ONE MILLION YEARS (PAST AND FUTURE) / 2002
by On Kawara
Directed by Oliver Augst and Christoph Korn
Radioplay-Production: Hessischer Rundfunk
Duration 32 hours
First broadcast: August 28, and September 4, 2002 / Hessischer Rundfunk /
hr2 / D
CD-Edition, On Kawara: One Million Years, 32 CDs in a box, www.hoerverlag.de,
ISBN 3-89940-035-6
Liner notes by Okwui Enwezor
Live-Realization for Documenta11 / Fridericianum / Kassel 2002 / D
with Michaela Ehinger and many more
Past: "For All Those Who Have Lived and Died"
Future: "For the Last One"
Native German speakers read in English and all odd numbers were read by men,
all even numbers by women. Each recording session was exactly 60 minutes.
The "Past" and the "Future" segments were recorded alternately
in each recording session.