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The Ironlung Union is a production studio workshop specializing in innovative works rooted in traditional craftsmanship.
Strange Fruit (from a Wandering Tree)
Here are the intial photos from Croce und Wir of the tree for the installation Strange Fruit (from a Wandering Tree). This 3.5-4 meter tall symbolic tree has been fashioned from formed copper tubing from whose branches will hang “Strange Fruit” consisting of photographic elements and small gilded objects.
In cooperation with the Academy for Applied Photography in Graz (A), the installation will travel through cities, towns and countrysides throughout America, Europe and Australia distributing its fruit as well as collecting personal interpretations of “Strange Fruit”.
The photographs explore in individualistic ways diverse interpretations regarding “Strange Fruit” from the figurative to the gender-specific, the mythological to the socio-political, the art historical to the intimately personal.
Special thanks to Gänsweider Metalltechnik for their support of this project.
First showing at the Academy: July 1, ‘10, 8:00 pm.
New York City and Upstate: August 5-22 (details TBA)
Milan-Zurich-Munich-Salzburg-Vienna: August 27 – Sept 8, ‘10
Gaensweider Metalltechnik
ILU welcomes Gänsweider Metalltechnik as a partner of ILU and sponsor of the production Strange Fruit (from a Wandering Tree).
Academy for Applied Photography, Graz
ILU welcomes the partnership of the Fotoakademie Graz in a cooperative project entitled Strange Fruit (from a Wandering Tree). Photos and more info will soon be available .
www.fotoakademie.at
Apple Girl
She’s a life-sized apple tree nymph with a mojo in both hands: a golden apple in her right hand and an ipod in her left hand behind her back.
The golden apple is like the one that Paris had to award “To the Fairest” of all goddesses on Olympia. Athena promised him wisdom; Hera promised to make him a powerful king; Aphrodite simply undressed and promised him the most beautiful lady in the land.
But most nymphs are having a hard time these days and have to beg for attention. Some give her gold, some give her time, some give her trinkets to make her smile again shine.
Maiden, Prince, Crown
An installation-performance which includes songs, spoken word compositions and anecdotes concerning tender and rough love: The accidental meeting between a wild, free-spirited maiden and an adventure-loving, successful prince; its surprising, yet all-too-human ending; love-inspired separations; the divine in disguise.
Bluegrass, Roots and Jazz with original and traditional titles.