#blacktivist, 2015

The artwork pledge

• NO POVERTY
• ZERO HUNGER
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Archive
• Berlin
• Collectivism
• Colonialism
• Europe
• Everyday Life
• Fascism
• Germany
• Gun violence
• Indigenous Peoples
• Police Brutality
• Racial Segregation
• Racism
• Social
• Trauma
• United States
• Urban
• Video
• Violence

About this artwork

#blacktivist is a statement on police brutality, selective enforcement, and the right of self-defense. Mario Pfeifer conceived this project with the Flatbush ZOMBI ES, a rap group based in Brooklyn. The 2-channel video installation features Pfeifer’s music video for the ZOMBI ES’ new song Blacktivist, that went viral on YouTube within days. It is juxtaposed with the investigation of new techniques for private gun production in the US.

This disturbing documentation accompanies the Flatbush ZOMBI ES’ lyrics that reflect on the right to free speech, confining social realities, and the omnipresence of violence. At the escalating finale of the video the three rappers turn their weapons against themselves to be reborn as freedom partisans that stand up for a new peaceful movement of change, marching on Brooklyn Bridge. [text by Alexander Koch]

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