Kaunas Bienalé – There and Not There

July 2017

Sound works installed in letterboxes in the Jewish Ghetto of Kaunas and outside buildings once inhabited by Jewish residents. The soundscape comprises of spoken word recitations of Yiddish aphorisms, combined with an old folk song “ A Yiddish Kind”.

BikoHausen, Steven Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Johannesburg, 1971

Multi-screened projection:

Video design | Catherine Meyburgh

Camera | Richard Pakleppa

commissioned by the Goethe Institute, Johannesburg

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