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About Maria Pask’s Beautiful City:
In the lyrics of the song Beautiful City from the 1971 musical
Godspell, the vocalists exclaim that they will build a city not out
of conventional plaster and stone but instead out of love, dreams,
and the declaration of their beliefs. The location in which the
protagonists share their enthusiasm for a new way forward is
outside on the streets. The city is used as a metaphor for the
construction of a new beginning, new ideas, and new connections.
Once a week, during the exhibition period of skulptur projekte
münster 07, different speakers gave a public talk in a tent in a park
in the city of Münster. The speakers were experts of various
religions, who presented their respective religious beliefs in res-
ponse to a series of questions the artist put to them beforehand.
Outside the tent a few young people set up camp, hanging around
for the next speaker to arrive. They were asked to take on the role
of believers (or skeptics), their constant presence literally creating
an expectation of what was to come.
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