Glastonbury 2023 will have a new area made entirely out of vintage cars that will imitate Stonehenge, organisers have confirmed. It will be the festival's second imitation of the historic West Country monument located some 45 miles away.
Located within Williams Green, 'Carhenge' will be assembled out of 24 mutated classic cars on top of each other to form a replica of the landmark. Joe Rush is the brainchild of the new installation founder of the Mutoid Waste Company, a performance arts collective that has been Glastonbury Festival's artistic collaborator for 38 years.
Carhenge celebrates the underground and punk ethos and each car is a tribute to those heroines and heroes from the margins of society. The installation will be illuminated by a show of lights created by Ed Warren and soundtracked by Fulu Miziki.
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At the festival on Thursday, June 22, a dance troupe of 'African Mutoids' from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, will perform at the centre of the henges dressed in scrap and playing percussion instruments made of rubbish.
It will be the first time seven of his major installations will be shown together in the history of the festival, this year from June 21 to 25. The concept of Carhenge was first shown at Glastonbury in 1987 on a much smaller scale. Joe is also the brains behind the iconic giant mechanical Phoenix atop the Pyramid stage first launched in 2013.
Carhenge will be the second 'stone circle' on Worthy Farm, where there is a megalithic monument situated in a valley lying between two low sandstone ridges at the far south of the area enclosed by the Glastonbury Festival. Historic accounts trace the monument - comprising about 20 stones ranging from over 2.5 metres to 1.5 metres in height - back to 1992. It is described as a sacred space and has become a place for festivalgoers to watch the sunrise.
In 2007, Banksy made his very own version of a stone circle out of portaloos named 'Portaloohenge'. Connected Cube created a version out of illuminated giant cubes in 2010.
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