Artist Natascha Stellmach To Smoke Kurt Cobain’s Ashes & Marijuana In An Exhibition (Pictures)
Posted on October 4, 2008
German artist Natascha Stellmach says she has former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s cremated ashes, and plans to smoke them along with marijuana in a joint for an art exhibit in Berlin.
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Kurt Cobain’s ashes were reportedly stolen from Courtney Love’s home. Courtney Love was said to be distraught and suicidal after her ex-husband’s ashes were taken.
Natascha Stellmach was questioned about how she had acquired the late Kurt Cobain’s cremated ashes and she said: “That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free.”
Stelmach says smoking the ashes “represents both the completion of the conceptual project and the final act in an exhibition bound to provoke wide public debate.”
Stellmach’s five part exhibition is called “Set Me Free”, with a final act which she claims “will release Cobain from the media circus and into the ether”, reports Uncut.
“Stellmach’s work comprises a ‘death cycle’ of five pieces. The first, a suicide contemplation, entitled It is Black in Here, is a sound piece, written and read by the artist. It was recorded onto a specifically pressed record and is played on a vintage record player. The six-minute poetic meditation on death’s proximity ends with the word ‘gone’.”
“‘Near Death Experience,’ is a text-based work where Kurt Cobain, Adolf Hitler, Diane Arbus and the Brothers Grimm meet in a twilight zone.
Two more works, ‘Black Scan’ and ‘Untitled,’ accentuate the purgatory to which dead celebrities are condemned―a large photographic print has the words “Set me free” written in the ashes of Cobain―preempting the climactic work.
In ‘Gone,’ Stellmach presents a joint containing Cobain’s ashes, which is held in an antique case engraved with the work’s title. Stellmach intends to smoke this joint at a secret Berlin location with patrons of her work.
It represents both the completion of the conceptual project and the final act in an exhibition bound to provoke wide public debate.”
WTF? Now is this crazy or what? The exhibit is set for October 11th, but it makes you wonder if Courtney Love with put a stop to it? Let us know your thoughts!
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5 comments
“TASTES” DIFFER, folks!!
Kurt Cobain was to talented to be smoked as a joint! like wtf!!! this is sick!
like i wouldn’t like someone to be inhaling me when im ashes. yeah he was famouse and yeah he is has a huge story about him. but still he is the same as u and me. really. like thats just as bad as eating dead ppl.
i can’t belive how sick this person is. she just wants to get her name out there 4 ppl to see. :@
well i hate this so much.
-rebecca 17
This STUPID woman has NO RIGHT to even be in possesion of Kurt Cobains ashes. I think this woman should be shot dead and burnt so I can roll HER up with some weed and smoke her! The whole idea is sick and twisted beyond my belief!!! Those ashes should be returned to their rightfull owner!
now this bitch should watch her back.
so its a piece of cake 4 me!
i will search night and day, and when i do find her i will make her smoke like hell!!
stupid ass bitch.
holland lies next to germany
Return his ashes to his fam,and show a little respect!!!!!!!!
RETARD!!!
Ok. This fuckin bitch deserves to burn in hell. And I’m not passively saying that. If she doesn’t end up in Hell, I will find her ghost and send her there myself. I fucking respect Curt Cobain, and even though he might not have been the best, he certainly was talented. And this bitch is gonna smoke him? WTF>:( Kraut bitch.