· 1995
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Antibodies is a collaborative book project by word- and soundartist dirk huelsTrunk from Frankfurt am Main/Germany and the interdisciplinary artist and musician Brandstifter (Firestarter) from Mainz who currently resides in New York. It's a modern guidebook to enhance our understanding of mental and physcial health. It also serves to establish a well-balanced relationship between truth and folly, therefore it was necessary to disconnect bodyparts, to misunderstand first-aid manuals and to distort medical facts. Exact applications of absurdities and nonsense will strengthen the vital immune power and will keep inherent necessities and performance constraints at bay. Brandstifter found the drawings he used as a source for his absurd collaging in an old and yellowed German first aid book from the nineteen-thirties. he played with them like toys and published the grotesque results with red cross rubber stamp and bondage under the name "Fleshlego." The antibodies cut-up-text, by Dirk HuelsTrunk is based on medicine- and nursing books. With the help of modern surgery it was possible to twist the cold-technical-abstract-bureaucratic language of medicine and nursing and give it a poetic-surreal feeling. new meaning and humane recovery procedures can be gained. Warning! This book can change your attitude towards your bodyparts and relations. it can also influence longterm ideologies and belief-systems as well as your personal performance ability.
· 2012
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