Transmission

The cost of cheap meat is too high; the focus on ‘wild’ meat (game) a camouflage. The virus cannot believe its luck, transmission in battery farms, production line slaughterhouses and deforested land all too easy.

In Meat you hear the voices of Uinsionn MacDubhgail, Bernhard Dechant and Maxence Dautrey
Music composed and performed by Milly Grosz, lyrics Barker&Doujak
Jingle by Maja Osojnik
Sound editing, mixing and mastering by Michael Jellasitz
Written and produced by John Barker and Ines Doujak for the Liverpool Biennial 2020–21
With quotes from Upton Sinclair, Jose Maria Aguerdas, Charles Bukowski and Arundhati Roy

The class structure of the present pandemic highlights the inequalities of the globe. While the rich escape in private jets and into bunkers, the poor have to choose between starvation or infection, dying in numbers, to be deposited in experimental coffins.

In Class you hear the voices of Ceri Ashe, Fani Arampatzidou, Eoin O’Cearnaigh and Esmeralda
Music with lyrics by Barker&Doujak composed and performed by Meta Meta
Jingle by Maja Osojnik
Sound editing, mixing and mastering by Michael Jellasitz
With quotes from Eduardo Galeano
With song excerpts from Cousin Mosquito by Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker
Written and produced by John Barker and Ines Doujak for the Liverpool Biennial 2020–21

Two people weave in and out of their lives, neighbourhoods, diseases of the past, the promises and expectations of religion and science. They think of scary judgments passed on people as functional or surplus to the needs of capitalist defined production, of the vulnerability of non-productionist Indigenous societies, seek brief solace in poetic justice but find that not all beginnings have an end.

In Forked Tongue you hear the voices of Ines Doujak and John Barker
Jingle by Maja Osojnik
Sound editing, mixing and mastering: Michael Jellasitz
Written and produced by Ines Doujak and John Barker for the Liverpool Biennial 2020–21

This is about the landless, disease-spreading vagabond, with renewed prominence in today’s political discourse; about labour discipline; about infections and contamination, both used as crossover between actual diseases and markers of the political other, the inside and the outside of the body; and about colonial and class attacks. As in the past a dehumanizing language of disease, parasites and infestation have entered a political vocabulary directed at migrants and minorities.

In Blame you hear the voices of Laszlo Vancsa, Mukul Patel, Ceri Ashe, David Jacques, Maria Höninger, David Panos, Kanellos Daveros, Alberto Durango, Marlene Jiminez, Michael Ranocha, Fani Arampatzidou, Manu Luksch, Herman Seibold, Ciaran O’Cearnaigh, Natalie Hamrlik, Anja Büchele and Roisin O’Ocearnaigh
Music with lyrics by Barker & Doujak, composed and performed by Maja Osojnik who also created the jingle
Sound editing, mixing and mastering by Michael Jellasitz
Written and produced by John Barker and Ines Doujak for the Liverpool Biennial 2020–21
With quotes from Arundhati Roy, Ai Xiaoming and Eduardo Galeano

The ferret and the prisoner play an unrequited role and victory is wrongly claimed. The armies of the world see bio-weapons and bio-defence but the virus born in deranged landscapes and encouraged by incontinent trade knows no borders. Vaccine promises play the stock market and promise that we do not need to change our ways.

In Vaccine you hear the voices of Serena Swanson, Marina Vishmidt and Danny Hayward
The music with lyrics by Doujak&Barker was composed by Volkmar Klien and sung by
Christine Gnigler (Soprano), Lorina Vallaster (Alto), Joachim Rigler (Tenor)
Jingle by Maja Osojonik
Sound editing, mixing and mastering by Michael Jellasitz
Written and produced by Ines Doujak and John Barker for the Liverpool Biennial 2020–21