I have to say, I was a little bit disappointed. I had left about 2.5 hours to see the museum, and be on time for my next thing. However, it turned out to be this tiny little exhibit- there were about 6 different contemporary video artists who related in some way to fairy tales.
But not really.
1) A fat woman works in a bread making factory. She sweats, and her sweat causes the bread dough to rise. Then when the bread dough is ready, it goes to her, and she makes it thinner, it drops down and then to a normal sized woman, who makes it thinner, and drops it down to a creepily skinny woman, who then sends it to another woman who cuts the dough into bread-sized lumps. Then something happened along the lines of flowers and flower scent being the payment? and then the whole thing happened again.
2) There's a video about this lightbulb factory in China somewhere. There's images of some of the workers dancing through everything else. Some were twirling, some were dressed up, some were normal, and they were just dancing through the rest of the factory. It was beautiful, but I couldn't find the meaning.
3) was a Dutch woman who somehow got bulldozers to come and tear up a Dutch beach and make it look like the surface of the moon. Then she put a flag on top of it, and proclaimed to the camera "I am the first woman on the moon."
4) As political protest, this guy organized for 500 people or so to try to move a sand dune. They don't really succeed, but it's supposed to show the power of people working together.
5) I can honestly say that I didn't get this one at all. I sat there for about a half minute then left.
6) This was the only one there that I really liked. Didn't really get the idea, but it was pretty. The idea was that this weird creature out of a Borges (probably why I liked it), which is wearing old fashioned clothing and a necklace of plastic bubbles a la lady gaga. It spins around and around in a circle, with its arms outstretched. This creature is in the middle of a beautiful room in a Schloß which is actually near Buchenwald. It spins and spins, and as it spins it gets more dizzy, or more tired, or something like that, because at the very end it just collapses. Again, didn't understand it, but it was beautiful.
The only photo that I could take.A photo of a photo.
Impressive, I know.
After that, a few of us met at the Tadshikische Teestube. I think I spelled that right, but honestly, I have no idea. It's supposed to be from Tajiskistan, but I think it was mostly Russian influenced. We even got a shot of vodka (here: wodka) to drink with the tea, to get rid of all the sweetness.
Anyway, we ordered a samovar of tea (I learned that word from 30 Rock, and this is probably the first time I've ever had to use it). Basically, you get this huge samovar of boiling water, and a tiny pot of very strong tea on top of it. You pour yourself some strong tea, then put in more hot water. Then there's a bunch of different sweets and sugars. You can put certain ones in your tea, like jam, brown sugar, sugar cubes, these little marzipan-looking things that were hard lumps of sugar. You are also given things like rum-soaked raisins, and lots of other sweets. The vodka was actually very necessary, because everything else was waaayyy too sweet.
The tiny little palace-type-thing that the tea place was in
The tea place- cute, right? Unfort, not my photo.I think we were sitting at the closest table though.
Lots of talking, talking about nothing.
Lots of talking, talking about nothing.
I took a photo of this on the way home... I thought it was just too pretty to pass up.
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