Kontrollstelle 1 / Kontrollstelle2

Audio installation on two SBB platforms, duration: 08' 12''
Spoken by Esther Becker, Sound composition by Simon Grab
Set Design: pursucre©

Françoise Caraco transforms the ArtBox, a former conductor‘s house, with few interventions in checkpoints and thematizes the reactions of society to the diffuse threats of today. Security is at the heart of these efforts, but it is tied to control and the arbitrariness that goes with it.

Where is the border between surveillance and surveillance?

Excerpt: Daniela Mineboo

Der Schrei // The Scream (2015)

Audio work: time 3' 12", in loop, spoken by Esther Becker

Francoise Caraco’s (b.1972) audio work Der Schrei refers to the eponymous painting by Edvard Munch, described in the audio work as ‘an allegory of the modern’ and ‘one of the most expensive paintings of all time’. The masterpiece is quoted at other more subtle levels through the oval shape of the loudspeakers and through the intrinsic act of speaking and listening. The audio recording includes a discussion of the commercialization of the scream icon, which reached a climax with the horror film Scream and the subsequent spread of the film’s hallmark mask. By including the history of the reception of the famous painting, Caraco’s new work reflects on the subject of the scream as well as fundamental ideas such as originality and copy; private ownership and public use; and cultural heritage, commercialism, the art market and record prices.

Text: Alessandra da Ruggieri, Daniela Mineboo