Agricola de Cologne is a multidisciplinary media artist, creator of experimental films and videos, New Media curator and founder & director of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net living and working in Cologne/Germany. He had more than 100 solo exhibitions and since 2000 more than 300 participations in festivals and mediaart exhibitions. His mediaart projects received numerous prizes and awards.
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de
The Massada Manifestation by Agricola de Cologne
900x494 pxl, Photography, 2006
"The Massada Manifestation" refers to the artist's travel to the Dead Sea in 2005, when he visited the fortification of Massada, the final refuge of the Israelites before the Romans erased the Israelites as a people, just to find out that the last remaining Israelites had committed a collective suicide and escaped this way the killing or imprisoning through the Romans. Massada became this way a symbol for keeping one's dignity also in death. Agricola de Cologne took this symbolical surroundings for demonstrating his solidarity with those desperate Israelite fighters for creating a secret portrait of all those people (including himself) who never give up fighting for their dignity, which always will be a victory even if this would mean a failing in the end.
