Feminist art in virtual space / immersive history lesson of the Bread and Roses strike, 1912
Themescape / artificial entertainment world, "Tropical Islands" housed within a factory space formerly used to manufacture zeppelins (post-Socialist region in the former GDR.)
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| Paul Klee's etching, Angelus Novus, at the Tropical Islands theme park in Berlin. |
"A few buildings in the middle of nowhere, then the camera delves deep into exotic, luxuriant vegetation. Here we were are in Tropical Islands, a leisure complex near Krausnick, a village 70 kilometres south of Berlin on the site of a former Soviet airbase. In this spot, and moving from one affectation to another, the upheavals of the last century pile up like so much sediment. – Europe’s scars and contradictions, its mental space, its dreams and illusions....Hovering over all of this and drawn on a white balloon [...] a drawing based on a watercolour by Paul Klee painted in 1920 called Angelus Novus, with reference to a text by Benjamin, edited rapidly in 1940, which describes it as the angel of History with its face turned toward the past:
He wanted to linger on, awaken the dead and make whole what had been smashed. But there was a storm brewing in Paradise which had got caught in his wings, a wind so strong that the angel could no longer close them. This storm propelled him unstoppably into the future to which his back was turned, while the pile of debris before him grew skyward. This storm is what we call progress." (source)
Second Life protest against "Front National" (France)
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