THE END IS NIGHT: ESCAPE GUILT

Interview Gran Fury

"We started at a time when there were almost no reasonable discussions about AIDS in public, only fearmongering and stigma. Therefore, our task was to demand a more reasoned debate, demand action by publicly elected officials, and to highlight the discrimination that people with AIDS experienced. These were messages that could be broken down..."

Portrait Otto Muehl

"The psychoanalytic lesson would seem to be that what culture wars embody is the struggle between identification, dis-identification, and re-identification. The commune is an attempt to get beyond this endless dialectic. Even if the commune fails, at the very least, it wants to imagine that we can be a group that does not identify with authority and power, that does not reproduce the same sick bonds, so easily displaced into the economic realm and commodified."