United Colors Of Abuse Poem by Andreas Classen

"What Color Is Abuse? " was the title of an international art-project I was invited to join. Artists of diverse genres worked about the topic of abuse.
My contribution was a text-flag and an audio-installation. The flag can be seen in a small version here. The original is 3 meters tall.
The installation played back recordings of myself presenting my texts on the topic on eight tracks in eight different places throughout the room, not filling the entire space with sound but adressing the visitors from time to time very personally when and in a way they did not expect it.
The exhibition was in October 2013 in Düren in the Marienkirche (=St. Mary's Church.
Yes that is a catholic church that is still being normally used for mass.