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Marx e ancora Marx, / Marx and again Marx, Interview with Toni Negri underhouse arrest in Rome, 2001, 2001

3 photographs, 30 x 40 inches, 2 hours 35 min video Baumgartner Gallery, New York

Video interview in Rome during Antonio Negri's time in partial imprisonement for allegedly involvement of 1970's terrorism . For whathe really was inmprisoned:nobody really knows?. Negri's personal and intellectual history is as interesting as his books. An unedited and so far non-proof read transcription is available.

 

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Rudi Gurtin, my travel agent, a Stalinist in New York in the Year 2000, New York 2000, 2000

(2 photographs, 30 x 40 inches, video 62 min Baumgartner Gallery, New York

For this piece, I photographed and interviewed my travel agent who tells a conflicting but intriguing life story about him being a Stalinist. Historical facts he rejects as "American propaganda". He himself and his family have been victimized by the very system he continues to promote. Born before the war in Eastern Euorpe to a Jewish Russian family he was put into a Nazi Concentration Camp for several years, grew up under Stalin and emigrated to Israel in 1977. He moved to New York in 1981 where he still is working as a travel agent. His tiny office in Manhatten is covered with Soviet nostalgia including a series of pictures of Stalin.

 

If you identified with Karl Marx at one point in your life and it has changed your life and if you are interested in being portrayed by me please, contact me.

 

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