Group Exhibition, University of Toyama, Japan December 2017

In the Video-Installation with Tokine Atsuta (Video) we discuss the adoption of the §175 in the German Criminal Code in 1871-1994 and it´s pendant in Japan, article 266 from 1873-1881 in reference to the current developments concerning the issues.

The latest news showed that in Chechnya gay men were kidnaped and abducted into Concentration – Camps where they were tortured and some of them died. The Chechnya president Ramzan Kadyrov commented: “you cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic”… “If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn’t need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning” For a quite a while neither the media nor the politics reacted on that it even seemed as if they tried to ignore the facts. Of cause the political situation is tricky (as usual), but can we compare or even satisfy the situation with human lives?