Darren Almond.KUNSTHALLE An adept chronicler of the industrial age, Almond uncovers the eerie traces of its violence in the most unexpected artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , from bus-stop shelters at Auschwitz to the body of his working-class father. In Zurich, along with familiar works involving time and trains, he will present a new video installation that promises to sound the depths of the Central Asian mining industry. Almond went down an active coal mine in Kazakhstan and filmed workers moving through the rudimentary shafts. The large-scale projections of the footage are accompanied by audio recordings of strangely incongruous in·con·gru·ous adj. 1. Lacking in harmony; incompatible: a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation. 2. nocturnal rituals performed by a shaman shaman (shä`mən, shā`–, shă`–), religious practitioner in various, generally small-scale societies who is believed to be able to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause illness because of a special relationship with, or with the miners, perhaps to exorcize the coal-dust demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. . Mar. 31-May 27. |
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