Sunday, 24. September 2006
museum
buenas noches, todos! esta el otono, pero las hojas no cambian color... today we went to the science museum to see the gunther von hagens' exhibition "body worlds".
i haven't paid that much for an exhibition ever in my life... 21 dollars... i miss washington and its policy of free museums... and the exhibition was... interesting... and shocking... human bodies or - to be more precise - the muscles, the skeletons, arteries and veins, all the organs etc, etc... for example, one "work of art" was a human being divided into two separate bodies - one of his bones, the other - of his muscles... and there were muscle-men playing baseball and soccer, and ice-skating and skiing... and there were embrios of the humans... and one women reduced to muscles with several months' old baby in her womb. scandalous. von hagens, the creator of these bodies, wrote:
"the plastinated post-mortal body illuminates the soul by its very absence. plastination transforms the body, an object of individual mourning, into an object of reverence, learning, enlightment and appreciation".
and the brochures announce: ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, INSPIRING. original and authentic? is it an authentic - the really real - body or the work of art? or maybe let's leave these questions aside, as they don't lead anywhere. the official website is somehow not working, but you can get the impressions here - http://www.mos.org/bodyworlds/.
after the exhibition we went to the quincy market - the place of an old boston market where now you can buy thai, indian, greek, italian, japanese or whatever else food. delicioso:) and quincy is always packed with people, especially on sundays. after long considerations, i had some greek salad which were nothing like the traditional ones we had in greece... andrea got the japanese food and diego the thai. daniela only had some juice and some snacks. good meal after the day of exploration of human bodies... to strenghten our own.
outside we observed many performances by street artists... there were the hip hop dancers, there was a guy who literally got through the tennis racket... from the head to his toes... and there was one who tried to escape the mad-man's clothes, his hands being tied behind his back. and there were the alive sculptures, so wide-spread in europe. this is similar to the "body worlds" exhibition, just outside... some of those people could well be placed under the glass. people amazed by their own bodies and those of the others. flesh. real people. forgotten bodies in the times of digital technologies and virtual life. unfortunately, it was forbidden to take pictures inside the museum. i was excited by the sight... people staring at human bodies, at the flesh without the skin... and by staring i mean staring... from all around... the back and the front and the under of the exposed corpses.
and the sunday was over with the walk in the boston common and the public gardens. the kite in the wind and many squirrels everywhere. and people, spending the last hours of this warm and humid weekend. boston really has unpredictable weather.
pero... manana es lunes... tomorrow is monday. unfortunately or luckily? i don't know... i like it all here.
and these are my sunflowers at night, i did not have a picture of them before... and it is their last days... on the way home with the red hot chilli peppers.
i haven't paid that much for an exhibition ever in my life... 21 dollars... i miss washington and its policy of free museums... and the exhibition was... interesting... and shocking... human bodies or - to be more precise - the muscles, the skeletons, arteries and veins, all the organs etc, etc... for example, one "work of art" was a human being divided into two separate bodies - one of his bones, the other - of his muscles... and there were muscle-men playing baseball and soccer, and ice-skating and skiing... and there were embrios of the humans... and one women reduced to muscles with several months' old baby in her womb. scandalous. von hagens, the creator of these bodies, wrote:
"the plastinated post-mortal body illuminates the soul by its very absence. plastination transforms the body, an object of individual mourning, into an object of reverence, learning, enlightment and appreciation".
and the brochures announce: ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, INSPIRING. original and authentic? is it an authentic - the really real - body or the work of art? or maybe let's leave these questions aside, as they don't lead anywhere. the official website is somehow not working, but you can get the impressions here - http://www.mos.org/bodyworlds/.
after the exhibition we went to the quincy market - the place of an old boston market where now you can buy thai, indian, greek, italian, japanese or whatever else food. delicioso:) and quincy is always packed with people, especially on sundays. after long considerations, i had some greek salad which were nothing like the traditional ones we had in greece... andrea got the japanese food and diego the thai. daniela only had some juice and some snacks. good meal after the day of exploration of human bodies... to strenghten our own.
outside we observed many performances by street artists... there were the hip hop dancers, there was a guy who literally got through the tennis racket... from the head to his toes... and there was one who tried to escape the mad-man's clothes, his hands being tied behind his back. and there were the alive sculptures, so wide-spread in europe. this is similar to the "body worlds" exhibition, just outside... some of those people could well be placed under the glass. people amazed by their own bodies and those of the others. flesh. real people. forgotten bodies in the times of digital technologies and virtual life. unfortunately, it was forbidden to take pictures inside the museum. i was excited by the sight... people staring at human bodies, at the flesh without the skin... and by staring i mean staring... from all around... the back and the front and the under of the exposed corpses.
and the sunday was over with the walk in the boston common and the public gardens. the kite in the wind and many squirrels everywhere. and people, spending the last hours of this warm and humid weekend. boston really has unpredictable weather.
pero... manana es lunes... tomorrow is monday. unfortunately or luckily? i don't know... i like it all here.
and these are my sunflowers at night, i did not have a picture of them before... and it is their last days... on the way home with the red hot chilli peppers.
jusionyte, 23:21h
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