An installation in the basement of the old police station in Offenbach thematizing police violence and forms of resistance and protest. A true-to-scale barrier block, or anti-terror block, stands in the middle of the room. It is not made of concrete, as usual, but of soft foam, and in this way resists the brutal image that the blocks create when lined up in public spaces.
Footage of demonstrations and police violence is shown on several screens, original archive pictures of the May Day demonstration where Günter Sare was killed by the police can be seen on the ground.
For the installations with audio scenes “I thought I had screamed, but then nobody heard it” by Malin Lamparter, I created various installations.
It was about the culture of protest during Corona: What form of protest is regulated in this situation and which can take place? What are the possible reasons why the memorial ceremony in Hanau had to be canceled despite the hygiene concept, while the anti-corona demonstration in Berlin was able to take place despite expected violations of the regulations? And how is the protest culture developing under the influence of the pandemic?
To investigate these questions, we worked on 5 installations that deal with different protest movements of the Corona period. What are their strategies? And how did society, politics and the police react?