Ján Mancuška, ‘800 Ways to Describe a Chair’ (2004)
Multiple gunshots are taken at a chair sitting against a wall. After the wall has been marked, the chair is removed, leaving its silhouette behind.
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Sophie Giraux
Sophie Giraux, ‘Hat’s gemacht’
(Transl.: ‘EVERYONE SAID IT’S NOT POSSIBLE. THEN SOMEONE CAME, HE DIDN’T KNOW THAT AND HE DID IT’)
Catalin Mitulescu
Catalin Mitulescu, ‘Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii’ (The way I spent the end of the world) (2006)
Tragi-comic coming-of-age tale, set in 1989 Romania, which follows 17 year old Eva and her younger brother Lilu. After knocking down a bust of Ceausescu by accident, Eva is sent to a technical school where she meets Andrei, with whom she plans to escape communist Romania by swimming across the Danube into Yugoslavia and relocate to Italy. Meanwhile, Lilu and his friends volunteer for a children’s choir scheduled to sing for Ceausescu, hoping this will give them a chance to assassinate the dictator.
Alex van Warmerdam
Alex van Warmerdam, ‘De Noorderlingen’ (‘The Northerners’) (1992)
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.
Olaf Nicolai
Olaf Nicolai, ‘The Blondes’ (2003)
The photographs were taken during the month that Olaf Nicolai ran a beauty parlor in the center of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He offered to bleach visitors’ hair free of charge, in exchange for the permission to use images of them in his work.
Janek Schaefer
‘Recorded Delivery’, by Janek Schaefer (1995)
A sound activated tape recorder travels overnight through the UK Post Office. The dictaphone automatically edits the 15 hour journey down to a 72min recording, capturing only the significant sounds right up until the parcel is signed for at the end, where it is to be exhibited in a self storage building.
