Lob der Polizei, 2021
In collaboration with Markus Dorfmüller
Color photography, Tweets, Essay, 24 × 15 cm, 96 Pages, Offset print
In “Lob der Polizei,” (Praising the Police) the riot police becomes the object of an aesthetic-theoretical investigation in its very own right.
Documenting their deployment during the G20 summit in 2017, Markus Dorfmüller’s objective large-format photographs bear witness to the riot police’s undeniable presence in the city.
The title assigns a programmatic form to these images: what the riot police do in the streets of the city is deeply connected to modern urban culture and its economy. To make this connection visible, a complete database of the 20,000 Twitter posts under the hashtag #G20HAM17 was created, which served as a communication channel for the police force.
An essay on the genesis and presence of the riot police makes it recognizable as a principle of an “ethical” education of the crowd, whose body masses ought to be physically separated from the spaces of codified power.
Lob der Polizei, 2021
In collaboration with Markus Dorfmüller
Color photography, Tweets, Essay, 24 × 15 cm, 96 Pages, Offset print
In “Lob der Polizei,” (Praising the Police) the riot police becomes the object of an aesthetic-theoretical investigation in its very own right.
Documenting their deployment during the G20 summit in 2017, Markus Dorfmüller’s objective large-format photographs bear witness to the riot police’s undeniable presence in the city.
The title assigns a programmatic form to these images: what the riot police do in the streets of the city is deeply connected to modern urban culture and its economy. To make this connection visible, a complete database of the 20,000 Twitter posts under the hashtag #G20HAM17 was created, which served as a communication channel for the police force.
An essay on the genesis and presence of the riot police makes it recognizable as a principle of an “ethical” education of the crowd, whose body masses ought to be physically separated from the spaces of codified power.