Ever since spending 2 plus years in prison (1965-67), during which time I concluded that America - and any culture - could at any time institute systems equivalent to the KZ (extermination camp) system of Nazi Germany. It was merely a matter of giving the order - cultures do not lack for mechanisms and persons willing and often eager to carry out abuses against other humans; they need only the authorization from their governmental bodies to commence.
Vergessensfuge is the result of this long pondering. It offers no answers, no solutions. It meditates on the corpus and asks the viewer to do the same.
As such it perhaps is emblematic of the failure of art in the face of human reality.
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