THE DISPLACEMENT
An Action in Three Movements

-This is the compilation of documents, films, books, images and diverse material for the ongoing project The Displacement-

Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic in 1986. It consists of a rectangular wooded park with a large, circular paved area in the centre with a sculpture consisting of larger-than-life bronze figures of Karl Marx (sitting) and Friedrich Engels (standing), the founders of the Communist movement.

The sculpture was moved a few meters in 2010 because of the construction of the subway. This is the physical displacement to which I refer in the title. But the sculpture not only moved from its original position, neither Marx and Engels look to the Alexanderplatz as usual, but the figures see for the first time the area where stood the Palace of the Republic and now stands a temporary building of futuristic ambition, promoting and raising money for the reconstruction of the prussian Royal Palace.

It is an ideological battleground where the spatial speculation consist in the domain of the symbols. Here each element has a symbolic importance as perhaps nowhere else in Europe and every gesture can be looked as a sign, symptom and pathology of the current crisis of the totalitarian capitalism.

The Displacement consists in a series of three actions around the sculptures of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Berlin, Germany. Each action emphasizes three aspects of the human conflict between Eros and civilization, between the repression of sexual instincts and desexualization of minds, and the liberation of the " pleasure principle".

Mov. 1: Romantic Love versus Administration of Domination
Mov.2: Desire versus Administration of Alianation
Mov. 3: Prostitution versus Administration of Gratification