Sydney olympics being a theme as the slowest olympic swimmer. I. Youre welcome to the program why are we facing so many natural disasters how auctions on the environment contributed to the questions difficult to answer but not for 78 year old South African poet and sculptor. Hes using his extraordinary sculptures makes with some spirituality to help protect the environment his artwork made from animal bones is meant to encourage society to fight against actions that damage nature and the environment. This is not unusual and it also has some. Yes its a 78 year old South African sculptor professor and poet peter cantu really created 45. 00. He called the exhibition i was really a mess isnt any in the local language translated into english this means return to the sauce for the to sing 7 never seemed more urgent. Or we have to prepare ourselves for more kind of pandemics simply because we have disrespected nature we have grounded nature with plastic always sleeps everything and not carry so the whole issues of cleave the issues of. The other ones that are really led us to where we are now and yet as an African People our poll reps and Everything Else tells us about how we must. Cully. The artist has been working for more than 40 years use material he scavenge is fun scrape yet off with bare bones as hes done over the last 3 years by creating this coronavirus Restrictions Mean the public has not yet been able to see the artworks but every sculpture can be viewed virtually together with supplementary audio that truly recorded specially for each piece. What this exhibition has done its challenge what curating is because for a long time we all think with creating has been traditional has been going to space and seen art to its citrus and particular these brains had to challenge the art and the art industry even how we speak of art and how art speaks to us critic and tool is an expert on african indigenous knowledge systems. d down the bones. In order to divine the stage of the nation in this state of the universe this beautiful environment this did to her own Mental Health as to what exactly happened lets for every visitor to decide by himself whether looking at the sky only. Physically during a planned 2 of the exhibition through several cells african museums scheduled for 2021. Years artist to lead joins us from Johannesburg South africa and thanks for your time so your artwork is warning humans to return to the source or be faced with more pandemics now that sounds a bit scary what and how do you mean. And what i mean is there we need to reach serious human beings treat. Whoever we reported to nature or with our hunting. In numerous d in keeping them honest in the leave work for industry in the meanwhile for in a vocalist so you know that we really are and can create really serious. Imbalance. You imagine yourself. Killing animals and using them your many years bones for your artwork how do you get hold of your bones so what happens is that i meet every year here. In my restaurant. Riches when the bones have been eaten theres no flesh remaining then you can then go to the it in nature is there in asking or tell you whichever of those. You know was this yes then the next the what you have to do is to come up with a parable incense or 2 or the ancestors in order to a piece of gear the spirits are there any months that you are taking and explain it only to those spirits what you are going to use those. Bones for in order to present them again protect them against their. Gaze to miss a fiery in a torah zeal in order to handle to attain that ideal that those particular animals themselves would have loved about that sounds are quite deep but how exactly is your artwork helping people to take proper care of the environment. So what happened is that a little bit for bones had we sent didnt p. H. S. All the of them. That people rather this be a retrial in summer that is thinking 18 of the. Brissie. Units in land on. Or in a also in land our lead in. The yvonne childish as in pua you know. Is will look a model in all our you know musicians and think us and call if we give them each a a no these that pulls them out really extra them and they compose forums and you can post songs and if you can imagine then 63 sons and colonists. Forecasting on the environment from the people that the people are low in la you can look at it if you misstatement you know and it seems now you mention how africa has lost its way from ecological balance how did that happen. It would have been that i mean colonialism. Is all about day in the process you know gaining you know the resources of converting people to think play them so that people forget now in our cultures its better for them to be better for us to be you know you know to be controlled so what happens therefore is that. We give the full quote in who we are it becomes so much other peoples alethia where you have to go in a trade bomb you dont count the umbilical cord you wait until red or a beautiful quote drops in a way drops you plant a tree to link the child in a to leave the child with the environment where they are and then to pick up the totem and for it is theres the master of the how you know and also the lumber in a snake so what is it with leadership with any mothers any relationship with a chat you know their balance. Is a certainty ok if my mate is there. Therefore i would have to protect the hey you know no one its where do i take it. If yours is a sheep literally to protect the sheep so there are those countries theres. Everything is protected to a neurological balance ok now youre almost 18 yes whats your motivation to keep going strong. I want to vision for clean air in the songs of veteran who was a lot. I love you too i love this at least. But i have political meet me that is when i was brought up there were older people who to me adopted lead a mentor me and help me to be who i am i am motivated because they are going to see down me and mentor and number of other people who has the intellect they do even those who dont think that they do so either get handed to the lead they do so that there or thought its a hippie creative you know world ok it began to me scots are from Johannesburg South africa many thanks for your time. Now was of you may remember him cause he gave all he could on the public loves him about 20 years ago erica for material guinea swam the 100 meter freestyle during the sydney olympics after the competitors have been disqualified for a false start he had to swim the entire distance alone in that gigantic ball he really struggled to get to the last 15 metres done but that sharing of the public spread him on he finally touched the end of the pool after one minute 52 seconds and 72. 00 hundreds of a 2nd thats more than twice the time of the Gold Medalist that and him the credit of being the slowest olympic swimmer on the nickname eric. While his style remains a little bit different to other professional swimmers and his training conditions arent any better than 2 years ago he still inspired by the olympic spirit. Was a money shot to world theme as a result of his achievement 20 years later hes been reflecting on his unlikely stardom in sydney. Since after finishing the swim on a personal level i really felt grateful i got to feel like i had at least represented my country and i had completed the 100 metres that was something i had never achieved before. I believe that in life when you have a goal to do something you have to keep pushing yourself to do it you have to keep going to keep fighting because sutcliffe i said effort this is how you get what you want. Moral of the story is to never give up and thats where we draw the curtains on this show thanks for sharing your time with us you can visit our website dot com slash africa stories. On facebook and twitter we need you with more extraordinary work from south africa. To any images of the bellows gallery even jobs but lets remind our environment with our respect it deserves a great weekend. Im secure in the room. And in the end this is a me youre not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. Are you familiar with this. With a smug. As would lie and say. Whats your story. d on what numbers of women especially of victims of violence. Take part and send us your story train always to understand this new culture. Not of a little or nothing yet you want to become citizens. In full migrants your platform for reliable information. On. One of the worlds most important contemporary artists 88 year old gal unveils what he calls his last major work that story coming up on arts and culture and later on the show London Fashion week edition designers take a step away from the traditional catwalk and. Whats the buzz on bees and electronic music. Welcome to arts and culture german artist joe hart says hes completed the last major project of his life and if thats true it is a pretty grand farewell the 88 year old whose works rank among the most valuable in contemporary art donated a new set of abstract stained glass windows to germanys oldest abbey. Its a monumental gift of in estimable value light shines through an original work by care hard to ishtar abstract art Gothic Church architecture but its not a biblical scene which is depicted. I think its incredibly important we dont give in to the temptation to depict god as an old man with a bushy beard and white hair. When gary hart was asked to create the windows he agreed immediately. The artist was not present at the opening but let it be known he is very happy with the result the artwork is based on an abstract painting from 1990 which richter processed digitally. Split it up on the computer and mirrored it then mirrored the image over and over again here in the middle we have the progression he used as a model for the total i have been. Told i could be. Turning into glass is a process of translation from canvas into a very special material the windows were created here in the studios of the whole class or have found 3 in munich various techniques were used details from the canvas version have. Very different effect. Because we have lights a canvas image isnt backlit with glass you have a situation with different lighting conditions morning afternoon evening with the sun shining through. Ready designed a Church Window in 2007 he made one for the cologne cathedral now theres a counterpart in total despite the fact that richter actually left the church. As this promise of eternity being present for centuries in a church its a different appeal than having pictures in a museum. Germanys oldest abbey in the small village of total is now also a place of pilgrimage for lovers. And from one of the best known names in art to an artist whose real name remains unknown and it looks like for once banksy is anonymity is working against him the European UnionsTrademark Office has thrown out banks his application to register this mural of a protester throwing flowers they said if the artist wants to stop merchandisers from copying his motif hell have to use copyright law like other artists banks hes avoided copyright lawsuits because they would require him to reveal his identity hes even said copyright is for losers. Because in 1000 pandemic and the economic crunch are forcing fashion houses to get even more creative burberry has already switched some of its production from trench coats to protective medical wear and now for the London Fashion week the british label took to the countryside trading in their traditional runway for Forest Trails and an online audience designer ricardo to shoot live streams in st where heavy Spring Summer collection and a show choreographed by acclaimed performance artist. And another designer at London Fashion week isnt doing any kind of runway at all not even a hike through the woods but gareth pugh is showing his new collection at christies auction house its a multimedia exhibition combining fashion music and film she has been called an architect and sculptor of fashion even before we meet a fashion here he is in his own words. Youd like to see challenge that with things that dont we dont necessarily like to see down the soviets in the us so the stakes so its kind of like. Doing something in a in a in an that for months then just to stand it fashion show which i sometimes equate to a tennis match of open and its you know we need to evolve from nothing basically with the connection with weve been a very small collection its 13 looks that weve had with 13 different trucks kind of like a visual album. So so yeah i mean it was it was super nice to be back at the stage after the down and i realized you know working from home doesnt quite cut it so being back at the studio and happens and focus on this really important i made a little model and i started making this model in the studio just before we cause the studio down after the lockdown. Well it was. It was structural. Tile voted its no animal you know that the genesis of the idea was to create something slaughters on a pint you know we will look in bach at the mystics all we have made and im not just talking about one thing in particular brought think the time of reckoning for everybody where youre looking bach to walk has gone before and youre looking forwards to a time when those wrongs can be made right. This year its been so incredibly tumultuous theres been so many things going on whether its a protest in hong kong whether its been monuments been torn down whether its a pandemic its an Election Year in america its just it feels like the plates of the earth kind of shifting and nobody really knows where its going to end so yeah this project i guess is a reaction to having enough going on around us and its hope so they are going to leave people with a sense of hope and optimism. Because we all need to bed. Now if insects can be fashionable then be user totally on trend theyve been featured in a gucci collection the venom is a hit in high end cosmetics and new studies show that humming actually does have some Medicinal Properties some musicians are also turning to be used for inspiration welcome to the world of d. J. And beekeeper b. Only sam. Keeping bees and working as a d. J. On its normally activities that most people would see is related in any way but not to be any said his music comes from the buzzing of bees he produces cool beats with it and has a message for his listeners this being a hot suv las vegas set during the time i was trying very former seraglio pieces state yeah thanks to speak for themselves people connect today through 3 sounds. The only sense of studied art and design and jam his experimental music while he was still a student he calls it insect tech just. C uses a special software to isolate the different frequencies of the bees a mate. There are 3 types of being a high this is the queen. Is the drums and the charge of their own frequency range. So the crane has a high pitch piping sound homeworkers has economy midrange sound drunk by all be hostile to these days so. He uses a scanner to record the sound is made by the beings in the frame he built is fitted with microphone just under a digital recorder which can capture hours of buzzing in libya a high of. Being nice always tinkering with new instruments for his music. Once hes filled the recorders memory in a london fog barely sent takes it home to his studio analyzes the b. Sounds and arranges them through various synthesizers to create a track and when you put sounds all of this they become kind of the last. Dick so the committee clearly. The interface for this synthesizer is to be flying into the flower you know. Its resigning weve got it. Now its in the works the sound would. Be any samples taken his sound installations all over the world for example to the oz electronica festival in linds austria and the media ought to be an ally in fox vast poland. Always takes to the stage in a beekeeper suit he wants to remain anonymous he wants the listeners to concentrate solely on the music. That this year his performances a concert and during lockdown of locally being able to come appear to my be is in just maybe its. You know regardless of the pandemic can lock down everything the bees just carry on as normal and that she theyre happy that theres not as much pollution. This year. Defense bees are happy being any semblence to his sounds are a hit especially with Young Audiences at the same time they raise awareness of the worldwide decline of the populations. The author of the novel forrest gump has died at age 77 when stan groom wrote several books but hes best known for his story turned into a film by robertson backus. 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