Politics ruled supreme on this year’s Glastonbury Festival. British punk duo Bob Vylan controversially leads the crowd on the West Holtz stage, trying to ban the ode to “Death, Death IDF Death” and aging Canadian rocker Neil Yeil BBC By live streaming his title suit, accusing it of being “under the company’s control.” Then there is the Belfast rap band Kneecap, who, despite MPs including the British Prime Minister, were allowed to execute, calling for cancellation due to their pro-Palestinian remarks and previous terrorist charges.
The same is true of the artwork displayed at the world’s largest music festivals over the weekend, including an anti-fascist installation by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger at the Terminal 1 stage.
Wollinger’s work, titled ” jungle gym Part of the exhibition “No One Illegal” curated by Oriana Garzón will focus on miserable children in Gaza. “The children in this world have no say or no power,” the artist said in a statement. His maze installation also faces challenges immigrants, including those faced by the bureaucracy they often face. Wallinger only used the color blue in his new work, also known as “United Nations Fund Blue”. “UNICEF has shown some hope in all this,” he said.
The charity estimates that it has been killed or injured in Gaza in the nearly two years since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
In a show curated by Banksy, in Terminal 1, which debuted in Glastonbury, festival viewers took a taste of the immigration experience at the British border. After entering, visitors are forced to answer a question from the British citizen test and if they get it wrong, they will be sent to the queue. Then they walked through a hut designed like a refugee camp and entered jungle gym.
“The installation tied up this vision of childhood and play, where one of the jungle gyms is located in the jungle gym, but the whole thing is obscured by the chain fence of the maze,” Wallinger said. “I wanted to do something with childhood ideals, but [contrasted by] The reality of so many people. ”
He added that when making the installation, he was “thinking all of this… Meanwhile, I was thinking about the United Nations and UNICEF, and some hopeful bodies, but these superpowers are also trying to avoid the various shifts.”
Garzón told Art newspaper Curated news from terminals made from materials saved from Heathrow Airport this year is more critical than ever. “This is the first generation of human beings who have seen genocide,” she said. “I feel like we’re in a state of shock because we don’t see this fascism so fast, but we need to wake up soon.”
Many of the artists performing in Terminal 1 are immigrants themselves. “Our space here is a safe space for the immigrant community, and our canvas is better than the Glastonbury festival [British] Empire,” Galzon said.
Before the festival, 210,000 people landed at Worthy Farm in Somerset and its organizers received a “private and confidential” letter signed by 30 major names in the music industry. They called on them to take their knees out of the lineup. One of the band’s members, Liamógógógógógóhannaidh, who performed under the name of Mo Chara, was recently released on bail and was accused of raising a flag in support of Terrrorist Group Hezbollah.
Garzón added: “The organizers are very aware of this; Kneecap said the extent to which the music industry is divided. The festival has never attended a large conference to talk about the band, and they have to do it,” he added. [with Kneecap]. We are at a very critical moment for many reasons and now it is more important than ever. That’s why we have to convey “no one is illegal”. ”
