Learn German with Petra von Kant : Eat Fear / Ming Wong / 2007-2008

Bibliographic Record

Access Point

MA.WM.40

Title and Statement of Responsiblity

Learn German with Petra von Kant :  Eat Fear = Lerne Deutsch mit Petra von Kant: Angst Essen / Produced, directed and performed by Ming Wong.

Summarization of Content

DVD containing documentation of two works by Ming Wong: Learn German with Petra von Kant (2007) and Eat Fear (2008) which were inspired by German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 

Learn German with Petra von Kant (2007) (duration 10 mins) saw Ming Wong learning to speak and act like a German by emulating the Margit Carstensen in the role of fashion designer Petra von Kant in Rainer Werner Fassbinder´s 1972 film Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant). The work was created shortly before the artist's move to Germany and was "an exercise for a self-designed “integration course” in Germany". 

Eat Fear (2008) (duration 27 mins) was created during Ming Wong's residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Inspired by the Turkish community in Berlin, the film was a reconstruction of Rainer Werner  Fassbinder movie, Angst essen Seele auf [Fear Eats the Soul] (1973), which looks at a romance that develops between an elderly German women and a Moroccan migrant worker in Germany after the 2nd World War and the discrimination they faced. In Ming Wong's work, the artist plays all the roles in the story, speaking in an approximate German. Playing the roles in an unfamiliar language, the artist turns each of the figures into an 'other' and reflects on identity and alterity. 

Publication/Production/Distribution Information

: Ming Wong , 2007/2008

Extent

1 DVD

Content Form and Media Type

two-dimensional moving image : digital video

Location

esea contemporary Library Collection ➔ On Request ➔ Artists publications

Access and Use

Conditions on Access

This publication is available by request in the esea ResearchLab for non-commercial private research use.

Related Information

People and Organisations

Wong, Ming, (b.1971), artist

Keywords & Terms

two-dimensional moving images ; German ; polychrome ; Sound ; DVDs ; digital video ; On site ; video art ; films (visual work)

Descriptive Note

Note

Formerly numbered M.026

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