Fox, Vienna, 19.03. – 08.04.2017

my volcano erupts

Anna Hofbauer

only not for you 

Clemens Roesch, 2017

(English by Douglas Deitemyer)

Nearly everything I know at this moment about “mein Vulkan bricht nur für dich nicht aus Anna Hofbauer,” everything I have seen and heard, came to me from two black cases: one is hand-sized and cannot be opened, the other is the size of a magazine and can be unfolded. On each of them, one of the surfaces is covered by a piece of glass that, through some tricks I do not understand, is illuminated from within, thus conveying to me ideas and impressions. I run the tip of my right index finger across the glass of the smaller case without being able to feel much. The glass is completely smooth – perhaps a bit of dust, grease, a small irritation caused by some dried fluid that my fingernail scratches away.

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Fox, Vienna, 19.03. – 08.04.2017

my volcano erupts

Anna Hofbauer

only not for you 

Clemens Roesch, 2017

(English by Douglas Deitemyer)

Nearly everything I know at this moment about “mein Vulkan bricht nur für dich nicht aus Anna Hofbauer,” everything I have seen and heard, came to me from two black cases: one is hand-sized and cannot be opened, the other is the size of a magazine and can be unfolded. On each of them, one of the surfaces is covered by a piece of glass that, through some tricks I do not understand, is illuminated from within, thus conveying to me ideas and impressions. I run the tip of my right index finger across the glass of the smaller case without being able to feel much. The glass is completely smooth – perhaps a bit of dust, grease, a small irritation caused by some dried fluid that my fingernail scratches away.

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slide show performance, 25 E6 color slides, 12 min, 2018

Bora Ćosić wrote ‘The Tutors’ from 1972 to 1977 in Belgrade. Ćosić, as many other artists at that time, was silenced by the Yugoslavian regime. His books had disappeared from the bookstores, his plays were taken off the schedule and he was critizised in newspapers for his destructive and hostile writing style.

In this rejected situation, in a state of joyful loneliness, he devoted himself to the “proletariat” of language, the counter-language of ordinances, ways of speaking, letters, all the prefabricated phrases, these tutored languages and inserted them into the events of his family chronicle, which begins in 1828 and ends with him as an author in 1977.

The slide show Anna Hofbauer reads Bora Ćosić ‘The Tutors” is composed of slides taken during various trips to countries of former Yugoslavia and the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The text is an assemblage of short excerpts from the book ‘The Tutors’ by Bora Ćosić.

Three short text passages from three different chapters of “The Tutors” are vocally interpreted according to the different writing styles and range from a hard cut officials’ intonation to a staccato of nonsense rhymes and end in an exhausted matter-of-fact descriptive tone.

The slide projection is arranged in alphabetical order, which creates a random order of places and countries in a strict system. A system undermined – again – by the language, as German and Serbo-Croatian namings are chosen by chance.

Albania (landscape, 2002)

Bosnia Herzegovina (river, 2017)

Crna Gora (man at platform, 2013)

Dunajuvaros (swimming pool, 2004)

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slide show performance, 25 E6 color slides, 12 min, 2018

Bora Ćosić wrote ‘The Tutors’ from 1972 to 1977 in Belgrade. Ćosić, as many other artists at that time, was silenced by the Yugoslavian regime. His books had disappeared from the bookstores, his plays were taken off the schedule and he was critizised in newspapers for his destructive and hostile writing style.

In this rejected situation, in a state of joyful loneliness, he devoted himself to the “proletariat” of language, the counter-language of ordinances, ways of speaking, letters, all the prefabricated phrases, these tutored languages and inserted them into the events of his family chronicle, which begins in 1828 and ends with him as an author in 1977.

The slide show Anna Hofbauer reads Bora Ćosić ‘The Tutors” is composed of slides taken during various trips to countries of former Yugoslavia and the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The text is an assemblage of short excerpts from the book ‘The Tutors’ by Bora Ćosić.

Three short text passages from three different chapters of “The Tutors” are vocally interpreted according to the different writing styles and range from a hard cut officials’ intonation to a staccato of nonsense rhymes and end in an exhausted matter-of-fact descriptive tone.

The slide projection is arranged in alphabetical order, which creates a random order of places and countries in a strict system. A system undermined – again – by the language, as German and Serbo-Croatian namings are chosen by chance.

Albania (landscape, 2002)

Bosnia Herzegovina (river, 2017)

Crna Gora (man at platform, 2013)

Dunajuvaros (swimming pool, 2004)

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