"In Europe, social individuals need to come to terms with the "stranger within themselves" (Julia Kristeva) in order to meet the challenges of a world of crumbling borders and boundaries. In England, especially, the new political proximity of "Europe" has thrown into sharp relief notions of nationalism and the sanctioned view of the "other" (race, religion, person, etc.) reinforced by a history of colonialisms. Certain myths of national character are proving unsustainable, and nowhere is this clearer than in the status of the Royal Family. The installation "Class" in Berlin is adapted from its original 1990 form. In a class-room symbolically barricaded from the invasion of the "other", the ritual sorrounding the Queen's television Address to the nation is de-constructed and re-contex- tualised to highlight its increasingly vain, propagandist move. Children's voices reiterate the simple desire to speak and think freely whilst monumental inscribed rulers define limits of status, thought and action." (Andrew Stones)