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Fly Democracy

Fly Democracy
Fly Democracy
Gesamtansicht, Installationsansicht
Fly Democracy
Oliver Ressler, Fly Democracy, 2007, Video (Farbe, Ton, Loop), Flugblätter, Blattmaße: 29,7 × 21 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11921
© Oliver Ressler
Foto: Oliver Ressler
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Fly Democracy

  • Fly Democracy
  • Date2007
    • Artist Oliver Ressler (geboren 1970 in Knittelfeld)
  • Object typeVideoinstallation
  • MediumVideo (color, sound, loop), flyers
  • Dimensions
    Film/Video-Dauer: 5 Min.
  • Signatureunsigned
  • Inventory number11921
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineAnkauf aus Mitteln der Galerienförderung des Bundes

  • In his artistic and activist practice, Oliver Ressler addresses pressing issues related to democracy, economics, migration, and ecology, seeking to expose not only their structural causes but also forms of resistance and possibilities for action. The video in the multipart installation Fly Democracy refers to a military campaign by the US armed forces during the early stages of their interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Alongside countless bombs, the military dropped leaflets containing messages for the local population. These included warnings to avoid military targets as well as purported justifications for the attacks. Appropriating these means, Ressler designed ten leaflets presenting arguments in favor of participatory democracy. The idea of direct involvement in decision-making stands in deliberate contrast to the model of representative democracy as practiced in the United States and other neoliberal capitalist states.
    • 2021 Ankauf Galerie Charim, Wien
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