Meat Factory Weissenfels, 1996/2008/2016

• “Meat Factory, Weissenfels”, Gate 1, 28 November 1995, 6.30 am – 5.30 pm, 158 out of c.460 24 x 36 mm slides, projected in chronological order, cutting between two Kodak Ektapro projectors, duration of each image c.8 sec., size of image c.1 x 1.5 m
• “Meat Factory, Weissenfels”, Gate 1, 4 December 2008, 7 am–4 pm and 5 December 2008, 4–6 pm. 80 slides of 6 x 7 cm, projected in chronological order, cutting between two Goetschmann projectors, duration of each image: 16 sec, size of image: 3 x 3.8 m.
• “Meat Factory, Weissenfels”, Gate 2, 20 March 2016, 5.41 pm – 21 March 2016, 6.30 am and 22 March 2016, 6.30 am–5.11 pm. Projection of 450 out of 1109 shots, Canon 5D Mark III, projected with an UHD video projector, duration of each image: 8 sec, size of image about: 2.5 x 1.7 m.

‘The situation, said Brecht, is complicate because of , less than at anytime does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp work or AEG yields almost nothing about these institutions. Reality proper has slipped into functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let’s say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has actually to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.’

Walter Benjamin, Short History of Photography, 1931