Tuesday 22 May 2012

Cultural cross-over, a hybrid or something else?



According to my freshly ironed Times, one “attraction” at the Chelsea Flower Show this year is a “DMZ Forbidden Garden” where “a wooden watchtower glowers over a patch of soil littered with landmines and cartridge cases”. This “pays homage to the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea”.  

I suppose it is an inevitable consequence of the courageous decision by the RHS Board to put the direction of their show in the hands of the Turner Prize selection committee. 

At least we have been spared a video installation of Amazonian deforestation or a spontaneous interactive event on the theme of Genetically Modified lawnmowers.

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