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Anita Dube: The luggage that contained all my materials was lost by Air France. So I had about five days to rethink the whole piece. The only thing I had with me was the text, the rest is completely improvised. I picked things on the side where I was working, just what I found around - cannon balls and some paint, dissolved with old petrol from a car. The paint of course wasn't the right color I needed, but there was nothing I could do. Petrol was the only solvent. I had to use that. Then I had to scrub the walls and sandpaper them and find some other things to put in my niches. For example a moth came into my space and a friend who was helping me found it and gave it to me as a gift. That also went into the installation.
The good thing was that the text I had is poetic. It's the only structure that allows you to improvise and make a synchronization between text and other elements. And I'm glad that it was poetic. Otherwise, if I had another structure, I couldn't do anything. Then I would have to make a performance to save myself.
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Interview, photos: Gerhard Haupt & Pat Binder, Universes in Universe |
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