2000s
At the 2000 Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, Haacke presented a piece that is a direct reaction to art censorship. The piece called Sanitation featured six anti-art quotes from US political figures on each side of mounted American flags.The quotes were in a Gothic style script typeface once favored by Hitler's Third Reich. On the floor was an excerpt of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of speech and expression. Lined up against the wall were a dozen garbage cans with speakers emitting military marching sounds. Haacke claims that "Freedom of expression is the focus of the work".
Read more about this topic: Hans Haacke, Systems Work (1970-present)