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Article: Congo on the Thames.(FRONT PAGE)(The Double Club )
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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NEWS COMING OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO has only gotten worse in the past year, focusing on the brutal ongoing rebellion in the eastern provinces. Yet in The Double Club, a new project inspired by that country, Stockholm-based German artist Carsten HOller sidesteps such matters as massacres and refugees. Instead, he has imported more life-affirming aspects of Congolese culture to London by opening a temporary restaurant and nightclub that offers Congolese and European food as well as dance music.
Holler, 47, first traveled to Kinshasa in 2001 and was struck by its "electric" culture, he says. Located in a Victorian warehouse near the Angel tube ...