Ved Hegnet ( At the Fence ) 2019
Duration 18:19 min. Single screen video / sound installation / hornhøjtalere / hegn
Efter mere en 30 år efter Berlinmurens fald, bygges der hegn og mure som aldrig før. Som en modreaktion på globaliseringens grænseoverskridende karakter bygges mure mod migration, smugling, terrorisme osv., med Trumps meget omtalte mur ved den mexicanske grænse som den mest omtalte. Hegn og mure der spærrer for forestillingen om det grænseløse samfund, og for forsvindingspunktet og det åbne blik.
Ved Hegnet, der tager udgangspunkt i det nylig opsatte næsten 70 km lange vildsvinehegn ved den dansk-tyske grænse og minder os derved om en verden, hvor hegn, mure og overvågningsteknologi er med til at påvirke hvordan vi færdes, forstår og kommunikerer. Dialog, demokrati og samarbejde tilsidesættes til fordel for kontrol og overvågning af det enkelte individ. Videoprojektionen og dens langsomme panorering vandret langs hegnet, skoven og landskabet stimulerer forestillinger og fortællinger om det mystiske og eksotiske, det vi ikke kender mens hornspeakers afspiller lydklip fra forskellige statsmagters militær og propaganda musik insisterer på en subtil politisk agenda.
Uddrag fra Hegn, politisk propaganda og akustisk aktivisme i Ved Hegnet pamflet af Karin Petersen Ekstern lektor ved Æstetik og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet:
”En grænse, som race, er en frygtelig fiktion” siger den mexicanske digter Wendy Trevino i sin digtsamling Cruel Fiction fra 2017, [1] i forbindelse med præsident Trumps opførelse af sin berygtede mur mellem USA og Mexico. En grænse er i Trevinos optik en kunstig konstruktion, ligesom forestillingen om egentlige 'racer', hvor statsmagter forsøger at opretholde en bestemt fiktion omkring et politisk regime, ved som oftest at kontrollere diversiteten og marginaliserede menneskers identitet.
[1]Wendy Trevino: Cruel Fiction. CA: Commune Editiions, 2017. Se Mikkel Nørregaard Jørgensen: ”Horizons without borders: Wendy Trevino's Cruel Fiction and lthe Utopian Poetry of the Commune, Studies in Arts and Humanities, vol 05/issue01/2019
The video and sound installation At the Fence, is taking it starting point at the recently erected wild boar fence along the Danish-German border. The video constructs and thematises various imaginary, fictive spaces around it. One fictive space is the romantic notion of the forest and wild landscape fable animals/masked figures. Another fictive space is the fiction itself that the fence will in fact be able to keep out ‘desirable’ visitors and ‘others’.
But the most important fictive space that At the Fence thematises, emphasises and dwells on is that referred to by music. First the wild boar fence is transformed into an acoustic border where unending row of loudspeakers blast their individual propaganda and military music from all over the world and turn the fence info a power struggle between regimes, despots and cultures – between those on one side of the fence and those on the other. But the endless rows of loudspeakers and endless propaganda music are interrupted by two hooded persons/activists presenting a counter response in the shape of small handmade mobile phone amplifiers that they place on the fence bordering on ‘the others’ trying to demand a completely different type of persuasive, collective voice and sound : namely one that crosses borders in a solidary mobilisation of emotions and protest.
Udstillinger
At the Fence, Viborg kunsthal 2019
Musik som indgår I Ved Hegnet
Chilean Dictadorship Song: Mi general Augusto Pinochet /
hyldest til Augusto Pinochet, der var leder af militærdiktaturet, der regerede Chile fra 1973 til 1990
Communism Song /
a Red song mashup for the 90 anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
Generally it's your standard Red song with lines like, "The women love watching the Red Army," "Praise be to the great Mao Zedong," and, "Cut the enemy's heads off with our machetes."
Battotai March (抜刀隊) /
One of the earliest of Japanese marches is the Review March (分列行進曲) composed in 1886 by Charles Leroux, an officer with the French Army serving as an advisor to the Imperial Japanese Army. Originally two separate marches based on Japanese melodies—Fusouka (扶桑歌) and Battotai (抜刀隊), inspired by the Satsuma Rebellion and reportedly a favorite song of the Emperor Meiji. It soon became a popular band standard, with the Imperial Japanese Army adopting it as their signature march. After World War II the JGSDF and the Japanese police would adopt the march, where it continues to be a core part of their repertoire.
Mehter Band - Turkish Military Music 2011 /
military music performed by the Mehter Band of the elite Ottoman corps, the Janissaries
Romanian Patriotic Song - Ceausescu 1989 /
Pionieri soimii patriei (pioneers and hawks of the country)
The East is Red: March of the People's Liberation Army 《东方红》中国人民解放军进行曲/
音乐·舞蹈·史诗《东方红》中国人民解放军进行曲 1965 /
United States of America - "Over There" /
Over There" is a 1917 hit song written by George M. Cohan, that was popular with the United States military and public during both world wars. It was a patriotic song designed to galvanize American young men to enlist in the army and fight the "Hun". The song is best remembered for a line in its chorus: "The Yanks are coming.
The Mind and Spirit of Cyberspace Security /
China’s Internet censorship agency now has it’s own choral anthem, a song titled “The Mind and Spirit of Cyberspace Security.” The New York Times reported that the lyrics to the song — which praises the agency’s commitment “to the global village, evolving it into its most beautiful form” — were written by Wang Pingjiu, who also wrote the lyrics for the opening song to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In the song, employees proudly declare not only loyalty to their work, but that it is transforming the world into a better place. Lyrics include:
“With loyalty and devotion, we watch over our domain day and night”
“Contributing to the global village, evolving it into its most beautiful form”
“In this universe, as hundreds of rivers flow across all of China, loyally searching for the sea, they carry with them the great Chinese culture and measure China’s greatness.”
East German Military Parade 1989 Ehrenparade der NVA Volksarmee 1949 1989 40 JAHRE DDR /
Hauptstadt der DDR. The last show of strength of the socialist state of East Germany, and perhaps the last great parade seen in Europe. 1000's of Volksarmee troops from all over the nation, which took part alongside 100s of vehicles including special forces. Perhaps one of the last glances at a Europe now gone, this parade took place at a time of great upheaval and political change.
Iraq Patriotic Song /
A patriotic song from the time of Abdul Karim Qasim (1958-1968).
Lenins Kino Pravda, 1924 /
a short and old soviet propaganda movie
Our answer to the gloating capitalist world
“May Lenins banner ever bless us
And ever enlighting all our folk”
…. etc
Patriotic Pro-Gaddafi Libyan Military Song / Propaganda song /
Oberst Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi var statsleder i Libyen fra 1969–2011. Indtil 2011 bestemte han som revolutionsfører Libyens politik, men i oktober 2011 mistede han magten til oprørshæren.
July 27 March The Korean Armistice Agreement /
March i forbindelse med Den koreanske våbenhvileaftale, der medførte en fuldstændig ophør af fjendtlighederne under Korea-krigen. Det blev underskrevet af den amerikanske hærløjtnant William Harrison, der repræsenterer FN's kommando (UNC), den nordkoreanske general Nam Il, der repræsenterer den koreanske folkehær (KPA), og den kinesiske folks frivillige hær (PVA). Våbenhvilen blev underskrevet den 27. juli 1953 og var designet til at "sikre en fuldstændig ophør af fjendtlighederne og af alle væbnede styrker i Korea, indtil en endelig fredelig løsning er opnået."
BigBang - BANG BANG BANG - FHD Fancam - Prudential Center /
Seoul resumed loudspeaker broadcasts into North Korea on Friday in response to Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test. The broadcasts included criticism of Kim Jong Un as well as recent South Korean hit songs.
Amid the issue of war between South Korea and North Korea, there is news that is quite ridiculous liver. On the border between the two countries, South Korean soldiers conduct propaganda by using giant speakers, which are directed to North Korea. Through the speakers, South Korean troops play the songs of K-Pop their mainstay. Propaganda action aims to promote how much progress the country South Korea compared with North Korea. The same action was made by South Korea in 2009. Played a variety of songs that came from artists famous K-Pop, like the Big Bang, SNSD and IU. They play the Big Bang's new song titled 'BANG BANG BANG', then the song 'Genie' of the SNSD and the 'Heart' of IU.
Saddam Hussein Dabka Song /
Tribute song. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti var Iraks præsident og diktator fra 16. juli 1979 til 9. april 2003, hvor han blev afsat under Irakkrigen.
Viva Mexico - MEXICO IN WORLD WAR II / 16mm propaganda sound film /
RKO Radio Pictures produced this WWII film to show Mexico's efforts to support the USA in the war.
La Banda Militare: Italian and International Military Music /
1 № نظامی مارسEsecuzione della Banda Musicale dell'Esercito della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran (ارکستر جمهوری اسلامی از ارتش ایران). /
Womans march I Washinton DC – live footage sound /
Kvindernes marts var en verdensomspændende protest den 21. januar 2017, dagen efter indvielsen af præsident Donald Trump. Spændingerne steg på grund af udsagn fra Donald Trump, der af mange betragtes som anti-kvinder eller på anden måde stødende. Det var den største enkeltdagsprotest i U.S. historie.
DNC 2016 Day 2: Singing Protesters /
Women gather at the Hart Senate Office Building in the U.S. Capitol complex to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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