theintestines – Mark Divo

THE INTESTINES (LABYRINTH FESTIVAL – COPENHAGEN, 1996)

In 1996 the city of Copenhagen was designated as the European Capital of Culture. I was invited to an underground art festival in the vast halls of a former submarine dry dock. Together with Ingo Giezendanner, Aenne Bennike, Guido Vanderbildt, Theresa Pereira and Eva von Wartburg, we created over-sized walk-in intestines out of scrap and papier-mâché over an area of 200 square meters. In the center the artist Marcel Kühn placed a machine that produced gigantic sausages made of cotton candy.

Unfortunately, the substandard accommodations in trailers, shabby fees, dilettante festival management and bad weather deflated our initial enthusiasm. Solely the proximity to Pusher Street in Christiania and the company of numerous fellow artists from all over Europe kept me from quitting the project. So I let myself be carried away to the extent of letting my pants down next to our intestines with a crowd of amateur male strippers at Pastor Leumund‘s peep show “the Lulu Institute”.