video, English, 16:9, color,
10:54 mins., 2018

The Insurrection Will Not Be Tweeted. Today’s Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron, video stills, 2018

The Insurrection Will Not Be Tweeted. Today’s Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron

In 2016 a youtube video, shared a million times, showed a Syrian refugee, who sung a song upon his arrival on the shore of a Greek island, whereas a friend, circling around him, filmed him with his smartphone. Is it possible to “share” images and music, without appropriating them? Is it enough for us to “like” something? To these questions, the video tries to give an artistic answer, featuring Ina Wudtke’s performance of an update of Gil Scott-Heron’s famous poem.

The Insurrection Will Not Be Tweeted, final rehearsal HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2018