UdK Berlin Rundgang 2021

IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

Jakoba Ciska Suselbeek

In tapes recently released by the New York Times, Donald Trump said that his favorite song of all time is Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?“ This fact has lead me to create this work which deals with the topics of failure, weakness and supposed strength. In her book „Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man“ Mary L.Trump wrote about her uncle Donald Trump, that he is incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others, he learned from his father to despise weakness. „It is an epic tragedy of parental failure that my uncle does not understand that he or anybody else has intrinsic worth.”

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