Morning Daily - ADD Bomb. [This bomb will explode in 1,000
years] 2004-2005, mixed media,
dimensions variablens variable
Untitled 2004 – 2005, carpet from Central Asia circa 1900,
military badges
The Last Supper, (after Leonardo da Vinci) 2003-2004, oil and acrylic
on canvas, dimensions variable.
installation view - The Last Supper, (after Leonardo da
Vinci) 2003-2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, dimensions variable.
installation view
(fragment) Speeding from Beautiful Infections 2004-2005
Low Resolution Man 2005, mixed media, dimensions variable.
installation view
installation view - Speeding from Beautiful Infections
2004-2005
Gasvagen from Blind Spots 2004 – 2005, digital print 72”x48”
| Blue Republic artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski
present new work testing the assumed limits of perception, fixed meanings
and the basics of experience in "Morning Daily,"
Blue Republic is participating in Canadian and international art scene
and collaborating with other art groups and centres of independent artistic
research around the world such as the Cultural Services Co-op and the
Bucklein Institute. As a group, artist members are practicing multi-disciplinary
art, performance and new strategies of artistic practice.
During WWII, German SS invented new device formurdering civilians,
by gassing them in specially altered vans, called gas vans. The Nazis
used poison gas to murder millions of human beings whom they deemed
undesirable. One of several methods used was the gas van. Such vans
were first deployed in 1940 in the “Euthanasia” operation.
Hitler delegated the “Euthanasia” operation to Reichsleiter
Philip Bouhler, Dr. Karl Brandt, and several doctors of their choice.
The targets were several German population groups: the mentally ill
or retarded, the chronically ill, and criminals. At first, the murders
were carried out in fixed, sealed chambers, into which carbon monoxide
gas was pumped from metal canisters. In addition, some were killed by
lethal injections and by shooting. Gas vans were first used in 1940,
when Polish mentally ill children were locked in a sealed van and killed
by carbon monoxide.
The RSHA office II D 3a was responsible for construction, employment,
drivers and provision with spare parts for the gas vans. During WW2
two types were used: small ones with more than 3t payload for about
50 persons (Diamond Reo ,Opel Blitz and Renault) and bigger ones with
approximately 5t payload for around 70 victims ( Saurer and Magirus
). The wagons had an airsealed car-body and looked like furniture vans.
With a removable tube the exhaust fumes could be lead into the car body.
A barred lamp could light up the interior. SS Obersturmbannführer
Walter Rauff was in charge of all Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei ) vehicles,
including gas vans.
Prior to gassing, the victims were ordered to hand over their valuables.
They then had to undress themselves and finally entered the gas vans.
The two doors at the back of the wagons were closed, the tube then locked
to the exhaust. To calm down the naked victims a lamp was switched on
for some minutes. The driver then started the motor, which ran in neutral
gear for about ten minutes. During this time the motor produced enough
carbon monoxide to suffocate the victims. As they were so crowded together
there was lack of air anyway. When the screaming and pounding had stopped,
the driver started the tour to the cremation site. There Jewish men,
who would not be permitted to remain alive, were forced to unload the
corpses and cremate them.
On a large scale gas vans were used by the Einsatzgruppen in Byelorussia
and the Ukraine. Here between 250,000 and 300,000 persons mainly Jews,
were killed by the use of these wagons. For example thousands of Jews
from the Minsk ghetto lost their lifes in gas vans which were stationed
at the extermination site Maly Trostinec , 12 km southwest of Minsk
. Approximately the same number of victims were gassed by the use of
gas vans at the Chelmno extermination camp near Lodz.
In addition there were also experimental trials at the Belzec extermination
camp. SS-Oberscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt and Siegfried Graetschus
, under the supervision of Christian Wirth , converted a grey painted
Post Office parcels delivery van into a mobile gassing van.
In the internment camp Zemun near Belgrade 6,280 Jews were killed by
a special command using gas vans.
About 500,000 - 600,000 persons had been killed in gas vans.
(This information is made available for educational purposes by several
websites documenting crimes against humanity committed by the Third
Reich during WWII)
Selected projects and presentations:
Waiting Room - Works From Future, Peak Gallery
Toronto.2004
TIAF 2004 Toronto International Art Fair
Shop, Public Access, York University,
20 hours Minneapolis – Tokyo, Flying Gallery, Officina America,
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, (with Evan Holloway, Arturo
Herrera, Lari Pittman, Louis Gispert, Karen Kilimnik, Fabian Marcaccio,
Jeff Ono). Fields of Dreams, Siem Riep, Cambodia, Fields of Dreams,
Rio de Janeiro. Blue Republic, Espace 502, in collaboration with Galerie
Rene Blouin, Montreal, Rencontres 98, Gallerie Julio Gonzalez, Paris,
France, Blue Republic, Oakville Galleries, Ideas Outside Ideology, Centre
of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, Die Andere Seite, Ludwig Forum
for International Art, Aachen, Germany.
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