Progressive Culture Works Exhibition 1992: Cannibalism

Singing Sausages
sausage casings, wax, headphones,
with soundtrack engineered by Carlos Vivanco, 1992

The soundtrack was recorded by people singing the popular children's song
about the German Killer Fritz Haarmann onto my telephone answering machine.

The Lyrics translated:

IN HANOVER ON THE LEINE
STRIPPEN STRASSE NUMBER EIGHT
LIVES THE KILLER HAARMANN
WHO MAKES SAUSAGE OUT OF KIDS

WAIT JUST WAIT A LITTLE WHILE
SOON COMES HAARMANN ALSO TO YOU
WITH HIS HANDY LITTLE AXE
HE KNOCKS SOFTLY ON YOUR DOOR

FROM THE BELLIES HE MAKES SAUSAGE
FROM THE HEAD HE MAKES THE CHEESE
FROM THE GUTS HE MAKES PATÉ
AND THE REST HE THROWS AWAY

WAIT JUST WAIT A LITTLE WHILE...

Sound track

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