VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: 2009/11

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STUDIO WORK: AXE TO GRIND

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EXHIBITION: RISE & FALL: 11.9.89

A revolutionary art and music event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Part art installation and DJ event, Rise & Fall features artwork displayed from 19 countries and 19 states.

Rise&Fall events take place November 4-December 1, 2009 in New York, Miami, Boston, Providence, Washington, DC and Los Angeles. The Embassy of the Republic of Germany Washington, DC and Kodak are the official sponsors of Rise&Fall. For more information on this year’s theme,'Freedom Without Walls,' for the German Missions in the United States, please visit: www.germany.info/withoutwalls.

A Difference in Stars: Brandenburg Gate

Chromogenic photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive

10 x 10 inches

2009

Exhibiton catalogue available here

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.