English synopsis, 22.06.07.- (scroll down for images, für Deutsch siehe unten)

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English Synopsis 21.06.07 (scroll down for audio —2 files: "Sam's opinion about SPM07" and "Disclaimer: The Beggar is Innocent"—, für Deutsch siehe unten)

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English synopsis, Beggar's diary 20.06.07 .- scroll down for videos. - für Deutsch siehe unten

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English synopsis, 18 and 19.06.07 (für Deutsch siehe unten)

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(für Deutsch siehe unten)
The Beggar's Diary 17.06.07
The Beggar interviewed by a national American radio station (sorry we don't know the exact name of the station):
radio station- So, why were you selected to be The Beggar?
The Beggar- I'd like to send back the question to the American people: Why is someone selected?

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Opening Day .- (für Deutsch siehe unten)

In the next 120 days, from 10:00 to 20:00, I’ll be Filch, The Beggar. I ask myself how Brecht would have nicknamed Sculpture No. 6 of SPM07: the demander? the claimer? the requester? the pleader? I, personally, would have particularly liked “the petitioner”: the petitioner of recognition, of answers, of information, and, certainly, of money.

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"The spectacle produces spectators and thus protects itself from being questioned; it induces passivity rather than action, contemplation rather than thinking, and precipitates the degradation of life into materialism ... in advanced societies, material survival is not an issue, except for those who are kept poor in order to represent poverty."

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If the artist has passed, by a slow process, from the state of entertainer – pleasantly occupying people’s spare time- to the ambition of a prophet.

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I have received today the Kultur Spiegel. What are the chances for socially or politically engaged art when one places Brecht's words next to a recipe for kokospudding? Do not misunderstand me, I think it is very honorable (certainly for me!) to place Dreigroschenoper next to Kokospudding, but, doesn't it say a lot about the nature of the "grand cultural event" today?

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Can you imagine the character?

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