VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: STUDIO WORK: Mauerstraße Occupation

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STUDIO WORK: Mauerstraße Occupation

The Mauerstraße Wall Street Occupation edition: ‘Mauerstraße’ literally translates to ‘Wall Street’- a Berlin street that converges with Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße at what was once Checkpoint Charlie, a crossing point in the Berlin Wall. The motif, as explained in an earlier post, is also adapted from the Laibach LP “Occupied Europe” featuring a cartographic rendition of a Georg Kolbe sculpture. The usage of NSK / Laibach Kunst themes is becoming more appropriate (and prophetic?) in light of current Occupation activities worldwide.

Mauerstraße Occupation
(Your Are Now Leaving the American Sector)

dAVID K.Silkscreen on found object: atlas page
Edition: 30 (variable)
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.