Proud to participate in this year’s supersport art action in Psigeia o Psiloritis in Metagiourgiou, Athens on saturday, november 16th
The building seeming so somber I felt I had to bring in something to make it’s desertedness even more obvious, and what is more chilling than deutsche Gemuetlichkeit (German Coziness).
And my friend Bernhard sent me the right quote from the Strugatzki brother’s novel, Picknick am Wegrand (Picknick by the side of the road), that has served Andrei Tarkovski as subject for his movie Stalker:
Wenn man die Gardine anschaut, überkommt einem ein tiefes Gefühl des Glücks, aber nur wenn man vor der Erscheinung der magischen Gardine noch nie den Raum betreten hat. Menschen, die den Raum zuvor schon einmal betreten haben erkennen eine weitere Raumdimension, und viele verzweifeln an dieser neuen Sinneswahrnehmung.
When you look at the curtain, you are overcome with a deep sense of happiness, but only if you have never entered the room before the magical curtain appears. People who have entered the room before recognise another spatial dimension, and many despair at this new sensory perception.
