Games go on - Babi Jar 1941, 2012

Kurt Fleckenstein with video during Football European Champion League in Kiev, Wroclaw und Berlin

By the end of June the Soccer fever in Europe will be at the highest point; big and large screens will meet the crowds and turn around national flags. Meanwhile, during European Champion League there will be a special form of football public viewing in Kiev, Wroclaw, and also in Berlin. Video, which in its own way shows a football game, will be shown at the facades and in the inner spaces of remarkable art institutions of these towns. In this video ten players have their game without any football rules on a small soccer field, wearing the tricots of German National team in 1941. There is no referee and there are no gatekeepers and the players are playing with big enthusiasm and applaude to each goal.

At the same time a group of naked people is playing on the soccer field their own game. They are men and women of different age. They have a light ball and throw the ball to each other, like children play with balls. At regular intervals, however, one of the football players knocks down a naked person who gets in his way. The naked person falls on the ground and lays motionless. At this moment another naked person who stays at the edge of gamefield, enters the game and plays like a "substitute" with the other naked. The game is finished when all eleven naked players lay on the ground and the football player falls with big enthusiasm in their arms. The game is nearly finished and at once it starts again like in a loop. “The Games go on”

Instead of names and players numbers on the tricots there are dates of years and place names. (such as Babi Yar -1941; Hiroshima - 1945; Tibet -1959; Rwanda – 1994; Srebrenica – 1995; Chechnya – 1999; Syria – 2012; etc.)

The video will be made on a soccer field in Kiev. The video honors the memory of historical events, when in 1941 German occupiers shot down and cast into the canyon of Babi Jar more than 30 thousand Jewish people. Another reference to the death match (soccer game of German army against the players of a bread factory in Kiev) in 1942 can be seen.

The video is to be shown in the following Art Institutions:

From 19th June: M 17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kiev
From 20th June: WRO Art Centre Wroclaw /Breslau
From 21st June: ACUD Kunstverein, Berlin

Tags: Fleckenstein, Babi Yar, Hiroshima, Tibet, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Chechnya, Syria, European Champion League, Kiev, Wroclaw, Berlin
More information: www.kurt-Fleckenstein.com

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