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♪ In the year 2036. 100 years away from now ♪

♪ the things to come. I see them well ♪

♪ The times today, they cease to matter ♪

♪ It's better to look onto the past ♪

♪ In 100 years we ll become extinct ♪

♪ Future is the best of times ♪

♪ But I guess, I guess ♪

♪ it won t be much different from now ♪

♪ The world once more will be past a war, which somebody had won somehow ♪

♪ Than, they all will claim peace again, until they are armed to repeat again... ♪

Being victim and part of the national socialists at the same time,

Austria very quickly developed into an independent democratic republic.

The social and the christian democrats, SPÖ and ÖVP

proved to be the two parties to build one of the most secure

but also one of the most overstructured nations in the world.

In the mid-eighties the FPÖ, a German oriented nationalist party

became the third power.

the beloved image of the

country of waltzes shatters in the face of the world.

In 20 minutes the inauguration will be over and the new government will be in function.

According to article 70 of the federal constitutional court, I declare you

Dr. Schüssel, the federal chancellor.

Against his own election promises and against the outspoken will

of the president, chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel goes into coalition

with the openly xenophobic FPÖ-party.

Yesterday night, Vienna once again has seen numerous protests

demonstrating against the FPÖ getting to be state officials.

Activists have stormed the famous Burgtheater and Hotel Imperial.

Just look for yourself how things are in the middle of Vienna.

The FPÖ-party under the leadership of Jörg Haider had developed into a

global symbol for Europe's turn towards the extreme right.

RESISTANCE

Despite being protected by massive squads of armed policemen, the new government

did not dare to walk into the imperial palace in public, but preferred to enter through

a subterranean passage.

With the inauguration of the new government, the sanctions against Austria by

all other European Union States are now effective.

The contacts to Austria are being limited.

With this act the EU threatens their own member.

"Should we wait until they are building concentration camps again?"

Vienna between 11th and 17th of June.

The local culture institution "Wiener Festwochen" invites infamous German

shock director Christoph Schlingensief as their political statement.

Inspired by the Reality TV-show "Big Brother", he builds a concentration camp

like container right beside Vienna's opera, the main tourist site of the city.

Six webcams watch twelve real asylum seekers imprisoned there for the entire week.

Via Internet vote you can deport these people out of Austria daily.

KILL EUROPE! FOREIGNERS OUT!

AN EVENT BY CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF

PLEASE LOVE AUSTRIA!

Vienna downtown, June 11th 2000, 9 p.m.

TRANSPORT INTO THE CONTAINER

www.foreignersout.org

The container is coming! Pick your own foreigner! Give him your vote!

DEPORT!

Throw two of them out of the country daily! The deporting has started!

I would like to use this occasion to explain the rules of the game

Tonight, only a few minutes away, a dozen asylum seekers

will be transported inside this place.

For the given time, they will remain in the living room right underneath me

in two sleeping containers and a small open yard.

At the back is a sanitary container with toilets and showers.

Some of them will stay in here for six full days.

Every day - dear Austrians

you will be able to vote for your most hated foreigner in here.

The "actors" were auditioned in refugee camps all across Austria.

And by phone and web, you will be able to throw them out of your borders.

The results will be publicly announced every night at 8 p.m. sharp.

The selected foreigners will be driven directly to the borderline and deported.

CLAUDIA KALOFF - project manager

The idea was so extreme. Putting real asylum seekers into a container

right at the time, when that huge "Big Brother"-boom hit.

You just pack them in there and the whole population or half of Europe are able to

vote them out! What an incredible stroke of genius!

I guess the worst moment for the foreigners was

when they stepped out of the bus.

Walking through the screaming hordes of people. Five Hundred or so.

Ten cameras and thirty photographers opposing them.

MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL - dramatic advisor

An intense experience, I myself had not encountered before

except when watching news on television.

Leila comes first, please! Out at the front, please!

Almost all are foreigners with pending application process.

The discovery of their identity can lead to deportation.

Leila al-Hashimi Iraq

44 Graduate Psychologist

Anita, read the second bio! Please!

Sema Kolat Kurdistan

38 Secretary

Gong Xiaowei China

35 Journalist

Nerem Njawé Cameroon

30 Student

Ramus Pivok Kosovo

37 Trainer

Eugen Major Zimbabwe

28 Journalist

Wole Osifo Nigeria

30 Mechanic

Dumiso Mungoshi Zimbabwe

28 Journalist

Sri Lanka Ranil Shunta

29 Student

China Zhu Qiang

40 Marine Biologist

I wish all of you good luck in the name of Europe!

And now we will unveil the sign, the soon-to-be motto for all tourists here.

Dear Japanese! Dear Frenchmen!

Dear Belgians! Dear Americans!

Please take many pictures of this place!

Please take them home with you!

Show all your relatives and friends, what is going on in Austria!

Show them the future of Europe!

This is the truth! This is the FPÖ!

This is the Krone Newspaper!

This is Austria!

Herewith, I declare the event as started!

FOREIGNERS OUT

CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF - director

If I just had screamed it, it would have been different.

If I scream "Foreigners out!", then it would have been just somebody screaming that!

You would say, what an asshole and that's it! I mean, I also did that!

But it is something completely different

when the same sentence becomes unremovable like an election banner, just standing there.

And you can't do anything against it! And the entire sympathizers crawl

out of their holes and cheer like freaked out madmen.

Press conference of the "Wiener Festwochen". June 6th 2000, shortly before the event.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!

We said it before clearly

LUC BONDY - Head of the cultural festival "Wiener Festwochen"

I don't feel comfortable to live in the only country in all of Europe

where a conservative party has broken the taboo

of having a party of the extreme right to be part

of the official government.

And I'm perfectly sure, that the "Festwochen"

need to be a space for political discussion.

When such things happen, you need room

to openly think about all these procedures.

The way things develop, the world can't afford any individuality.

Individuality is not on the schedule. That's why, those asylum seekers just need

to be black, need to be drug dealers. Have to be homos. Have to be assholes.

You just have to be black and - Wham!

Simple key signals!

If you seriously think about the news

where UMTS-licences for 99 billion bucks pass hands daily

what can the little man with his sorry earnings do, that is of any importance!

There's no relation anymore!

Hell! There is someone

in the world paying 99 billion for that shit!

Maybe with my monthly 1.800, I also could perhaps...

But due to the lack of real money and funds,

the little man needs a substitutional currency.

And that currency must be payable in any place in the world.

He must be able to punch on the

"BLACK MUST GO!" Everyone will understand this!

These are the languages that are understood very fast!

That's why I'm completely against the opinion that

what Jörg Haider does, is an act of intelligence. It is not.

It is simply a substitutional currency.

♪ And also in a married state ♪

♪ for those in the Congo lands all belongings go to the black men... ♪

750.000

♪... and body care is no trouble with her. She needs no silken gown♪

♪ No fresh bought hat ♪

♪ If she puts him to anger, he just cooks her for dinner ♪

♪ Congo niggers live life a pretty cosy way ♪

DAY ONE

KATHI GRUBER & GABI KAIBA "Wiener Festwochen" - production staff

The container reached from here to the barrier

with bicycles over there.

...we need to question what these drug dealers

have done to our children! How many families have they ruined?

How many kids have they destroyed? These questions have to be our main issue...

The container is awakened daily by playing original Haider-speeches.

...and that's why we from the FPÖ-party

are the guarantee for every citizen for a calm and secure life in this country...

The walls are covered with original quotations from FPÖ campaigns.

...and I am sure, many of you have understood

how many times it has been tried to criminalize the campaigns of Vienna's FPÖ.

Just because we have spoken out, what burns

deep inside the heart

There must be an end to foreign immigration!

BURGHART SCHMIDT - cultural philosopher

The political situation, pinned down here, was obvious

For the first time in Europe, a government was formed, that officially included

a party that was fostered and built on connections to the extreme right.

HELENE PARTIK-PABLÈ - parliamentary deputy, FPÖ

The FPÖ party was not involved with xenophobic politics.

We never said "Foreigners out!" All we did, was to maintain political responsibility!

We always said, Austria is no country suited for immigrants.

Therefore we need a drastic limitation, so any civil integration can get possible.

At that point it was pledged, that Austria is no immigration country,

despite the fact this statement completely contradicts the country's history.

It always was an ironic bonmot to hint at Vienna's phone book

at the kind of foreign names you vastly find in there.

So this broke with Austrian tradition through the very same politicians

who were talking about the historical commitment.

This is the new way, ladies and gentlemen!

This is "Foreigners Out"! This is Vienna!

This is Nazi! This is You and I!

This production is presented to you by the FPÖ

in association with the Krone Newspaper.

This is a production by the FPÖ party,

who here presents their up-to-date model for sewage plants!

This is the new way we are giving to you! You may now walk right in here!

Step in, ladies and gentlemen! Get inside the peepshow!

Pick and watch your very own asylum seeker! It is absolutely free!

The FPÖ party in association with Krone Newspaper brings this event to you!

This is the newly opened Nazi film factory!

The pictures, that Europe wants will be produced in here!

You are now part of the resistance, ladies and gentlemen!

You also! You are now officially commissioned to resistance! Yes, you!

I declare you now to be the official resistance at 3:20 p.m. Sharp!

You are now officially commissioned to be resistance! Resistance fighter!

-The first two days were quite peaceful. Just like we were expecting it to happen.

It was weekend. No work time. Vienna was sleeping.

Nobody had freaked out yet. There was no press coverage.

Except for the Krone Newspaper. They jumped on it immediately.

Correct. They jumped on it. But only small at the beginning.

"We have been betrayed and sold out!"

German lessons for foreigners!

Strict actions against loafers!

Neue Kronen Zeitung - The biggest global print monopoly in one nation

1 million copies per issue with a population of 7,4 million

43,4% public range

This is a local pecularity, that must

Behind every bigger movement in Austria

there is Hans Dichand and his Krone Newspaper backing it up.

Actionist tries to build container camp besides opera!

German "actionist" provokes in Vienna!

Dearest tourists! Please take pictures! Foreigners Out!

This is Krone Newspaper and the Opera! Send your postcards around the world!

Show them what's happening in good old Austria!

Land of the Nazis! Land of the fascists!

Here is Nazi central! Here refugee camps burn every night!

Here blacks, Africans, all kinds of people, are murdered with ease.

Tourists are OK! They deliver the cash!

They won't be the prey of homosexual, drug addicted blacks anymore!

- We got Austria! Foreigners out! - Away with them!

- With transportation cars away! - Away with them!

We're going to kill 'em all! Heads off!

Official executions in public! This is the place!

Every day, executions of 20 to 30 foreigners! - Cut the heads off!

The square of heavenly execution! The square of divine execution!

Sure it is easy to misinterpret the whole thing!

For the whole bunch of peace activists

and those charmingly sweet resistance fighters.

I just don't get their way.

When I am deeply bugged by something, when something just doesn't seem right

I need to disturb the picture

presented as the wholesome and correct one.

The whole container-thing was a machinery to disrupt images!

Heads off!

♪ This happens only once. This never comes again ♪

♪ This is too beautiful to be all true... ♪

We only need Austrians! Nothing else!

-This was no voyage to discover how stupid the Austrian really is!

That would have been idiotic!

We got Austria!

-What was revealed through this form of media installation, was how this "dirt plastic",

as Sloterdijk defined it, worked to gather people like a force field.

Like all the dirt that appears in the TV ads, when the cleaning rag is near.

Houellebecq was here! And finally here we have her!

A resistance fighteress!

From now on you are a resistance fighter! We have got 6:30 p.m.!

I officially declare you resistance fighter!

No violence please! Even if there are some slight Nazi vibes...

There! There! There is something going on, ladies and gentlemen!

Is there something hidden? ls there something inside the head?

Does it give you a ring?

Are the eyes flashing? Are there strange crosses in the eyes?

I see something! This is film, ladies and gentlemen! This is film!

This is the future! We produce the pictures, that Austria definitely does not need!

Opening of the "peep-show" to "visit" and "feed" the foreigners.

I know the Karajan Square well. Usually the masses are streaming there

out of the shopping zone of Kärntner Street into the main underground station

and usually the only hindrance is the masked opera sellers

vending their tickets, trying to up the class culture level.

And suddenly we had unexpected cross traffic there.

All stops were pulled and the whole thing developed a maelstrom fast.

Daily Celebrity PAULUS MANKER - director and actor

Two must leave every evening. Two at a time.

And then?

The last one will win!

The last nigger carries away 700.000 bucks!

No Austrian?

You also want in?

Yes! Oh, yes!

Yes? Just go in then!

This must be a joke!

ARMIN THURNHER - chief editor of viennas's city mag "Falter"

Regarding foreign politics of that moment, the main activity of the Austrian government

was to get rid of the sanctions. To prove innocent, so to speak.

Just at that exact moment, Schlingensief staged this

event to hold a mirror up towards Austria, to prove that some kind of guilt existed.

In a situation, when my native nation is ridiculed in front of the whole world

when everybody wants to see what really happens in this country.

Is this now a fascist state or not? Then it is my duty as a responsible

politician to cover up any impression of that... Because it's simply not true.

We have violated no convention

so the European economy can't put no sanctions on us!

At the moment they may have pulled it out their bilateral asses

and they may have canceled all political meetings with us.

But then it is completely justified when our government now

"Just a moment!"

If our government isn't allowed to negotiate with

Germany, France or Belgium in preparation of conferences of the

European Union - then we haven't got enough intellect to do so

but then we also won't be able to give our official vote and we will need our

expanded time for the essential decisions!

Then the whole EU process of eastern expansion will be put on hold!

And completely rightfully so!

Daily deportation around 9:00 p.m.

So now we will initiate an act that is real!

I'm saying it again! This is a performance of the "Wiener Festwochen"!

This is an actor! This is the absolute truth!

The results have arrived!

It is a man from Iran,

Jahansha Alvandi, who has been voted out of our country today.

Now, security please come in!

Two of you guys please come in and carry him away to the car!

Well, that was the dramatic structure of the container.

This container had started like a picture on the wall.

Then suddenly it flooded the crowds like the yeast of a cake.

So you were stuck right in there, couldn't fall over anymore. Fully enclosed in between.

So you stepped into a movie right at the moment of filming

without a step back being possible.

You stood in that film, which was your very own film.

Not my film. Not the one of Mr. Schmitz or Mr. Bondy.

Referring to it as a market-conscious term, we had basically built a "product"

that independently perpetuated itself like a virus inside the body.

This is the ideal product the whole economy is searching for.

A product you have to introduce only once, that spreads like a snowball system

completely on its own.

DAY TWO

...we severely believe, those hundred thousands illegal aliens

in this country carry no right to remain in this country!

Therefore they have to leave this land by

our will, if they are proven delinquents! Because we don't want to breed crime!...

Daily sports routine, early morning

RAINER LAUX - head of German TV-production of "Big Brother"

"Big Brother" indeed was a new kind of television. You really felt it

this was something new. It hadn't been done before.

Observing people 24 hours a day, Watching TV in the TV.

It also was a fad at that time to oppose "Big Brother".

As a so-called insult of human dignity

you knew it would immediately be in the headlines, on TV and radio.

It simply was fascinating! You could look right into a normal life!

There was a living room. A garden. A bedroom. Like in any average home.

A little bit bigger. In a slightly different style. But almost the same.

And you had the chance to innocently peek into what other people are doing.

From morning until night. 24 hours a day.

The people inside this house were completely authentic.

Though they were in a staged environment

their lives in there were completely credible.

Where do you live? Here?

Daily German lesson, late forenoon

A big house? No!

A container!

I had the idea to work with containers for a very long time.

A container already appeared in one of my movies, "Terror 2000" in 1992

which featured the visit of a camp for asylum seekers

where I realized for the very first time how like eight people have to seriously

live together on 18 square meters including kitchen and the toilet outside.

Then some strange news appear.

I mean, these hysteria about "Big Brother" really means nothing

because these things have existed forever.

Also this refugee camp beside the opera really was there a long, long time ago.

In a far more violent and realistic form.

Christoph Maria Schlingensief. Son of a pharmacist. Born 24.10.1960 in Oberhausen.

The subversive combination of populist narratives like

"Big Brother" with real socio-political problems.

Since the mid-eighties he creates films in the German underground scene.

Getting more and more respected in the art circuit, he expands the

screen into reality in the mid-nineties.

The theatre "Berliner Volksbühne" becomes his permanent home since 1997.

An anarchist TV-talk show and several public pranks make him a headline item.

But with the election event of "Chance 2000", a real political party by artists

supporting social losers, he overthrows himself with the media and

gets trashed as political clown. The "Wiener Festwochen" is the first institution

to invite him again to work in an established cultural setting.

CARL HEGEMANN - chief dramatic advisor "Volksbühne Berlin"

In the beginning I was very sure this would flop.

I thought this would be too obvious, too intended.

Everybody would feel preached to, because everybody would know

what this whole thing really is about.

What the heck! We love foreigners! And it all would remain without effect.

It should have intrigued me differently, because these stories from Schlingensief

always amazingly work with the crowd somehow. But still I was extremely surprised

when all of a sudden the whole Austrian population seriously took part in that play.

The first have been deported!

Vienna is embarrassed!

Monkey Biz Theatre Farce!

Our country turned into a cartoon!

Certainly, regarding the latent theme of xenophobia

the whole Austrian media situation, politics, he just had to throw a stone into that

pool and count the waves. But how many waves would occur

and how big they would get, that was the thing that really interested him.

And when some others started throwing their rocks in as well, he as the initiator

was delightfully thrilled, what would come out in the end.

He certainly tried to orchestrate the whole thing in between, but

it would have been impossible with a biased political view.

If you perfectly direct and compose such a thing, it's dead from the start!

This is the magnificent banner

they keep hanging here for two and a half days already!

The coalition you have voted for, keeps up a slogan like this in public

for two and a half days now! Since two and a half days the ÖVP and FPÖ

do absolutely nothing to remove it!

How damn stupid this coalition has to be to keep this hanging for two and a half days!

This is the question we have to ask

Why can't we take this coalition seriously? They have to end!

They absolutely have to end!

At exactly this moment...

RICHARD SCHMITZ - ex-chief of Vienna's first district, ÖVP

He first of all is a terribly skilled marketer of himself.

And there are media believing he will achieve something really big some day.

It already appeared to be like a big zero

when he was at the Wolfgangsee with all those unemployed

there was nothing there at all. A fluke.

But I was surprised about the press coverage afterwards.

It was very well photographed.

HEIDEMARIE UNTERREINER - culture spokeswoman, FPÖ

Schlingensief is a puppet! You take him out of the closet for

Hey! You! Do this! Do that!

Create images of Austria that pull Austria into the dirt!

Shopping stroll in downtown Vienna

Schlingensief storms shop! It was like a terrorist attack!

Excuse me, but what are you doing here?

We just wanted to look at your offers.

But you should have waited! Please turn off that thing!

Please call the chief of the first district immediately!

I have kindly requested you to stop filming!

Afterwards the downtown boutique Popp & Kretschmer sues for trespassing.

People keep whining that there is no relevant political theatre left.

People would not go there any more. I mean, who wants to see that?

There is just boredom on the stages, disconnected from real life.

This evidently is what links all events by Schlingensief together.

They invent situations, that allow no clear understanding of them.

You can't clearly judge for yourself what is happening here.

That's why I completely refuse the idea

that this was an exemplary demonstration of fascism.

If this event would have been intended that way

then people with the "right consciousness" would have safely been able to cope with it.

This whole method reaches back to Karl Kraus

and what Walter Benjamin

That you don't need to comment to articulate criticism.

It is enough to simply quote what you criticize.

The quotes just need to be placed in the right position at the right time and place.

Then suddenly a simple citation becomes self-revelatory!

I simply don't get it, why these people can not understand!

All over the world, there is war and we are supposed to donate!

There is money given to those who are starving and whoever else!

All over the world, there is war and nobody does something against it!

And here, they freak out about this? Am I stupid or what?

All over the world, there is war

and people freak out over here, just because people are deported!

This is fully correct! War is everywhere!

Turks and Yugoslaves! They are overpopulating us!

This is our problem! It's not their intellectuals joining us here!

It's the waste that's coming up, who won't even appreciate us!

You can't blame the ones coming! You have to blame the politics!

This is the problem!

You can't even say what you really want!

First the Turks, then the Yugoslavs, then everybody else is "the" foreigner?

We are overpopulated! Ain t that right?

Bullshit.

That's bullshit!

What is your family name?

- Turkovic! - Now you see!

Of Yugoslavian heritage...

Austria has picked their votes. The election lines per phone

were used for real and quite a bit, I have to say.

SANDRA UMATHUM - companion to Schlingensief-events

All in all, Christoph just picks up things, that happen in society anyway.

Everybody knows a "Foreigners out!"- sign. Everybody knows, there are refugees in

containers out there at any time, just waiting for their deportation.

Perhaps a lot of people see this play as being cynical,

disregarding the fact, that the ruling agendas in media, in society

cannot be surpassed in their cynicism.

Who are the dirty pigs authorizing this?

I am Austrian! But I am for the foreigners!

My wife is half of a foreigner! In Paris, Aha! It is true!

In Austria, there are the Nazis! Foreigners out, they say there!

Where is the ladder! I will take this down! Tomorrow?

Please don't submit to this, you all! Am I not free? Do you want to arrest me?

Because I am protesting here, you really want to arrest me?

What kind of law justifies this? You have got identification?

several intruders - some carrying knives

one fire bomb - defective one protester - discharged by police

DAY THREE

Kosovo! Shit! Broken!

PETER SLOTERDIJK - cultural philosopher

The age of shock is over!

The epoch is gone, where the cultural avant-garde could work with surprises

Public discussion on the container

and attacks on an unprepared nervous system. In Germany we just have lived through

the "Big Brother"- hysteria, where an elimination game

became the center of all things. But as soon as you blank out this insane need

of society to have one person as winner, so you don't cherish the gladiator anymore

and you don't cheer the European soccer master

but you move that mechanism

of elimination into the light. That's where things start to get thrilling.

Then you can see how openly society participates in the production of losers.

Because the production of one winner requires the production of an

uncountable number of losers.

This is art! What? This is supposed to be "art"?

This is a fucking hoax on Austria!

We have not burned down refugee homes! Not like it happened in Germany!

We may be talking like stupid... Austrians may be talking stupid...

But we don't burn down any homes or something like it!

If I weren't such a coward, I would climb up and rip this whole thing down.

You are helping us? So, that I get upset and can't sleep at night

because you hang something like this up here!

You are an enemy to Austria and you need to be deported!

The formation of this government was no democratic act at all!

Before the election had started, Chancellor Schüssel had promised

If he would finish as third in the polls, he would take his party into opposition!

By this, he lured those voters, who for whatever reason

tried to prevent the FPÖ from entering the government!

Who voted for Haider, at least knew what he bargained with!

Who voted for Schüssel was betrayed to the highest degree!

Is this really your only potential to articulate any resistance?

This is a sorry ass demonstration of incapacity!

Yes! These are our problems! Not yours! You don't need to put this up over here!

This is a European problem!

Here no asylum seekers burn like they do in Germany!

I am a good Austrian!

They are laughing at us in other countries!

"ZiB3" Austrias midnight TV-news show ORF Tuesday, 13. 6. 2000

Mr. Schlingensief, the Viennese people are outraged, the tourists are shocked!

We have heard that! We have seen that! These are the headlines of tomorrow's

newspapers! And not only from the "Krone"! Is it this uproar that you wanted?

Provocation is a means for morons! That's what the FPÖ is aiming for!

With a provocation, I provoke you and then I just leave.

The difference is, that the container also works without me.

You'll recognize that, when you're passing by!

Ms. Unterreiner, you are the cultural spokeswoman of the FPÖ!

In a press release you have written, Mister Schlingensief is mentally disturbed!

Do you feel provoked?

I do not feel provoked at all by Mister Schlingensief.

But it is symptomatic, that provocation has become a method of cultural politics.

We refuse that. Just as we refuse child rape, violence per se and things like blasphemy.

We do not consider this as art! Here, art only becomes a disguise for--

What you do here is just spawning public hatred!

Just take your slogans!

You can provoke at your container thing but not in here, in the ORF television!

Here at the ORF, it is my turn! Not yours!

The people, who are responsible for Austria's Isolation, are in the government.

Hey, you should try getting elected as a politician, huh!

ANDREAS SALCHER, ÖVP -Just play your game! I won't step into your trap!

I won't be acting in your play!

The fear grows! The fear grows!

I have to interfere here!

Right at this moment, Austria is a completely ridiculous country.

An absolutely ridiculous, laughed at population!

Tonight, there has been an incident again. Three people invaded the container

for the second time! And there was a little fire attack right at the front entrance!

What is close ahead of us, concerning globalization to a high degree,

is the danger of a technocratic economist fascism of a complete new kind,

which leaves behind all of it's old characteristics.

This could be a form of totalitarianism, that is completely different.

Justifying itself by the increasingly lethal dangers of all technology used

to maintain society and by the free access

to the delights of pure economism.

If you really want

all of your consumer pleasures

we have to completely control and observe this society!

It had been assumed by Schlingensief

that the "foreigners" are just a new currency

for the Nazis. Another idea of his was, that the entire extreme right was just some kind

of business scheme. It was obvious how Haider filled a market niche with this.

There simply is a rightwing clientele in Austria, that can be skimmed.

So you just target their votes as a business move.

But that is just simple. It is less trivial, how they all bet

on xenophobia like on a horse... or try to realise an idea

that has not been realized.

They throw hate into the market and see if it works.

And if society resists it, you just look for the next method.

Daily Celebrity - ELFRIEDE JELINEK Nobel Prize winning Austrian author

We have written a play together. I somehow got the idea to let them

write down sentences in German. Sentences, they heard many times before.

So we assembled them into a punch-and-judy kind of play.

I am Miss Heidemarie Unterreiner.

Tomorrow I will come and eat humans!

Finally, I am the chancellor! I love human beings!

I love Austrian human beings!

I don't want the war!

We need nothing but humans!

We live in Europe with Europeans!

Our biggest wish is to become actors!

Please help us with this possibility! Thank you!

Everybody wanted to look at the human being as product then.

What had been the star actor of a TV series or Liz Taylor on the big screen before

now was Mister Smith and that pussy from that beer pub across the street

who suddenly became visible as human goods.

They gave you the feeling, that it doesn't matter how stupid you are,

you re worth something. But we also discovered via "Big Brother"

this is a lesson Mr. Laux also had to learn with the flop of the "Big Diet"-show -

that the main ingredient in the product "human being" is not its surface.

It is not to be conceived as a kind of capital, but far deeper.

Counter-statement by Vienna's Mayor Dr. Michael Häupl, SPÖ

This is not reality. This is a game. A dangerous game with emotions.

Austria is different!

We are approaching the deportation of the day.

This night not three will be brought away, as we had planned. No! Two will be deported!

Today, number three is leaving us. Wole from Nigeria! A black man again!

Austria has voted out a black again! Look at that consequence!

What a constant process this all is!

Today, the lady from Iraq and Wole from Nigeria will be gone!

We have reached the fourth day today! The sign is still hanging!

The coalition can splendidly live with it!

The super stupid Austrians have voted a super stupid coalition!

That's the way, things look right at the moment!

DAY FOUR

He should come out, if he dares to!

Who's gonna take this down? I can't reach it...

And for the rest it's far too dangerous!

I think it s a mess.

Those Krauts always start these things!

The century of socialism was a century of crime!

Those who already stay here, shall remain here

and they shall have equal rights to the Austrians.

Otherwise there is going to be a war between us!

We want to have our peace!

The one truly surrealist act possible is to randomly shoot into a crowd.

If this is a form of radicalism, it has worked here in the end.

You could not hear the shot. But an incredible lot of people

were stumbling around heavily wounded. Screaming "Ouch" and hollering.

Daily Celebrity - The GARZANER-family permanent guests at Schlingensief-events

Here we have Mario, Kurt and Ilse Garzaner!

You have phoned us to participate! Why? What do you have to tell us?

We very much enjoy this event and... We have accepted the guest patronance--

This is a piece of shit!

Those are all actors!

Kick out the Krauts! Foreigners in!

This is no art! Who puts up this filth? This is warmongering!

Foreigners in! Kick out the Krauts!

I have no idea at all, where that sentence comes from!

Can t you even raise your arm nowadays, without being called a Nazi!

What a bunch of morons!

I was pleasantly surprised, that all these people on the street

started to discuss their politics

in connection to the event.

That really was good.

But when things suddenly cooked up in this summer heat

when it turned really hot and aggressive, I got scared at times.

Just tell me one precise example where this Austrian government,

since its formation, has violated the basic human rights!

Where they have invited any racist hatred! If you could kindly tell us just one example

in front of these microphones! But you can't!

You have got right-wing populists in your government.

There are racist slogans all over the place, which come directly from this government.

"Oh my, no, no, we didn't say that!"

Haider is not part of the government! ls the FPÖ in the government or not?!

But that's bullshit!

You are one of those artists suckling on state money and those artists now

scream the loudest in fear they won't get anything from the state anymore!

And that's why this woodshed, these moron chants...

Does St. Stephan's Cathedral please you?

I think St. Stephen's is a beauty!

Do you know how it was financed?

Possibly... Maybe... Could be...

By subvention money!

Yes. But today the whole art...

Subventions have always been there. You know?

Yes. But then you can't...

And St. Stephan's cathedral also still is there!

CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF - director

I only felt scared by all the things that happend on Friday.

Standing on the roof, I thought all of a sudden, that the way

things happen right now with the constant calls and threats,

if all this really is a movie, there is place in the story for a sniper

on the other roof or for someone making a drastic example.

Everything could have happened. There could have been an attack at any time.

Everything was possible.

We didn't know at first, that it just was butyric acid.

But after these acid attacks...they could have used something really harmful.

One of two attacks with butyric acid. Thursday, 15.06.2000

Something that leaves permanent damage on the people in there.

I found his behaviour completely irresponsible to himself.

Standing there fully exposed.

The whole project appeared to be unprotected from all directions.

You are against foreigners? Why are you against foreigners?

Ouch! It can't be the same bottle all the time?

Haider is not an asshole! President Klestil is an asshole!

I'm inclined to open up a company. I'm prepared to give work to foreigners

that carry certificates to live here.

You German swine!

You artist!

KATHI GRUBER & GABI KAIBA - "Wiener Festwochen" production team

This was no real job.

It was like living through a war zone, constantly fighting against

the inside as well as the outside.

Christoph had withdrawn himself completely from us.

Amnesty International would have done it differently.

This was no Amnesty-thing! This was no "show me your wounds!"- project!

We did not want to get green cards for the twelve of them.

In some aspects this venture was swinish to the highest degree!

Daily Celebrity - GREGOR GYSI German politician, PDS

Krauts out! Krauts out! Krauts out!

There is no negative energy! There just is energy!

And now I welcome our honorary guest Gregor Gysi!

Hello to you all, dear Viennese women and men!

Dear guests of the City! Dear friends and ...Enemies!

This signifies our level of tolerance.

Schlingensief is a provocateur. This is for sure.

And many now heat up to his provocations. This also is for sure.

The only real provocation in our time is

that we still have to deal with the late traces of the Middle Ages!

And these traces are any form of racism and xenophobia today!

This is what we have to leave behind!

- Police! - Please police!

Viva international solidarity!

Nazis out! Free the refugees, please!

CLAUDIA KALOFF - project manager

I really felt scared when the activists stormed the container.

They just crashed it with that hippie-idea in We need to free those people!

They didn't understand, that it was serious what we played out there.

You just could witness their urge to destruct. Sure it is understandable.

We definitely had used the crudest statements to provoke.

But I was really in fear, that all could suddenly end in a very bad way.

THE DEMONSTRATION ARRIVES

Set them free!

1-2-3 set them free!

They were all in extreme heat. Those people crashing in.

It was all screaming and fighting. You had to keep in the background

to not get punched. You were beaten, torn and pushed.

Such a peaceful being like me! I just thought, should I run away?

And the situation was how to get them down from the roof again

before it breaks in and 20 or 30 of them have broken legs or worse.

RESISTANCE!

ARMIN THURNHER - chief editor of Viennas's city mag "FALTER"

I had witnessed myself, when the weekly Thursday demonstrations stepped

into the trap by Schlingensief with their activists completely off the chain.

Suddenly they started to demonstrate for a clean Austria.

They cleaned Austria by destroying the revelatory stigmata.

This I conceived as very frightening.

That these people are ruled by a certain blindness

so they can not see, what they are taking part in

and that their roles are immediately changing

as soon as they step onto the public stage.

They acted with the intention to reconstruct the image of a clean Austria.

Not just simply some Austria, but the image of a purified Austria.

So up to a point they acted on the same level

as the Krone Newspaper did, wanting the same outcome.

Free the people!

The people really are frightened in there!

After the activists were standing on top and inside of the container

I negotiated that six of them should build a delegation to talk with the refugees.

"We want to liberate you!

We want to bring you freedom! We are from the anti-fascistic front!"

Now they all will be freed!

The refugees have to be evacuated out of security reasons.

Deportation is murder! Deportation kills!

Are they all gone now?

The liberation of the refugees has happened!

And it was not the government freeing them!

It was the population!

Therefore I am thanking all of you! Bye!

Resistance!

MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL - dramatic advisor

It may be embarrassing for the Viennese resistance groups.

But the reality is, that this event had initiated

much more political fuzz than they managed to raise in two previous months of protest.

After a furious beginning the demos had withered more and more.

And no ideas to reinvent the protest were happening anymore.

HEAD OF PRODUCTION

Does this mean, all is finished now? Was this the finale?

May we leave some flyers? What's up now?

Is everything over? We insist you come to

the demo next Thursday! The embassy for concerned citizens down at city hall!

Cause we had such a container there a lot earlier than you!

Since February the 9th! You just have to come!

We also will be there! But we have to ask mommy!

This is our new home anyway!

The whole event here was to bug the FPÖ in the first place, right?

NINA WETZEL - set designer

So that the FPÖOur flag is parading from such a shithive?

And now it is the enemies of this party who pull it all down?

You re doing the FPÖ a favor by taking the sign down.

They have become part of the play without recognizing it.

Or perhaps they even recognized it.

But they never got it, that this whole event was against the right wing.

Yes, this was the provocation! How long can this

sentence survive in public! It wasn't really meant that way, right?

Foreigners out! This was only a provocation. To check out

how long the sign stays up there! And our government stupids accepted that

without understanding it. But then the demo gloriously--

Yes! But isn't it much better to keep this picture up for a full ten weeks

to oppose the government instead of tearing it down? It's stupid!

Freedom for the refugees? When they get out of here

what kind of freedom is there to find?

They thought you would kill them! What was on your minds?

They don't know any German!

All that screaming out there! The hullabaloo!

The fighting all around! They thought, this would be their end!

Are you the leader of this bunch of imbeciles? Not one leader's left out there

CHIEF OF SECURITY

anyway, ey? Just a bunch of bored idiots, destroying everything in sight!

Well, I just had wandered down Ballhaus-Square as we heard the people

decided to storm the container. Let's look what happens!

And then it took eternities until the demo

I really need to watch this now and so I went there!

And 15 minutes later the demo happened to pass by!

The Indians stormed the buildings. The refugees fled. The event ended.

It would have been the biggest mistake to end it this way.

DAY FIVE

Reconstruction of the sign

Please pull it more towards the middle! There is a double S in there!

This looks like SS!

It's not good for Austria, when people can see that SS-people are living here!

The SS-insignia are forbidden! Don't ever let SS be read up there!

They might assume we did that on purpose!

SANDRA UMATHUM - long-term companion of Schlingensief

We had to somehow try to maintain autonomy in between all these positions.

Between the left, that patted on your back,

and the right, who despise you.

If we had terminated the event at this point...

Re-entry of the refugees

...we would have passed the joker to the left.

And I don't want to permit

a self-deceiving demonstration culture

the right to the finale.

You just have to wreck that.

In the morning it was, I can't even remember what I did that night.

If I had dreamed at all. Normally I dream a lot.

But on that morning I woke up and I was just exhausted.

It cracked and crumbled underneath my skin, like I had completely dried out.

There was nothing in me anymore. Then I dragged myself back to the square.

And when I arrived there, pure hell was breaking loose.

The whole thing had restarted. It was the need of this thing.

It was this fast breeder. It was this power plant.

These fuel rods deep inside Vienna. It didn't want to be shut down.

Schröder and Chirac were kissing each other just yesterday!

Despite not knowing who's the bigger one. Who is ruling the EU.

It is because there are six billion people on earth

and only eight million of them are Austrians!

And the six billion permanently threaten poor little Austria!

14 countries had to front against Austria. Isn't that embarrassing?

You may grease that Chirac-guy up your hair! And that Schröder-guy, too!

This little country Austria, barely eight million inhabitants,

has welcomed more foreigners, more refugees, than Germany!

The "provoceur" just drinks liquor! You should be learning your language, man!

But not your "classy" German! Here we talk our talk!

We have been lured enough already! It's enough now all right!

You won't pass language class and then your citizenship will be terminated!

We are talking on the streets here, so I am talking like a prole!

I'm talking like

Dear colleague, you can kiss my ass!

You know, what the Viennese expression for this is?

Kiss me in the valley of the winds!

So this is my closing statement God bless Austria!

The way, it has been told, since God bless Austria!

RICHARD SCHMITZ - ex-district chairman. Vienna, inner city, ÖVP

For sure, there were people that said, it would have been better

this event had never taken place.

But to prohibit such manifestations,

I do not want to call this art, would have been far worse than letting

things just happen like they were happening.

If the "Krone" Newspaper wouldn't have jumped on it

the whole thing would have drowned in the public mind.

Due to lack of provocation. Due to lack of artistry.

I think, the "Krone" just explicitly wanted to stake their claims on a clean

and proper Austrian super-nation. Like the song in the film "First April 2000":

"The sun shines the same for everyone! Why is Austria the one to blame?"

The "Krone" just wanted to make it clear, how they dominate the country.

And it doesn't fucking matter if it's SPÖ or FPÖ or ÖVP.

The "Krone" is the "Krone" and thus the main party of the country.

And whoever buys that paper in the morning, votes for that party.

And there is nothing to stop that process. This is the way I believe things to be.

Who we normally believe to be the ruling power is not.

Yellow press is the only real political party out there.

"Foreigners Out!" is a highly virulent instigation of the public!

I am sick of apologizing to my friends from abroad

that they have to read this "Foreigners Out!"-sign up there!

But you need not to apologize for something that is true!

Foreigners out! Foreigners out!

You are a fascist leftie!

Excerpts from the magazine "NEWS"

I reckon, the most characteristic development is

that those FPÖ-guys have become highly fashionable.

They have got the power now. They are all over the society pages.

They dominate the lifestyle mags.

They are the new idols.

Some years ago it was just Haider, who was the worshipped pop icon,

that bold little chap, who dares talking back at any cost.

Who bungee-jumps from the highest bridges.

The one fighting against those with established power.

Now there has grown a lot more of that specimen.

Chatroom of the event-website

We are dreaming. It is like way back in the fifties.

Art is central again for the political confrontation.

With an artistic idea, that is deeply connected to our reality.

These all are real people. These are real asylum seekers.

Real illegals, seeking official permission to stay.

DANIEL COHN-BENDIT - 68 icon and French politician, Green-party

Europe has reacted emotionally, because

Europe couldn't imagine how it can be that 50 years past the second world war

someone like Haider could openly participate in a civilized European government.

This reaction of Europe is legitimate

and we would be disgusted, if Europe had reacted any other way.

Honourable Mister Haider,

we seriously want to invite you to a conversation with the asylum seekers.

This date would definitely need your participation

and is of greatest importance, because it serves the communication

and collaboration within Europe.

Cordially yours, Christoph Schlingensief

After all we had also offered the stage to Haider.

The "Krone" completely shot off range on that.

It would have meant that there would have been equality of arms.

That was a setting he could not accept by all means.

Equality of arms for the first time. And then he chickened out.

Haider copped out!

The "Krone" completely missed the point in saying, this just was leftist group hysteria.

The stage also was open to the right-wingers.

Even to the head of them.

It then turned into a propaganda forum for the left. But it was not intended that way.

No African has a better life than here!

You liar! Just go into the prisons and look for foreigners there! Down at Wasa-Street!

Cause they all are stealing and they are living from hash!

When I go to Africa and open my mouth, I'll be killed immediately!

You don't need to tell me any truth!

Everyday it's in the papers, what you are doing to foreigners! Just kill them off!

Every day on television!

- That is a lie! - This is a lie?

- Where did that happen?! - In Africa!

- What country in Africa? - Yes! In your place!

You can't live anywhere as good as here!

You definitely need to learn, my friend!

- From you? - Yes! From me!!

HELENE PARTIK-PABLÉ - parliamentary deputy, FPÖ

Democracy gets burdened very often.

And it is also said very often democracy will endure all of this.

I also believe that. And democracy evidently has endured it.

Also the Austrians have endured it.

But I keep asking myself, is it really justified to throw another stone

when Austria is under attack already?

Do you really need to pour more fuel into the fire?

Oh well, they will endure it anyway.

BURGHART SCHMIDT - cultural philosopher

Democracy? That means decision of the majority!

Therefore it is completely democratic to decide by majority to get rid of democracy!

A perfect thought by all logic! But democracy is no formal logical term

but a term to define and secure certain political social realities.

This is the slight difference.

Straight on time, the next deportation is starting!

And another one! And another one! And another one!

All goes down in perfect flux! We need to rush

before the demo comes round the corner again!

Thank god, you buzz off again! Away to your Kraut brothers!

You won't stop us!

You are the loser! You are a discontinued model!

Dearest friends! It has become clear now!

The opposition is growing as the government is dying out!

I also want to be deported!

I also want to be deported! I am Austrian, but I also want to be deported!

Please help me! I also want to be deported!

You goddamned bastards! Resistance!

♪ Everybody talks about well-respected men. The little ones are forgotten ♪

♪ About big artists, papers write and write. Little men never get in sight ♪

♪ All raves about the Big, but the little men shtick never gets a kick ♪

♪ Something must happen for the little man! Without help he won't uncan the can! ♪

♪ He can't help the little man fuzz! If he could, he would be big like us...♪

Doesn't this gentleman fit your acting concept? Could we please hear him speak?

There is no deportation today! There is no deportation!

This is the real violence! Your violence!

Deportation is over! "Foreigners Out!" is over!

There is no deportation today! "Foreigners Out!" is over!

THE FINAL DAY

And in between it all are you, my Schlingensief!

Your touching tender looks!

Your bright children's eyes, that know no lie when looking onto this world!

That keep looking and looking and wondering, what all can exist in this world!

What kind of understanding is it to believe, art just walks into the world and

completely changes everything for the good or worse of it.

If this was the case, then I am asking myself, why politics

haven't replaced art a long, long time ago.

Why haven't politics gone into art business?

Then all these representatives can paint a nice picture.

They can tape it on the next poster pillar.

And I get enlightened when I'm passing on my bike.

Every problem in the world suddenly is solved.

No poverty anymore. No polluted environment.

Just because those nice pictures are hanging there.

What kind of delusion is this! This is rubbish! This doesn't interest me at all!

I am interested to invite a multitude

of systems to gather in a dance.

And that dance becomes the picture.

And the picture will remain there! For six or seven days!

And it still will be there in 10 years and in 100 years as well!

But if it changes the world or singular person is absolutely not relevant! Because

the ones asking for this to happen are the ones who will never change anything anyway!

Ladies and gentlemen, we are from the FPÖ "Foreigners Out!"

l am inviting all the tourists Photograph this sign!

It will keep hanging here for another five hours!

Peter Marboe, Vienna's cultural councillor, and his fascist friends may still come

and take this poster down! We will not prevent it!

We will wait for him with open arms! We will even help!

We will not say this work of art must not to be destroyed

cause there is no work of art!

We will simply support the destruction!

Still, five hours are left and it is thrilling to see what will happen!

Will Europe keep this picture in its mind?

Yes. The coalition wasn't even able to make a phone call.

OK! We want this sentence to vanish!

This is our goal! We want to take this down together!

The test is still running. For five hours.

Then we will all know what this coalition in Austria really wants.

And at this exact moment the music comes to an end!

What pathos! What a day!

To me Christoph is no manipulator of society. Christoph is no pied piper, gathering

the people with whatever pictures are at hand.

So that people would say yes and Amen and Schlingensief is our new "Fuehrer".

This is not the point.

I am never too sure, how many vanities were to be satisfied with this project.

How much real artistic intention was in there.

How much humanism and how much real care, compared to all the vanity.

I love glamorous people. Pop culture gives me a kick.

I think it's great, when they glitter and bath in their vanity.

If not, they should go work in a bank.

Thank you! It's an enormous push forward to encounter people like you!

You have to immediately buy a FPÖ-flag, take it into your hand

walk through the streets and kick a tourist. This is the method, ladies and gentlemen!

This is for free! Take a FPÖ-sticker!

Take FPÖ-whatever into your hand and kick a tourist!

Give him a good smack and "Foreigners Out!"

Just do it! And then you just kindly run away!

I am demonstrating! I am against it! Against it!

That's worth shit today! Resistance is over! You have to produce contradictions!

Where do you come from? Indonesia!

Tunisia? Hello! I am from the FPÖ! You see, that is how it works!

Back there are two Japanese ladies! See? They both need their faces punched in!

The Schlingensief-stories are extreme forms of social integration because

they are able to integrate even those, who are in serious danger to crack up

and start a large-scale terrorist or nihilist political act.

Thereby these tendencies get tied to the comparatively safe realm of art.

And that is why art is so magnificently assimilated, where it seems

to be not conforming to society at all.

I am a little therapist here.

A little head doctor in the hospital.

And I am proud of that, to carry my patients away from their lies for a short moment.

And then we can diagnose together.

And we can judge if there is recovery possible or not.

If he was a social therapist, then this whole enterprise has flopped.

It hasn't cleansed anything. Yes, I know, how this may be understood!

I don't want to have a battle of words.

I conceive "therapy" as a term for cleaning up, making healthy again.

But this event only revealed something.

And this is far more than we could have hoped.

-Let's begin. German lesson.

I am sad because I have problems!

I am sad because I have no food!

I am sad because I will be deported!

These are enemies against us!

Who is the bad one and who is the good?

That Schlingensief is an asshole! That is known since a hundred years!

Just look at that name! He's got V.D. in his brain!

These are some Bavarian colleagues whom I am taking for a sightseeing tour.

I told them, to really witness this town, we need to come right here.

Here it is great! Here we got a rumble! Here you get to know Vienna!

Yupp, here you get dead drunk in the right winged student tradition!

That's not us!

The great passion of right winged students is boozing up, right?

Yes! Correct! So the sorry rest of our brains will be drunken away!

Just look at that glorious German laugh! You know the flatheads?

Down at the zoo! Schönbrunn! Excellent!

That's where you belong! Schönbrunn!

Just look at that "Foreigners Out!"- sign! Who needs that?

Is that an ad for you Krauts?

You Kraut-friend! You Kraut-friend!

You Schröder-friend! You Schröder-friend!

Stoiber stands tall for us!

Haider doesn't stand!

That one can go to fucking hell!

Haider is falling already!

You behave! If he were with you guys, he would be chancellor already!

Hitler hadn't made it big over here, remember?

With you Krauts he was chancellor immediately!

Well, hasn't he got the Schlingensief!

Maybe he just got the clap in the head!

I am also for you staying here! You are a Kraut, right?

So please treat us like Austrians!

We are the most peaceful population on earth!

Look! I think you can compare it to pedagogics.

If I continuously tell a child that it is bad, that it is rotten

it may rebel for a short while.

But if you still continue with provoking it, OK!

Then I am bad and rotten, I guess!

And it will not react to anything else at all anymore!

This is the case I also see here!

In every other country you would have been jailed and executed already!

Here you can see what country Austria really is! We are a country of culture!

Listen to Mozart! Go to the opera!

Get the damn back home to Krautland! Go where you belong, you smart aleck!

Certainly you have witnessed, what I think is a positive thing.

That two people that weren't at ground zero of the event started to seriously

talk with each other. That also has happened.

Clearly a positive act.

Last day celebration and speeches with several guests

EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - German avant-garde rock legend

CONTAINER-SHOW COSTS MILLIONS

ls tax money paid to remain silent?

I think, taxpayer's money that is invested into art is there for confrontation!

CHARLES OFUEDO - writer, many times in detention

Art must be free! Shout it out! All of you! ART MUST BE FREE!

PETER PILZ - Austrian politician, Green-party

About this container there is a huge fuzz. Not about Rossauer drive and the barracks

just one km from here, where it is not an artist who stages such things.

PETER SELLARS - theater director

We need this project in Los Angeles.

Well, then he should do it. But he doesn't. He just screams and yells it.

And also Luc Bondy, whom I respect a lot and who unexpectedly discovers

the political fighter within himself, but who is all gone right after the project.

That's just the way it is!

I won't blame them for anything. But the funny thing is

I knew all this from the beginning.

We are now approaching our final deportation! I don't want to say much,

but to remember you of the container here at Vienna airport. This is a container

full of real refugees, seeking asylum. Waiting for a tough fate to happen.

And this container is not standing just here, but all over Europe. Everywhere are people,

who are not permitted to stay in the country they would like to stay in.

And there are a lot of instigators. People that put sentences up.

Certain sentences, that are said far too easily.

With which people forget far too soon that they had said them themselves.

Where they act surprised that they have been said.

To put these sentences into reality, to make them real and visible

was the intent of this project.

And the third one stepping inside the car is a person that has already spent

quite some time up here with us. He will also have to leave this country.

Christoph Schlingensief! Finally he's gone! Thank you! Bye bye!

And now the winner...

Austria's Darling...

Welcome, Ranil Shunta!

You - come - come here!

You - won! From - people! 35.000 bucks!

Give a warm round of applause to our big winner!

This banner up there is like everything

in life that offers resistance - art!

We are all artists!

Austrias new government raises taxes

and cuts social, cultural and educational budgets.

As a consequence the FPÖ loses lots of voters.

The ÖVP in contrast achieves consistent to increasing results.

In November 2001 the university of Innsbruck

Out of 2.000 studied people, 22% proved strong on xenophobia

26% were latent cases. 10% could be classified as part of the extreme right.

FOREIGNERS OUT SCHLINGENSIEF CONTAINER

Talk to the youth! With your people!

Then you will gain more knowledge

than by any of this bullshit here.

Talk to the people!

You only carry hate with you.

What weighs the people down?

How are you able to do any action today?

With television here, camera there.

A joke here editing it all out there!

Talk! You are all old enough.

You are still young! Talk with the youth!

What depresses all of you?

Then all these things, don t need to happen.

Switch on the Brain! Not the camera!

What do I need paper for? What do I need an artist for?

I am the master in my house.

Someone also said that a long time ago.

I will equip you. A piece of brain.

Eyes and ears. Now open up!

Who needs government? Who needs all of this?

You are the human being! Yes, you!!!

This is what we need to learn!

Then we will be able to live together again!

Then there won t be

Who is the foreigner? Who is the native?

We have forgotten to be human beings.

♪ Like a sunbeam it slips through every window sill ♪

♪ puts joy midts our daily grey on the bill ♪

♪ A little croon knocks on any door ♪

♪ No other croon flatters your ear more ♪

♪ Into each heart it slips. with each beat it kicks ♪

♪ until all the city swings ♪

♪ Into each heart it slips. with each beat it kicks ♪

♪ until all the city swings ♪