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YAO QINGMEI 姚清妹
b. 1982, works and lives in Paris, France and Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
YAO QINGMEI 姚清妹
2012
single-channel video
audio and subtitle documentation of the performance
12 minutes
Edition of 5 + 2AP
YQM_1554

"The State oppresses and the law cheats, Tax bleeds the unfortunate; No duty is imposed on the rich, The rights of the poor is an empty phrase.” Strangely enough, although the third verse of the Internationale really exists and is supposedly anarchist in intent, it is never sung during demonstrations. Singing the hymn out aloud in a famous tax haven like Monaco where local inhabitants are unlikely to have ever heard it before gives voice to truths that are kept hidden, despite the action itself being absurd and naive in such an imposing setting. Broadcasting the song through a loud-hailer, our car went twice around.

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Related Exhibitions:
Under the Stars: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Hannah Arendt's Passing, Goethe-Institut, Beijing 10.11, 2025 -12.31, 2025


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