'An Enemy of the People'

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Arrested on a trumped up charge in 1939 by Joseph Stalin's secret police the NKVD, Lukasz Szpakowski spent the next two years as a slave labourer in the giant Russian system of penal camps, the Gulag.
Two years ago, aged 87, he was interviewed at length by his son, the UK composer and net artist Michael Szpakowski.
From those interviews, from images of his father and the camps, from fragments of Ukrainian folk music integrated into an original musical score,Michael Szpakowski has made a piece for the net which almost entirely lacks those qualities which have come to define Net Art.
No interactivity, self referentiality or irony but simply a gripping story, straightforwardly told -
an ordinary person's moving testimony of 'midnight in the twentieth century'.


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