Duration: 28:19 min

"200 Nations" is a cut up of the live commentary of a german TV reporter, which he made during the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Sydney in september 2000. He comments on the marching in of the participating nations and introduces every country with a short stereotyped description of its social, political, cultural and geographic characteristics.
"... seen from an unreflected, white point of view one stereotype follows after another, a sound track of "western" power with colonialistic features."
(quoted from a text by Silvia Eiblmayr)

Attached is a short part of the audio piece:
200 Nations (1:39 min, 1,0 MB)

© Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger