Game of tag artur zmijewski video

          For instance, in his video , Zmijewski persuades an elderly Auschwitz survivor to have his prison number touched up by a tattoo artist....

          Berek

          By Artur Żmijewski

          The film Berek (Game of Tag) was made in 1999.

          Artur Żmijewski Berek (The Game of Tag), video 4'30''.

        1. Artur Żmijewski Berek (The Game of Tag), video 4'30''.
        2. In his video The Game of Tag a group of people—variously aged, sexed and shaped—play tag in the nude in two locations.
        3. For instance, in his video , Zmijewski persuades an elderly Auschwitz survivor to have his prison number touched up by a tattoo artist.
        4. Game of Tag, shot in by Artur Żmijewski, was exhibited in Krakow in despite Israeli objections.
        5. The video is named Game of Tag and was filmed in by Artur Zmijewski.

          6. In it a group of people play a kid’s game. They are naked, they run around, they laugh a lot. But they are also very serious. They know where they are—in the gas chamber of a former Nazi extermination camp. Berek is about a part of history that is treated as "untouchable" and about overly painful memories, when the official commemorations of this history are not enough.

          The artwork in question, a short film called Berek, translates to “Game of Tag,” and was created by Polish filmmaker Artur Żmijewski in .

          The murdered people are victims—but we, the living, are also victims. And as such we need a kind of treatment or therapy, so we can create a symbolic alternative; instead of dead bodies we can see laughter and life. Berek is about how we can engage with this brutal history and work with imposed memory.

          It’s possible to have active access to history, and to attempt to emancipate ourselves from the trauma.

           

          I was accused by the director of Martin-Gropius-Bau, Gereon Sievernich, of not respecting the dignity of the victims of the Holoc