Mixed Media

The work is designed to be hanged onto a wall in a height of several meters in order to be seen from a distance, so that you can ask yourselves what might be in the "Kulturbeutel".

(here in the documenta-hall Kassel, 05 / 96)



Culture
1 Culture or a culture consists of the ideas, customs, and art that are produced or shared by a particular society. …
2 A culture is a particular society or civilization, especially one considered in relation to its ideas, its art or its way of life….
3 Culture is 3.1 the intellectual and artistic aspects of a society. … 3.2 the arts considered as a group, for example art, music, and literature, together with activity or interest in them. … 3.3 the quality of being well-mannered and well-educated, especially when you have a good knowledge of the arts and an interest in them. …
4 Physical culture, beauty culture, etc. is the development of your body or the improvement of your physical appearance, for example by doing exercises or having particular types of treatment. …
5 The culture of bees, silkworms, fish, etc. is the practice of keeping, rearing, and breeding them for the substance that they produce. …
6 A culture is also a group of bacteria or a group of cells taken from a person or animal, which are grown in a laboratory as part of an experiment, for example to see if a particular disease is present. …

( from Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary 1987)