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Sunday, April 17, 2005

German Artist to "Exhibit" His Child's Birth

Birth as performance art

A German artist has invited 30 people to attend the birth of his first child in an art gallery in Berlin as part of an exhibition entitled "Birth." The spectators, who registered for the exhibition via the Internet, will participate in "an exceptional experience," said the artist Winfried Witt for whom "man, because he is unique, is an existential object of art." The artist wants to "show living people, perceived at the same time as object and subject through a kind of magnifying glass and to expose man in the situations of his personal life." ...

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Posted by V R at 2:16 PM
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