Christoph Draeger

For my installation art class, I had to research an installation artist.  I found Christoph Draeger to be very inspirational.  He bases all of his works off of disasters and catastrophes.  He also is inspired by Hollywood films and mass media.  His work is very crowded and all over the place, but there is a since of organization in his madness.  It is very easy to see the effort that went into each of his pieces.  I really enjoyed the piece called Black September.  It is an installation that recreated the 1972 terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team by the terrorist group called Black September.  It was the first widely shown terrorist attack on television.  The details that went into this recreation amazed me.  He used live models as the dead bodies on the ground and the space he created for the incident looked exactly like the hotel room that it happend in.  Also, I feel that the television in the room that played the recorded footage from that day gave this whole installation more emotion.  It made it real and in your face.  This is what Draeger wants.  He wants to evoke certain emotions from people, good or bad.  he also wants people to realize that although these disasters happen every day, we are powerless to stop it.