In their 2009 feature film The Yes Men Fix the World (87 min.), the artist duo The Yes Men document their interventions at events, congresses, conferences and press conferences. Using fake websites and wearing suits as disguises, they pretend to be representatives of large companies or important organizations and sell their colleagues and press representatives the most incredible news and business ideas, which they usually receive without astonishment.

The Yes Men show what goes on behind the scenes of the globalized corporate world and what hair-raising decisions could be and often are made. Their actions are unbelievably funny, but the audience’s laughter usually gets stuck in their throats when they see that others take everything very seriously and are happy to participate. In this way, the Yes Men criticize without moralizing at the same time – their actions and their results do that all by themselves.

The film was shown very successfully in cinemas and at film festivals such as the Berlinale 2010. The Edith Russ House for Media Art is showing The Yes Men Save the World in the wake of the exhibition Culture(s) of Copy, which ended on 20 February, and thus once again a sensational approach in which a simple fake and the copying of identities reveal the structures of globalized society.