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
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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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