KARL MARX DRESSING UP
A FASHION PROJECT BY RAINER GANAHL
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, September 2012,
special thanks to Friedemann Malsch, Christiane Mayerstoll. Denise Rigaud and Melanie Büchel
sound and special assitance Nikolaus Gohm, music: Maria Dada, Rainer Ganahl, Urban Tribe, Claude Young, Dj Bone, Lil Louis, Harry Swinger and varioius others, including lectures by David Harvey, computer voices reading texts by Karl Marx and Reports on Bangladeshi labor unrests etc.; photos Markus Gohm, Rainer Ganahl; eye wear: Oscar Magnuson; stylists: Kassandra and Rainer Ganahl and models: Marcel, Theresa, Veronika, Julia, Lena, Martin, Maximilian Gärtner, Simon, Rebecca, Sophia, Léandre Thievent; jewelry: Rainer Ganahl; choreography: Rainer Ganahl with additional idea by Kassandra and the models- additional sewing: Theresa christon
Assistance in design and execution : Luciano Raimondi; addiditonal assistance with high visibility jacket sign cutting: Lucia Prusa, Maria Rauch and Romana. video cameras: Marcel Marxer, Simon Neuraum, Rainer Ganahl
Jewelry made of porcelain and bronze: Assistance Joachim Baur, Werkstadt Graz and Jong-Hyun Park, Stuttgart
ps: Karl Marx stands for hope, social justice and razor clear analysis of social and working processes.
see a short video: (in the making)
part 1.
painting on a wall of a Karl Marx quote; installation of the stage; security person arrives, checks everybody and takes them away wiht my ROBES AROUND THE NECK. Installers are wearing my security reflective vests
karl marx on beauty: I am ugly but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of woman, therefore I am not ugly
part 2.
two person wearing just pages ripped out of CAPITAL by Marx and of THE CONDITONS OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND. by F. Engels where he describes the clotihng and shoe situations (barefeet) in Manchester around 1848. the movement of the models are imitating he movements of machines, sewing machines etc. . A computer voice reads the german text of the english edition.
book pages from DAS KAPITAL
book pages from FRIEDRICH ENGELS, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND.
sound: Nikolaus Gohm. Music was mixed with spoken words I selected in advance. I was video mixing a life camera operated by Simon Neuraum for life-video projection)
part 3.
these H&M dresses have only small textual additions - but significant one for the industry. A radio report on South eastern violence against female workers (4 were actually killed by security forces) makes up the sound. at that moment the models take up a protective position.
part 4.
three models come in long simple dresses that close with velcro solutions. pages by marx are added with blue ball pen drawings, markings and writings. one guy brings a scythe and two women bring hammers as props.
part 5.
two women in blue altered dresses purchased by GAP make up the main protagonists hammering and gesturing with their fist. 4 modesl in GAP t-shirts made in Cambodia sneak on on the wall. the back of their tshirts read " All AMERICAN, 1968". I altered the Tshirt. cut the neck off and turned them around, thus having space to write directly on the tshrits including the hourly vage in that country of production for GAP. two more GAP tshirt wearing models enter and join the blue dress ladies. the blue dresses have white additions showing parts of a hammer and sickle logo and parts of a fist.
part 6.
several WHAT S ON YOUR MIND tshirt have my answers to the question: INDONESIA, (where the tshirts were made for GAP) and others addtions
part 7.
protective vests with black additions (text and images) of mine including the sentences FASHION EQUALS SWEATSHOPS.
part 8
bleu H&M pants made in Bangladesh and modified by me. the models act as if students. The computer voice Anna reads are cladly edited version of Marx's Feuerbach Thesis.
david harvey lecture... (iexcellent marxist...)
part 9
a rather fast part with some dance formation. the models wear short dresses alos with velcro openings. Velcro is predominant in security closing and other practical clothing.
part 10
here... the models wear modified pink GAP pants and present my bronze and porcelain jewelry.
part 11
these two dresses are tailed by me (with the help of Luciano Raimondi). Red satin with book pages. on one skirt the pages are ripped and deformed.. on the ohter one the satin is underneath the book pages of CAPITAL. The INTERNATOINALE <a famous song remade by me) is played
part 12
the end with a FREE PUSSY RIOT skirt. she dancs to my punk peace, GOD PISS ON MY SCREEN .... (written after sex pistsl's god safe the queen). after that everybody joins that stage with various combinations
some individual shots made before the show:
jewelry
... my dj and sound specialist Nikolaus
Songs played written by me (rainer ganahl) and played / interpreted after my ideas by MARIA DADA (a real name):
EBAY HERO - WORKING CLASS -- after john lennon's working class hero.
EBAY / WORKING CLASS
FREEDOM / WORKING CLASS
EXPLOITATION / WORKING CLASS
READ FINE PRINT AND FIGHT / WORKING CLASS
CHEK OUT / WORKING CLASS
EBAY / WORKING CLASS
UNEMPLOYMENT / WORKING CLASS
0.99 p / WORKING CLASS
ENGELS / WORKING CLASS
CHEK OUT / WORKING CLASS
THERE AIN'T NO WORKING CLASS
THERE AIN'T NO WORKING CLAS
THERE IS ONLY AN EBAY CLASS
AN EBAY CLASS - AN EBAY CLASS
SHOP AND PENNY PINCH
EBAY / WORKING CLASS
SHOP AND PENNY PINCH
EBAY / WORKING CLASS
CHEK OUT / WORKING CLASS
CHEK OUT / WORKING CLASS
GO TO HELL
ENGELS - GO TO HELL
GO TO HELL
ANGELS - GOT TO HELL
ANGELS /
STAND UP AND PEE - after the Sexpistol's 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN'
STAND UP AND PEE
STAND UP AND BE
AN INDUSTRIAL SCREEN SAVER
AN UNEMPLOYED SCREEN SAVER
A WORKING CLASS SCREEN SAVER
GOD SAVE MY SCREEN
GO BE MY SCREEN
GOD PISS ON MY SCREEN
CONDITION YOUR SCREEN SAVER
WORK AS A SCREEN SAVER
BECOME A SCREEN SAVER
ALL ENGLAND A SCREEN SAVER
ALL ENGLAND A SCREEN SAVER
GOD SAVE MY SCREEN
GO BE MY SCREEN
GOD PISS ON MY SCREEN
STAND UP AND PEE
STAND UP AND BE
AN EBAY SCREEN SAVER
A 0.99 P SCREEN SAVER
A SHOPPING SAVER
GOD SAVE MY SCREEN
GO BE MY SCREEN
GOD PISS ON MY SCREEN
DIE INTERNATIONALE - after the Internatoinale
damned of the Earth
The State oppresses you !
stand up, stand up !
workers and unemployed
join the great party of ebay shoppers !
stand up, stand up !
The earth belongs only to men !
animals, plants and fish
you can go to reside elsewhere !
How much of your brain
have they consumed ?
How much of your money is left ?
These ravens, these vultures !
Spend it on ebay ! spend it on ebay
The screen will shine forever
The screen will shine forever
Stand up, stand up
And sing
DIE INTERNATIONALE (german pronounciation)
DIE INTERNATIONALE
the afterlife in the museum
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The curator Christiane Mayer-Stoll wears ROPE AROUND YOUR NECK now as jewelry - this is what it really is.
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