Don't Hug Hear
For the exhibition "Don't Hug Fear", the artist Ida Westh-Hansen created various talismans, whose protective power enabled her to safely and deeply explore the area around Blosnegg. The artist spent a few days in the "Stiege Hills" tree house gallery, where anyone interested could visit her - and attend various simple shamanistic rituals.

The word "talisman" is borrowed from the Italian "talismano", which goes back to the Arabic "ṭillasm" and means "magic image".

A shaman interacts with the spirit world through an altered state of consciousness, which he/she can obtain through monastic seclusion, sensory deprivation, fasting, daydreaming, repetitive verbal suggestions, fire watching, hyperventilation, dancing or drugs.
StiegeHills is a new location of Stiege13 Vienna in form of a treehouse gallery located near Silandro, Italy