VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: STUDIO WORK: OCCUPIED STATES OF WALL STREET

20111118

STUDIO WORK: OCCUPIED STATES OF WALL STREET

Second edition of Wall Street Occupational hazard prints. This series utilizes the Laibach song title, "Wirtschaft ist Tot" (The Economy is Dead), along with the previous NSK motiv:

Occupied States: Wirtschaft ist Tot

david K after IRWIN / Laibach Kunst

Silkscreen on found object (atlas page)

edition: 30 (variable)

15 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.