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On 25 february 2007 the exhibition "The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience" opened at the NICC in Antwerpen. The exhibition will last 10 months:
"See how around the sculpture "Oak Rumble" by Leon Vranken, a changing, twisting and evolving exhibition takes form, with works from Boris Beaucarne, Geert Goiris, Koen Deprez, Damien De Lepeleire, Bernd Lohaus, Philip Janssens, Danny Devos, Fanny Zaman, Austin Shull, Yu-Sheng Ho, Tomas Boiy, Walter Swennen and many others.
The first participant in a series of talks is the famous guitarist Philip Catherine and it begins on Sunday 25th of February at 15.30hrs.
The second contribution is from Walter Swennen on Sunday 25th of March."
DDV's contribution to "The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience" consists of three pieces for now. First of all there's a computer monitor in the NICC's shopwindow where you can see the live images from "Diggin' for Gordon" day and night.
Next is "The Black Dahlia", a sculpture from 1989: "2 photos of Elisabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia framed in solid wood. An electric motor slowly spins 2 metal rods with knives attached back and forth across the photos.
Elisabeth Short was found on a piece of wasteland in Los Angeles in 1947, drained of all her blood and roughly cut in half. Her killer remains at large."
Final piece is "ErdEcke", which starts out as a small corner of earth from the "Diggin' for Gordon" hole, in the exact shape and measure of Joseph Beuys' "FettEcke", an idea he originated for the first time ever in his action "Eurasienstab", performed at the Wide White Space of Annie De Decker and Bernd Lohaus in Antwerpen on 9 february 1968.
"ErdEcke" was started on 22 feb 2007 and will continue alongside other events at The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience for the coming ten months. We will keep a photographic report of its (d)evolution.
In true Bastard Art Style we announced this event in a 'newspaper article' inspired by the arrest of suspected Serial Killer Smailje Tulja. Tulja is suspected of being the "Trash Bag Murderer" of Mons, Belgium - an unsolved case about which DDV gave some lectures and supplied an extensive profile in 1997.
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