![]() ![]() ![]() In a slight iteration of the plan they sawed it apart and offered the pieces on eBay, this time to much greater success. Soon after they realized that, due to their limited pocket money, Tokio Hotel’s fans would not be able to purchase an item like this in one piece. ![]() They came up with the idea of removing the shelter and putting it up on eBay, somewhat unsuccessfully. Now this is what I’ve been told about what happened: due to the band’s huge popularity with teenagers, the shelter soon became somewhat of a favourite destination to worship the band, much to the annoyance of the local residents who had to cope with a torrent of emo kids rolling in from all directions on a daily basis. In this case it is a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where the teen pop band Tokio Hotel were waiting for their school bus every morning. Part of Thomas Demand’s wonderful show Nationalgalerie, “Haltestelle” (2009) is a very recent work, as usual a large-scale photograph of a life-size paper model resembling a space of cultural significance. ![]()
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