed his street where heavy Spring Summer collection and a show choreographed by acclaimed performance artist i met him. And another designer at London Fashion week isnt doing any kind of runway at all not even a hike through the woods but gareth pugh is showing his new collection at christies auction house its a multimedia exhibition combining fashion music and film she has been called an architect and sculptor of fashion even before we meet a fashion here he is in his own words. Youd like to see challenge that with things that dont we dont necessarily like to see downs be it some of it is so to speak so its kind of like. Doing something in a in a in the thought process than just astounded fashion show which i sometimes equate to a tennis match to open and its you know we need to evolve from nothing basically with the collection weve weve done a very small collection its 13 looks that weve had with 13 different tracks its kind of like a visual album. So so yeah i mean it was it was super nice to be back at the studio after the down. I realized you know working from home doesnt quite cut it so being back at the studio and happens in the folk. On this really important im a little model and a star mechanism model in the studio just before because the studio down after the lockdown. When it was stuck. It was stuck to a mirror tile for that its not all anymore you know the the genesis of the idea was to create something slaughtered on a point you know we will look in bach at the mystics all we have made and im not just talking about one thing in particular brought think the time of reckoning for everybody where youre looking bach to walk has gone before and youre looking forwards to a time when those wrongs can be made right. This is being so incredibly to motorists theres been so many things going on whether its a protest in hong kong whether its been monuments been torn down whether its a pandemic its an Election Year in america it is it feels like the plates of the earth are kind of shifting and nobody really knows where its going to end so yeah this project i guess is a reaction to having enough going on around us and its hope so they are going to leave people with a sense of hope and optimism. Because we all need to bed. Now if insects can be fashionable then be user totally on trend theyve been featured in a gucci collection the venom is a hit in high end cosmetics and new studies show that honey actually does have some Medicinal Properties some musicians are also turning to be used for inspiration welcome to the world of d. J. And beekeeper be only samp. Keeping bees and working as a d. J. Arent normally activities that most people would say is related in any way but not for be any said his music comes from the buzzing of bees produces cool beats with it and has a message for his listeners as being harassed of loss he said during the time i was trying to make a Performance Audio piece a state you get these suspects and sells people connect today through 3 sounds. The only senator studied art and design and began his experimental music while he was still a student he calls it insect tech just. C c uses a special software to isolate the different frequencies of the bees a minute. There are 3 types of being a high this is the queen. Who is the draw and the charge of their own frequency right. So the crave has a high pitch piping sound homeworkers economy midrange sound drunk by all be a piece bangs so. He uses a scanner to record the sounds made by the police the frame he built is fitted with microphone use and a digital recorder which can capture hours of buzzing in libby hartley. Being nice always tinkering with new instruments for his music once hes filled the recorders memory and the london fog beyond he sent takes it home to his studio he analyzes the bee sounds and arranges them through various synthesizers to create a track and when you put sounds all of this they become kind of the last. Dick so the community. Interface for this synthesizer is to be flowing into the flower. Its hers i moved. In the next the sound would. Be any samples taken his sound installations all over the world for example to the awful lek tronic a festival in vince austria and the media ought to be an ally in fatfat poland. Always takes to the stage in a beekeeper suit he wants to remain anonymous he wants the listeners to concentrate solely on the music. But this year his performance as a concert. During a lot of locally being able to come appear to my beings in just meditates and you know regardless of the pandemic in lockdown i receive the bees just carry on as normal and that she theyre happy that theres not as much pollution. This year. Defense bees are happy to give any semblance to his sounds are a hit especially with Young Audiences at the same time they raise awareness of the worldwide decline of the populations. The author of the novel forrest gump has died at age 77 when stan groom wrote several books but hes best known for his story turned into a film by robertson backus. My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what youre going to get the 1994 movie forrest gump 16 oscars with tom hanks and the title role as a slow thinking optimist or becomes a star athlete. Well thats it for this edition of arts and culture all leave you now with some jimi hendrix on this 50th anniversary of his death the music world is remembering has short but brilliant career thanks for watching. Can inspire change. People make mistakes go for fantastic right. Join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and Work Together for a Better Future for. Many concerts you all but using it for good. 90 minutes on the. W. How does the virus spread. Why do we panic and when will all this. 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Israel imposes a 2nd nationwide lockdown on the jewish new year public spaces and people ordered home as coronavirus cases soar but critics call the move a catastrophe for the economy also on the program. The u. S. Bans downloads of talk and the trumpet ministration warns that the chinese owned apps could be used to spy on american citizens. And fire raging through. The biggest on earth but president also plays down the danger even as climate scientists. Are. A micro local its nice to have you with us israel is re imposing a full nationwide lockdown with authorities there saying its the only way to slow soaring c