Fission Trip Vol 1
Nektar - Becalmed
The Nice - Live in Glasgow
Geddy Lee - My Favourite Headache
Up early, awoken by the curious children of course...
A beautiful morning in Felsberg...
Teja had already been taken to his grandmother's house for the day (Yvonne gets up at 6am everyday with Teja!)...
After breakfast we drove in Jorg & Yvonne's big "bus" into Kassel and dropped off Xenia and Ansem with Yvonne's friend Sabine, who we've met a few times before...
She has a couple of kids of her own and was quite happy to take another two on - swimming beckoned apparently...
We drove on into town and parked near the main station, re-named the "Kunst Haptbahnhof" (Art Main Station) for the duration of documenta 12...
Created in 1990, the "Man Walking to the Sky" has resided in Kassel since documenta 9 (1992) and now has a permanent spot outside the station...
We made our way down to the ticket office and each bought a two day ticket, intending to see as much as possible today and then come back again later on...
I vowed to buy some souvenirs but can advise (writing this two weeks later) that I ended up buying no souvenirs...
Our first stop was the Museum Fredericianum...
Here, the best items, for me, were a nine screen display depicting the 2006 World Cup final in various different ways (eg the actual film, a computer generated version of the game, a camera on the coaches, a camera on one player with all his medical readings along the bottom of the screen, a camera showing the street outside the ground and so on)...
...and a circle of golden statues set around a floor covered in sugar...
On to the Documenta Halle...
...and highlights were the stuffed giraffe, which, until it was killed when caught up in the fighting, was a resident in a Palestinian Zoo. Its body was bought by an artist who had it stuffed and displayed it here...
..and a red room which made us all feel quite nauseous...
...and which led into a completely black room which, once your eyes adjusted, revealed the transporter carrying Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction...
We took a break for lunch and then did a little bit of shopping, Jorg and I heading to local CD shop "Scheibenbeisser"...
...where I satisfied my craving for Fehlfarben CDs - followed by a visit to "Saturn" where I picked up a three disc set of the soundtracks to all three series of the German classic "Heimat" along with a Falco DVD...
We reconvened and headed down to the Orangerie...
...where we waited the longest time for coffee before heading into our last exhibition of the day in the specially constructed Aue Pavillion...
Best things here were the boat of dreams, made entirely from fuel canisters, each with it's uncapped opening pointing to the water...
...a roomful of guitars, each set up to play a different chord and with a wheel attached to its front which scraped a plectrum across its strings. Chords sounded at random moments from random locations within the space...
Tasty!
A special mention too for the giant colourful teapot which was built as a memorial to the homosexuals of Berlin who were persecuted and murdered by theNazis...
Then it was back to the Bahnhof and the "bus" to Sabine's but she wasn't in - so we had a beer at a street cafe as we waited for her...
On the drive home we saw this rainbow out the van window - the kids were delighted...
In the evening, Anne and I drove Yvonne to a nearby village where she performed her belly dancing at one of her pupil's 25th wedding anniversary party, while Jorg stayed at home cooking pasta for dinner..
Another good day...
Highlight of the Day : documenta again at last...
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