<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Das Kapital - Distillation by Dan Mihaltianu</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">13.01.2016 / 19:00 - 23:00 / Landmark / Bergen Kunsthall / Rasmus Meyers allé 5, 5015 Bergen, Norway</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">“Das Kapital - Distillation” is a performative event dedicated to Karl Marx’s work, following the pattern of John Latham’s work “Art and Culture”, 1966-69 (the distillation of Clement Greenberg’s book). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">The public is invited to chew pages from “Das Kapital”, after reading and memorizing them and afterwards spitting the pulp into a glass container. The resulting mixture will be distilled in front of the audience and bottled. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Marx’s work is indestructible. All the copies are just paper (for recycling), his real work is of spiritual nature - immaterial (encrypted in the collective memory). By reading and memorizing the pages, each participant becomes a word, a sentence or a chapter of “Das Kapital” and together “Das Buch” (remember Fahrenheit 451). In order to have access knowledge, we have to dismantle the material form in which ideas are kept prisoners. Symbolically, a book has to be first ingested and afterwards digested (distilled). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>