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Friday October 03, 2008 at 09:00 AM |
When Kurt Cobain killed himself the music world lost one of her great voices. His songs, his image and his band, Nirvana, were the driving force behind the Seattle grunge movement, inspiring a generation of angsty teens to grow their hair and stand united in a great cry of "whatever." Leave it to the art world to do something weird with his remains.
I almost didn't believe this story when I saw it on TheDailySwarm, but it appears to be legit. An artist intends to smoke Cobain's ashes as part of a performance peice. For real, WTF?
Australian-born Natascha Stellmach claims to have acquired the ashes of
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Now she’s transformed the grunge star’s
remains into an installation titled Set Me Free, that investigates
suicide and the power of desecration.
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The six-minute poetic meditation on death’s proximity ends with the word ‘Gone’. Near Death Experience, is a text-based work where Kurt Cobain, Adolf Hitler, Diane Arbus and the Brothers Grimm meet in a twilight zone. Two more works, Black Scan and Untitled, build to the final work: Gone. In Gone, Stellmach presents a joint containing Cobain’s ashes, which is held in an antique case engraved with the work’s title. Stellmach intends to smoke this joint in a secret Berlin location. This act, according to the artist, will release Cobain “into the ether from the media circus.”
I really don't know what to say about this. I hate to be one to decry art because I believe art should be free and open to interpretation, but this just seems like a publicity stunt (not to mention a pretty freaky thing to do with a dead icon's ashes). What do you guys think?
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Friday October 03, 2008 at 12:33 PM
I'd take a hit...
Saturday October 04, 2008 at 10:36 PM
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Saturday October 04, 2008 at 11:59 PM
I WOULD SAY, WHAT BETTER WAY TO GRAB HEADLINES!!! You know, to me, sadly, this IS the way to grab headlines these days. She probably has no more claim to his ashes (if there were ashes) than anyone. Why on earth would Courtney Love (his wife at the time of his suicide) SELL his ashes? Come on! I think that the whole thing needs to be checked out by / on Snopes.
Sunday October 05, 2008 at 04:06 PM
holla at my boy day-one hot beats and pure talent..one movement...
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