DIETER BEYELSCHMIDT
Die Gedanken sind frei

1987

2 monitors, copier [modified], 4:3 color video*, no sound, brick-wire mesh, 4 lintels, 2 wooden beams, 4 window iron shutters guards

*Director · Writer : Rosy Beyelschmidt
*Writer · VFX · Editor : Dieter Beyelschmidt

at: Kaos-Galerie, Cologne, DE · 1987


Thoughts are free, who can guess them?
They fly by like nocturnal shadows.
No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them
with powder and lead: Thoughts are free!

I think what I want, and what delights me,
still always reticent, and as it is suitable.
My wish and desire, no one can deny me
and so it will always be: Thoughts are free!

And if I am thrown into the darkest dungeon,
all these are futile works,
because my thoughts tear all gates
and walls apart: Thoughts are free!
- Armin and Brentano, ca. 1805 -