Since our Bilderberg office is being BOMBARDED with questions by people who want to know more about this year's "zine" project for the Bilderberg Konferenz, here's a quick explanation.
"Hanswursts Hochzeit" is an unfinished drama written by the young J.W.Goethe around 1775 and consists mostly of a prologue, some fragmentary scene ideas and a loooooooong list of funny rude character names, like "Hans Arsch von Rippach" for example, or "Schwager Mistbeet, or "Tante Ursel mit dem kalten Loch". The initial idea for this project was to take these names and pair them with the type of grotesque portraits that Basil Wolverton so excelled in. It was initially just intended to be a little side project, a quick zine with a series of ugly faces, but when we invited other artists to participate, it just grew and grew, and at some point we realized that we would actually end up drawing all 133 of Goethe's characters. So we decided that we should also adapt the prologue, just to give the portraits more context, and then of course the next step was to to actually use the entire text, even the odds and ends, the half-finished verses and vague story ideas.
So now it's done, and the final result is truly weird little gem indeed. Like "Tintina", last year's collaborative Bilderberg project, this one is far more than the sum of it's parts, and I think connoisseurs of the unusual will surely get a kick out of it.
