BERLIN DAYZ
Berlin Frames: Histrionics Hydra – Theatralik Scherben
13 Sep – 07 Nov
Fri 17 Sep 6.00pm – 9.00pm, Opening night
Fracture Gallery of Federation Square
Atrium
Free Admission
Informations: +61 3 99251717
Danius Kesminas is the lyricist and co-lead singer of the ‘concept-art (heritage)-rock cover-band’ HISTRIONICS. His mechanised life-sized tableaux of band members commemorates the 10th anniversary of these legendary monsters of pedagogical art-rock.
The installation features a new music video of The HISTRIONICS performing their version of German cult band Ton Steine Scherben's 1972 renegade anthem Rauch Haus. This song is about the occupation of the former Bethanien-Krankenhaus in Kreuzberg from the perspective of the squatting anarchists. The title derives from the name the squatters gave the former hospital after the radical activist Georg von Rauch, who was shot by police in 1971. Edited by film maker/artist Antoine Prum and produced by writer/curator Boris Kremer, both based in Berlin, the video shows The HISTRIONICS performing before historical footage of riots and protests around the eponymous Rauch Haus. The notorious revolutionary song features the refrain 'Das ist unser Haus', which became a slogan of defiance and resistance to gentrification.
Curated and presented by RMIT Gallery. Live performances throughout.
