Art Safari - Kunst als Abenteuer

MAURIZIO CATTELAN
　　is the court jester of the art world and the cartoonist of conceptualism. Cattelan refuses to meet Ben, so Ben brings Cattelans sculptures to life and sends them on missions to put questions to the artist and his doubles.
　　GREGOR SCHNEIDER
　　has been transforming his childhood home into an artistic house of horrors since he was 16. Ben is convinced that Schneiders art indicates a terrible childhood trauma, but the artist would rather talk about formal theories.
　　MATTHEW BARNEY
　　makes art on a Hollywood scale with videos, sculptures, photographs and Vaseline. His Cremaster Cycle is the art world’s answer to Star Wars, only with meanings that are much more obscure…
　　WIM DELVOYE
　　is the world’s rudest artist. Cloaca is a work of art and a machine which reproduces the human digestive system. You put food in one end and faeces comes out the other. But is this s**t for real?
　　SOPHIE CALLE
　　is the Grand Dame of French contemporary art. Her art often involves following a set of rules or executing a task devised by someone else. She wants Ben to come up with an artistic idea for her to do…
　　TAKASHI MURAKAMI
　　is Japan’s most successful contemporary artist. He makes super-sized cartoons and toys inspired by Japanese Manga comics. His art may look superficial and commercialised, but behind it lies a theory about the history of postwar Japan.
　　SANTIAGO SIERRA
　　is Spain’s anti-capitalist artist and one of the world’s most radical artists. Ben travels with him to the heavily militarised border between North and South Korea, and then to globalisation hub of Dubai. but there’s friction between artist and TV presenter…