{"id":51420,"date":"2026-02-06T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=51420"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:54:50","slug":"fresh-kill-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/event\/fresh-kill-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Kill \u2013 Film screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"tec_event_single_static\" data-elementor-id=\"51420\" class=\"elementor elementor-51420\" data-elementor-post-type=\"tribe_events\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c74849 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1c74849\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ea338f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ea338f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the occasion of her current survey exhibition <em>KI$$ KI$$<\/em>, the Ludwig Forum presents the first feature film <em>Fresh Kill<\/em> (1994; Original English version) by Taiwanese American artist Shu Lea Cheang.<\/p><p><em>Fresh Kill<\/em> weaves cyberpunk, satire and political activism into a radical critique of toxic capitalism and digital surveillance. The setting is Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, which was once the largest landfill site in the world and received all of New York City\u2019s refuse until 2001. The focus is on the queer couple, Shareen and Claire, who live with their five-year-old daughter near the landfill. While Shareen works as a garbage scavenger, Claire earns the family\u2019s living as a waitress at the Naga Saki sushi restaurant in Manhattan. When their daughter mysteriously disappears one day after eating a radioactive contaminated fish, they team up with sushi chef and hacker Jiannbin Lui and with poet and dishwasher Miguel Flores. Together, they begin to uncover a conspiracy of environmental pollution and media manipulation, behind which lies the involvement of the multinational corporation GX Corporation.<\/p><p>Cheang\u2019s feature film debut is also the starting point of her current exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen. A recurring motif in the film is the flickering neon sign reading <em>KI$$ KI$$<\/em>, a double entendre fusion of \u201ckiss kiss\u201d and \u201ckill kill\u201d. According to the artist, the prop on display in the exhibition symbolises the simultaneity of love and destruction towards the environment and nature.<\/p><p>Free admission.<\/p><p>The evening of 5 March starts at 6pm with a guided tour through the exhibition in German with curatorial assistant Wiebke Wiesner. You can participate in both events consecutively or separately.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Credits: Film poster of Shu Lea Cheang, <em>Fresh Kill<\/em> (1994). 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