Bootleg – Vol. 1 (extract 13’ of 90’)

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The video work «Bootleg Vol. 1» is composed of four single videos—presented in split screen mode. Each recording documents the venue of a concert, while the event is on from beginning to end. All filming is done outside of the locations. Each site is captured from various angles. The video recording usually concludes with the crowd coming out of the event. Architecture and cityscape are predominate features along with concert sound that sometimes spill over. Topics as atmospher, aura and the original (real) are elements that interact with the work.

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The term bootlegging originally came from concealing hip flasks of alcohol in the legs of boots.

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In the summer of 1969 a strange new Bob Dylan double LP hit record store shelves in a plain white sleeve. The words “GF 001/2/3/4” were stamped on the cover, though later editions were called Great White Wonder. One record consisted of the tracks from the long-rumored Basement Tapes, while the other one was largely folk covers taped live in 1961. Nobody realized it at the time, but it was the first commercially available bootleg.

Great White Wonder flew off shelves, kicking off the age of the rock & roll bootleg. In the four decades since, Dylan has been bootlegged more than any other artist. In 1991 he decided to beat the bootleggers at their own game by releasing the three-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3. He’s since put out six more volumes (always with better sound quality than what’s previously circulated), but it’s done nothing to stop the flood of underground releases. (Rolling Stone, May 19, 2011)

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Bootleg – Vol. 1 (duration of original version 90 min.)

• Bootleg#2 – Barbra Streisand: Waldbühne, Berlin, June 30, 2007
• Bootleg#5 – Lil Wayne, (Rick Ross supporting act), The Coca-Cola Dome, Johannesburg, December 9, 2011
• Bootleg#7 – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Olympiastadion, Berlin, May 30, 2012
• Bootleg#9 – MADONNA, Letzigrundstadion, Zurich, August 18, 2012