VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: STUDIO WORK: MAUERSTRAßE MAPS

20111107

STUDIO WORK: MAUERSTRAßE MAPS

Documentation of graphic works in progress printed RE: Occupy Wall Street. The motif, "Ihr seid

nicht umsonst gefallen" (1914-1918) by Georg Kolbe, is also used in Laibach Kunst works and is most recognizable from the Laibach LP Occupied Europe 1985.

The photographs, taken between silkscreened layers, add an element of cartographic

illusion to Kolbe's stoic warriors:

Mauerstraße Occupied (detail, in progress)

Silkscreen on found object: atlas page

Variable edition

15½ x 11 inches

2011

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.