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Also in this combined programme

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  Wandering Words

  The text that word by word fills the right side of the image is derived from chapter 10 ‘Wandering Rocks’ of James Joyce’s Ulysse

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  Pa tak

  ‘Tape my head and mike my brain.’ A tribute to three writers and their relationship with sound recording devices: Rilke and the phonogr

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  Me+

  A single white cross on a blank black surface. The slow movements of this cross seem to delineate some figure. But it is the off-screen voice that

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  The Witch

  In The Witch a little boy abandons an apartment and, as soon as he has gone, the plants begin to communicate with each other by energetically shaki

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  Muette

  A fragment from Autodafé by Elias Canetti is read out without sound, only a mouth, filmed in close-up, appears on-screen. The sequence is repeated

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  Wandering Love

  A woman sits on rocks by the waterside; she is seen from the back, smoking a cigarette. Like a holiday picture. Below, words appear on-screen taken

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  The Lover’s Bed

  Video piece based on the novel by Marguerite Duras L’amant de la Chine de nord. The artist collected quotes from the book and developed a new

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  Legal Errorist

  In the limelight of an empty stage stands a woman, transfixed, offering herself in refusal like a comic-book character. ‘No, I will not sing

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  Shouting Match

  The tone of the work is reminiscent of early video art: raw expression. The louder they shout, the more they are in the picture; the quieter, the m

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