Hanspeter Ilg, Jeanine Osborne, Andrzej Kowalski & Martin Kunz, Schauen Sie mich an Herr Direkter, 1999

The text for this musical composition is taken from the diaries and poems of Hans Peter Ilg, a Swiss man who has spent most of his life in a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. The thirty five minute work will be played over the sound system in the church during the exhibition. The recording begins with an account of the trauma of the outsider poet’s birth followed by an account of major events that seem to have contributed toward his current experience of madness. The work transforms the handwritten autobiographical text into consoling song interrupted occasionally by disturbing and jarring sounds which correspond with the poet’s life story.