In this interactive installation a scene taken from Paul Garrin's video "Free Society" is projected on the wall, which is fenced off by bars and barbed wire. Through the windows of the room, in which the cocktail party takes place, one can see heroic images of parading police and military units.
This presentation of power is contrasted with images of violence and suppression, which originate from the conflicts in South Africa, the West Bank, South Korea, Northern Ireland, Panama and from the "Civil Rights Riots" during the sixties in Alabama, Chicago and in 1988 in New York City.
The party guests are sipping their champagne while in front their door demonstrators are brutally beaten up by military police. The representatives of the upper class remain completely indifferent towards these scenes. On the monitor which stands behind the bars and in front of the projected scene an Alsatian is shown. As soon as the visitor enters the room, the dog traces him or her through an infrared system and starts to loudly and aggressively defend its quarter and the party guests.