joaoflux / digital / analog / culture

At the last event of the RAF exhibition’s accompanying program Bettina Allamoda and her guests Claudia Basrawi and Ted Gaier discussed in how far they were coined by the permanent presence of revolutionary poses in their childhood and early teens. All three of them are born in the early 60s. They showed excerpts from TV talk shows and performances by mainstream pop stars of the time to prove how usual and broadly accepted the idea that revolution was a necessity was at the time.

The Fact that the RAF exhibition was widely discussed and in some ways a success seems to imply that today there is also some room for revolution in mainstream culture. At some point Ted Gaier (half seriously) even suggested that all RAF protagonists who appear in the exhibition should be payed.

A friend, who published a photo book on the topic, told me that photo agencies charge fees for photos that were originally taken by RAF members or that are of obscure origin. Sometimes those photos were simply recorded from public television.