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Visual Art Olafur the Supreme, Olafur the Immortal, No OB-GYN, I Was Born Through a Portal
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM
The Danish artist raps.
Okay, so it's not really him. But this video comes to you on a tip from Eric F, who says he's heard Olafur Eliasson was in fact a teenage breakdancing champion.
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Rap from countries with socialized medicine, retirement benefits, and a month of paid vacation every year comes off as fake.
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I'm so glad you put this up. Mike posted it to Hankblog, and I censored him.
From Wikipedia,
"Eliasson prefers not to share too much about his own background, believing that biography is often overemphasized in writings about an artist's work. Eliasson's mother was a dressmaker; his father was a cook and amateur painter. A little-known fact about his youth is that as a teenager, Eliasson was the break-dancing champion of Scandinavia."
From Wikipedia,
"Eliasson prefers not to share too much about his own background, believing that biography is often overemphasized in writings about an artist's work. Eliasson's mother was a dressmaker; his father was a cook and amateur painter. A little-known fact about his youth is that as a teenager, Eliasson was the break-dancing champion of Scandinavia."
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these are two friends of mine from college: they're super-smart comedians, and 100% american, just interested in art. they also made a rap video about tracy letts (author of "august, osage county") for those of us who are theater geeks.
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