HYPERGHETTO

Christoph Korn, 2002

Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, 2002
Editor: Manfred Hess
Web Development & Design: Martin Kliehm
Audio-Realization: Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn,
13 December 2002, 23:05-24:00 h at Hessischer Rundfunk,
hr2, "crossover sound", Frankfurt/Germany

comment:

Start of Hyperghetto:

2 November 2002

Numbers at the top =

GMT (years:days:hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds)

Numbers of the citys =

number of murders in the citys in relationship to the time

statistics:

Baixada Fluminense (district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):

189 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 3.2 million

Barcelona (Spain):

3.2 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 1.5 million

Berlin (Germany):

2.9 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 3.3 million

Caracas (Venezuela):

154 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 1.9 million

Hong Kong (China):

1.9 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 5.5 million

Lagos (Nigeria):

1.08 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 1.3 million

London (England):

1.0 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 7.4 million

Medellin (Columbia):

210 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 1.8 million

Moskow (Russia):

25.6 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 8.4 million

Natal (South-Africa):

176 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 2.8 million

New York (USA):

28.3 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 7.3 million

Sidney (Australia):

2.0 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 3.7 million

Singapore (Singapore):

1.5 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 1.2 million

Soweto (South Africa):

193 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 2.1 million

Stockholm (Sweden):

0.3 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 718 thousend

Tokyo (Japan):

2.6 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 11.7 million

Wentworth (district of Chicago, USA):

106.1 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 54 thousend

Western Cape (South Africa):

87.4 murders per 100,000 population. Inhabitants: 4.1 million

texts:

• Frantz Fanon. Concerning Violence. In The Wretched of the Earth. New York, 1961.
• Frantz Fanon. Über Gewalt. In Die Verdammten dieser Erde. Frankfurt am Main, 1966.
• Speech by Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black African Writers (1959)
• Loïc J.D. Wacquant über Gewalt im US-amerikanischen GhettoLoïc J.D.
• Wacquant: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration (PDF)

links:

• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
• Postcolonial Theories

feedbacks:
"...a provocative way of formulating the problem!" (Loic J.D. Wacquant/Soziologe, u.a. Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant: Das Elend der Welt)
"Hyperghetto works not just as political art but also as an experiment in the medium” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
" Hyperghetto is not a theoretical discussion forum, it is an unsettling internet installation, filled with links and lists, old and new texts, comments and reflections on the theme of postcolonialism… an artistic product, nourished by sufficient anger, knowledge, and historical consciousness…” (Frankfurter Rundschau)

realizations at:
12/02 radio station Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt (D)
8/03 media art festival FILE HIPERSÔNICA 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1/04 festival for conteporary music Paradox Festival, Tillburg (NL)
6/04 media art Festival Tourist City, Bremen
2/06 Mousonturm Frankfurt, broadcasted at arist corner, Hessischer Rundfunk
3/06 art space Parkhaus, Düsseldorf (D)

Movie: HYPERGHETTO as a room based sound installation at art space"Parkhaus", Düsseldorf, 2006

www.christophkorn.de