—Betaversion
1.0, Leipzig-Plagwitz, 2004
Sound installation, copy-paste-transformed
speech of Rosa Luxemburg originally about the world political
situation
(Die weltpolitische Lage, 27. Mai 1913, Leipzig-Plagwitz)
spoken by: Barbara te Kock, sound mix: Lenz Schuster, time:
12 min
installed on the roof of Halle 14 / Stiftung Federkiel, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
also shown at
No. 3, Rote Zelle Munich and at "YBA", Gagosian Gallery Berlin |
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On the roof top of Hall
14, a former cotton spinning factory, an unknown person hoisted
a red worker flag. It becomes the anchor point for the exhibition
Schichtwechsel (shift change) that started on labor day and
circles the idea of the workers movement. With her sound installation
betaversion 1.0 Beate Engl gives a voice to this flag, that
is proclaiming a speech about the global art system. The source
for this transformed text is a speech by Rosa Luxemburg held
in Leipzig-Plagwitz on May 27th 1913 analyzing the world political
situation and agitating for the boldness of the proletarian
masses in the fight against the breakneck enterprises of the
capitalists, that partition the world. Beate Engl keeps the general
structure of the speech and transforms it by simply exchanging
words: The worker and proletarian becomes the artist and cultural
producer, the capitalist and social democrat becomes the gallerist
and curator and the international wars become the global biennials
and group shows. Megaphone speakers, red flag and public on
the grass roof add to a demonstration like atmosphere.
> download text as PDF (German version only, 120 KB)
> audio excerpt
as MP3, 808 KB |
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