Friday June 29 14:00, die Klau Mich Show at Ständehaus, Kassel. Guests: Art & Language

02:52 Samir Kandil

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, dear spectators here in the Ständehaus in Kassel. Ladies and gentlemen, meine Damen und Herren, in front of the local TV screen, and dear spectators all over the planet, who watch us through the world-wide web, welcome to this fourth edition of the Klau Mich Show! Welcome.

So, ladies and gentlemen, and specially our TV spectators, I know you have been asking yourselves frequently in the last days: is this what we are watching right now a work of art?
I assure you it is, yes.
You have doubts?
I have heard somebody?
No, not somebody who wanted to give an open critic.
I assure you it is. I know, there are no signs announcing it. If no signs announce it, How are you supposed to know?
Well, it is listed in the catalogue.
It has been funded as such.
And, I must say so; you cannot prove it is not!
(Thank you Marcel!)

But, if it is a work of art, why does KLAU MICH never talk about art or propose any art activity?

Well, to silence critics once and for all, this fourth KLAU MICH program will be, integrally, totally, fully, completely, about art. And I promise it will be about more that that. It will be about Art – and Language.

In the wide, intelligent, all-encompassing program about anti-institutional movements that KLAU MICH presents during these 100 days of documenta(13), we have not many visual artists invited as guests – I give you that. In fact, we have invited just four to the shows, but the four we have invited are, the best.

In our opening program on June 8, we dealt with Gustav Metzger: “The Last Political German Artist”. And today we have “a cabbalistic, esoteric and disturbing movement” with us, the complete resistance, without concession, without compromise, radical art that will never be institutionalized:

Ladies and gentlemen, Art & Language – Mel Ramsden and Michael Baldwin.

(Applause)