WHAT IS LIFE? or: SAME TIME EVERY SATURDAY
An exhibition of photographs by George McKane in Naturfreundehaus altitude house.

"What is life?" "It's great to be an Evertonian!" So George McKane answered this question from a song by George Harrison. George McKane was born in 1948 at Liverpool's working-class district Everton. Since then, his heart is not in time with Liverpool, this once important port of the British Empire, from which millions emigrants encouraging eighth on the great ocean in the "new world" to America. Many of them were Irish, who came first from Ireland to Liverpool, as the family of George McKane. How many Irish people were caught in the McKanes in Liverpool, found work on the docks and went along with tens of thousands of Irish immigrants Liverpool for a long time outside of Ireland to the Irish capital. Many of them lived in poor conditions, and the apartment blocks of Everton have long been the worst in the entire city. However, despite or perhaps because of poverty and difficult living conditions, the Irish dominated its life force in the culture of Liverpool on labor solidarity, music and football still sustainable. So George McKanes heart beats not only in tune with the city of its origin, but also for Everton. Those steeped in tradition, founded in 1878 football team, which is in the district of Everton at home and traditionally plays in blue jerseys, nine English championships five times and won the English Cup final.

"What is life?" "It's great to be an Evertonian!" So George McKane answered this question from a song by George Harrison. George McKane was born in 1948 at Liverpool's working-class district Everton. Since then, his heart is not in time with Liverpool, this once important port of the British Empire, from which millions emigrants encouraging eighth on the great ocean in the "new world" to America. Many of them were Irish, who came first from Ireland to Liverpool, as the family of George McKane. How many Irish people were caught in the McKanes in Liverpool, found work on the docks and went along with tens of thousands of Irish immigrants Liverpool for a long time outside of Ireland to the Irish capital. Many of them lived in poor conditions, and the apartment blocks of Everton have long been the worst in the entire city. However, despite or perhaps because of poverty and difficult living conditions, the Irish dominated its life force in the culture of Liverpool on labor solidarity, music and football still sustainable. So George McKanes heart beats not only in tune with the city of its origin, but also for Everton. Those steeped in tradition, founded in 1878 football team, which is in the district of Everton at home and traditionally plays in blue jerseys, nine English championships five times and won the English Cup final.

 

So George McKanes heart beats not only in tune with the city of its origin, but also for Everton. Those steeped in tradition, founded in 1878 football team, which is in the district of Everton at home and traditionally plays in blue jerseys, nine English championships five times and won the English Cup final.
Like all diehard football fans, for football and life are one, McKane visited since his youth every home game of Everton FC. Every Saturday, same time. He walks like. Most Liverpool with friends there, with his son and his grandson For over forty years, he and his friends meet before the games always in the same pub in Everton, not far from the stadium, the Goodison Park, away. This pub has since changed as little as has changed in McKanes love for Everton FC and Liverpool something. For theater educators and storytellers McKane is the Everton a synonym for what constitutes life: family, community spirit, love and friendship, vibrant energy and soothing sentimentality, the seamless transition of wit and deeper meaning, the taste of beer, friendship and the force of tradition and memory in the current experience.

It is primarily the community of men who come every Saturday in the pub and the football stadium together. The Saturdays recurring ritual of football will be an important element in the self-image of a male identity. "The dark house", "The Dark House" now they call their pub, which has remained the same over the years, stable place. They appear to have a kind of dark cave mother in a postmodern world where everything changes at ever increasing speed, also in Liverpool. A few years ago George McKane has begun to photograph the people in the pub before and after the home games of Everton FC. He shows them in conversation and in quiet moments, in agitated movements and staged poses, in situations of euphoria and sadness.

 

There are simple photos, made without artistic intention and of the utmost sincerity documentary. And since George McKane is part of the Community, there are photos of great immediacy and intimacy. You get much more than the love of football club Everton expressed. They show a piece of Liverpool lived everyday reality. And they show what the psychoanalyst C.G. once prompted Liverpool to call "the pool of life." A small selection of these now many thousands of photographs, which have arisen in the "Dark House" is, in Naturfreundehaus Höhenhaus unveiled at a public exhibition.

Naturfreundehaus Höhenhaus

Honschaftsstrasse 330, 51061 Cologne, Tel: 0221-6309461 and Tel: 02202-50117
26th September to 15 November 2012
Opening: 26 September, 19.30 clock
Open: Wed 19-22 clock