Maja Smrekar

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Internacionale, Day 04

Every day at noon we place a speaker into an open window sill directed towards the exterior of the government across the street. In a manner of a civil defense siren tone we play a 90-second sound of Internationale - the anthem of mobility in times of immobility. The action parallels with Federico Fellini's Amarcord, where in 1930s Italy a gramophone wired on the town church campanile, plays a recording of the Internationale, but it is soon shot down by Fascists. Our activity that will last as long as the lockdown, started 19th March 2020, when the Slovenian government announced they raised salaries for ministers and state secretaries 30%, while any solutions of solidarity for all the rest of the civil society have not been solved at all. Additionally, the sound causes our dog companion Byron to sometimes jump on a window sill. In this effect he evokes a correlation to the Russian avant-garde that compares proletarians to animals as important contributors to the production of freedom.

Internationale, day 04. Maja Smrekar. from L'internationale online on Vimeo.

Special thanks: Byron

Post-production: Dongwook Jang

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