Don't Hug Hear / Stiege Hills, Blosnegg, Silandro, Italy
For the exhibition "Don't Hug Fear", the artist Ida Westh-Hansen created various talismans, whose protective power enabled her to safely and deeply explore the area around Blosnegg. The artist spent a few days in the "Stiege Hills" tree house gallery, where anyone interested could visit her - and attend various simple shamanistic rituals.The word "talisman" is borrowed from the Italian "talismano", which goes back to the Arabic "ṭillasm" and means "magic image".A shaman interacts with the spirit world through an altered state of consciousness, which he/she can obtain through monastic seclusion, sensory deprivation, fasting, daydreaming, repetitive verbal suggestions, fire watching, hyperventilation, dancing or drugs. StiegeHills is the new location of Stiege13 Vienna in form of a treehouse gallery located near Silandro, Italy