The Scream of the Strawbear @ Kunsthalle Giessen
Conversation between Matthew Cowan and Janine Sack about the publication and its making.
12.1.2024, 18 Uhr
Oberhessisches Museum / Kunsthalle Giessen
The Scream of the Strawbear
Matthew Cowan
Presentation: e-book and editions
The Scream of the Strawbear is a digital record, documenting the gathering of materials and the process of creating the project The Scream of the Strawbear. In his photographs, videos, installations and performances, visual artist Matthew Cowan surveys European customs and traditions and their continuing social function today. This interest originally stemmed from learning English ritual dances in New Zealand and has sparked an ongoing exploration of folklore and its contemporary connotations in a wider European context. A sequence of rituals, materials, costumes, plants, and museum artefacts form the central staging point of his artistic research.
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