The limited edition (/100) vinyl record features the sound recordings taken during Santiago Sierra’s expeditions to the North and South Poles, respectively. The sound recording was produced with the support of Sennheiser and with the assistance of Leandro Fresco, Stephan Matschke & Peter Nikolai. All records feature a signed and numbered poster by Santiago Sierra.

Black Flag (2015) takes the form of an immersive photographic and sound installation documenting the process and performance of planting the universal symbol of the anarchist movement – the black flag – at the two most extreme points on earth: the North and South Poles. Black Flag reflects on the issues of territorial control, imperialism and state control.

Santiago Sierra, born in Madrid, 1966, graduated in Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University and completed his artistic training in Hamburg, where he studied under professors F. E. Walter, S. Brown and B. J. Blume. His beginnings as an artist are found in the alternative art circuits in Madrid although he would go on to develop much of his career in Mexico and Italy. His work has persistently exerted a significant influence on artistic literature and criticism through his reveal of perverse networks of power that cause the alienation and exploitation of workers; the injustice of labour relations; the unequal distribution of wealth produced by the capitalist system; the iniquitous paradox of work and money; and pandemic racial discrimination in a world scored with unidirectional migratory flows.]

Edition of 100 | 2 x 12” Vinyl Record
Insert: Black Flag Poster
Released on: a/political label
Dimensions: 220 x 280mm