Sven Lütticken: Texts and Other Projects: Let's Fake History

Let's Fake History

Texte zur Kunst no. 86 (June 2012) contains a short text of mine titled "Let's Fake History." It's a response to the current Berlin Biennale, but it does not claim to be a review. In many ways, this show is beyond reviewing. Instead, I comment on one egregious aspect of this Biennale: its historicist (re)presentation of "Big History," particularly of Polish-Jewish-German history, as well as of contemporary Occupy activism.

Image: A relaxed moment after the Battle of Berlin, which (in its reenacted form) raged for a full twenty minutes.

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