Documenta 13 Highlights
This was my first time to Documenta, and it certainly was as overwhelming as people said it was. I was there for two days, and I made peace with myself at the end of my second day that I wouldn't be able to see everything, as I was quite fulfilled with what I saw and was completely exhausted.
This was one of AND AND AND's pieces, a little cafe selling organic foods from the region. I liked it because I found it hard to get whole grain baked goods in town and the quiche they had was quite excellent. The organic raspberries were so sweet and fragrant.
Pedro Reyes created a Sanatorium and I got the treatment called the Museum of Hypothetical Lives. My therapist just graduated from art school in Geneva.
This "Alter Banhof Video Tour" from Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller took you through a kind of stream of consciousness, slightly fantastical narrative walk through the old Hauptbanhof.
A much talked about piece is Tino Sehgal's pitch black room where you walk in and hear music. Only after a while do you realize that the music is coming from singers who are walking amongst you. After I left Kassel, this is one of the pieces that people always ask if I'd seen or not!
Thomas Bayrle is a Frankfurt based designer whom I hadn't heard of before this Documenta, but apparently he's shown at several before. I loved this piece, not particularly new, of engines and wipers emitting a sound, which you find out later (as I did when I asked a guard) are actually prayers.
With so much art spread around the city, I was thankful for these comfy Documenta 13 lawn chairs where I took a nap one afternoon by the lake!
