Adriana Czernin / « Gang (Walk) »

 / Published décembre 2001

Zwei Beine bewegen sich durch einen Raum. Ihr Gang ist durch einen bestimmten Umstand behindert, nicht frei. Auch stossen die Beine immer wieder an die Ränder des gefilmten Raums, werden immer wieder in den Raum zurückgeworfen, sind im Raum eingesperrt. Als jener Umstand, der den Gang behindert, wegfällt, sind die Beine befreit und können den Raum verlassen.

Two legs move through a room. Their walking whilst hindered by a certain circumstance, is not free. The legs bump again and again against the borders of the filmed room, are again and again thrown back into the room, are locked up in the room. When the circumstance, that hinders the walking disappears, the legs are freed and are able to leave the room.

Adriana Czernin (born in 1969 in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Vienna.

The DVD is inserted in a book designed by the artist. The book and the DVD are slipped in a case.

Anna Jermolaewa / « Ass Peeping » (movie)

 / Published janvier 2004

“There is no rest for the weary ; we’re lost, we drop blindly hour by hour, we who suffer, tossed like water from cheek to cheek, for long years thrown into uncertainty” : such might assuredly be the enchanting Schicksalslied of Anna Jermolaewa’s take on the urban scene in her last book Ass peeping from onestar press. The contemporary reader here finds him/herself confronted with a multitude of rearends that make faces, in the literal sense of Catherine M. (for whom the anatomical center is the ontological center with which communication is immediate and unmediated). This invitation to investigate deeply also pushes us to move forward, to openly follow, without any hope of ever being able to see the other side of the dream decor. So let us dream, but let us also move on. He who follows is surely the foundation of he who leads.
Philippe Buschinger