Ring Ring Ha Ha Hey Hey / L.H.O.O.Q. 2008

Five Questions to L.C. von Zukmeister:

1. Who are you?
A petty-bourgeois cultural worker who works with image and text, and by the way it's Von Sukmeister, with a 'S'.

2. Why are you here on the internet?
Is there any alternative? We follow the guest-worker principle rules. Find somewhere to exhibit as cheaply possible, and then try to earn some credits from the self-obsessed curators with their harsh in- and exclusion mechanisms. The whole myth and status of the curator as the organizer of good taste is shackled to the attempt to hesitate fixating on other works other than coming from their own network of art professionals and artists. I think that's bohemian kitsch. That so many of us are here on the internet is a productive side effect of this curator's continuing crises.

3. When did you get here?
I first came here in 1981 and lived in a squattered kampong. That was an interesting time for me, lots of uprisings, collapse, powerful art. Since I got a room in Nijmegen, I've actually been away most of the time. As a place to disappear, the Internet's fantastic!

4. What do you want?
Death to curators

5. Where do you go?
Until I can afford a little studio or apartment in Amsterdam, nowhere.

Credits:
Art Director: L.C. von Sukmeister
Cinematographer: Le Chef du Bureau
Associate Producer: Renzo M.
Camera: Le Chroniquer Untitled
Location: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Date: 14 June 2008, ReadyMade 2007
Set: Congo
Set Designer: R. Martens
Script: H. Steyerl, Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4. berlin biennale für Video Appropriation
Script Consultant: Hito S., p. 070 - 2006.
Prop assistant: S. Amsung E900
Serie: THE STUTTGART SELF-OBSESSION. A BLATANT USE OF THE EVENT-INDUSTRY

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