
COMPLETE BURNING AWAY – The ashes of Kurt Cobain | BENDIGO
September 14 – October 20, 2013. Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre Bendigo, Australia. Opened by Kelly Gellatly, Director Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne. [Featuring an encore performance of Romitelli’s Trash TV Trance by Mauricio Carrasco] In 2008, Natascha Stellmach sent out an international call, inviting six volunteers to join her in smoking the ashes of the dead rock star, Kurt Cobain, in a private, undocumented ritual. Immediately hype, hysteria and intrigue spread across 58 countries, while the online world erupted […]
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