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Korpys/Löffler: Eure Kinder werden so wie wir (Your kids will be like we are), 2007
The work of Korpys/Löffler, once again, gives an example of the macro level of our world, depicting transnational power, and local resistance. Korpys/Löffler observe the fringes of the confrontations between political power and protest movements, be it in Gorleben, be it in Heiligendamm. In the streets of Gorleben, a small assembly of opponents of nuclear power organizes ritualized sit-ins to protest the transport of nuclear wastes. Heiligendamm – famous Baltic sea resort, hosting the meeting of the G-8 in May 2007 behind 13 kilometres of barbed wire to keep off protestors. In both cases, a group of mostly teenage (or at least still pretty young) demonstrators is confronted by an enormous array of technical, police and military force. The confrontation between the democratically legitimized freedom of expression and the representations of political power (and culture) remind us of the fight between David and Goliath, illustrate the unequal chances of predefined winners and losers.
The images of Korpys/Löffler do not remind us of the usual TV news nor of the usual images of protesting activists. They show helicopters and demonstrators, insects and earthworms, all focused on equally. An aesthetics one might be used to in documentaries, restrained and controlled, in suspense. It’s the end that might be viewed as some kind of disclosure, the rhythm of the staccato of the protestors repeating themselves shouting “ Your kids will be like we are”: It proclaims, heralds a hope for triumph that will be achieved, intrinsically, but only tomorrow over those in power today.
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