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JEDEM DAS SEINE
performance action/video/photos , 2017 / part of Bauhaus project "(UN)Sounds of Buchenwald" in cooperation with Gedenkstätte Buchenwald / |
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The gate of the former concentration camp Buchenwald, faced towards the inside, bears the inscription “Jedem das Seine”. Through planned performative action the gate should have been taken off the hinges and rotated in a way that the inscription changes its facing and becomes properly readable from the side when entering the camp. Turning the position of the inscription would have placed it into a different context, which would provide a new interpretation of reading the proverb. The maxim, that should stand as a simple and memorable guide for living, would fulfil its meaning by serving as a reminder faced to the free side of the former camp.
As a substitute for the planned two-channel video documentation of the action, manipulated photographs displays replacement of the inscription of the gate, including sights from in- and outside, in a way that an observer can visualize and distinguish the difference of meaning accomplished by creating a new context of observation. |
All images on this page © MFA-Program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and © Saša Tatić.