slide projection, 81 slides, 2010
language
Cover of Francis Fukuyama’s 1991 book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, 2010
The video shows a recording / casting session with a native German speaking actor of non-European descent who is speaking Karl Kraus’ text ‘In These Great Times’ in English and German.
These texts are produced from linguistic negative casts in the form of the metal engraving plates which, quite literally, set into relief the darker, historical context and frame for the museum collections.
A roll call of over 500 museums and collectors holding the famous Benin artifcats taken by the British in 1897 during the punitive expedition in Benin City and now dispersed all over the world in major museums