INSTALLATIONS

The Blue Room
Installation

This room and the video were created for the exhibition Cross Borders 2007
in Masc Foundation/ Vienna/
Link with panorama photos:
http://www.masc.at/htm/h_archiv/panorama/2007-04-27%20masc/index.html

„The Film is an open window „. It gives us a chance to have a look in different worlds,

to enjoy other lifes, stories and we are as a voyers stared at the nabers window.
This is the reason why I painted a window on the wall, put this slogan inside
and there was the video projection.

On the blue walls were painted shadows from film stars.  The Mirror is a important
character in the video. The dolls and fruits are the seducing part.

Kitsch, Flirting, Love & A Bit More
Video
50 min/ colour/ english & german
2007

A parody and truth

This video is a crazy mix of interviews with people from different countries,
body language, parties, reality, poetry, seaking, lonleyness and hope. One sees
strange, funny, sensitive, normal, dancing and drunk people talkinkg about flirting,
kissing, love, feelings. What is the FLIRT about? Is it always with an aim?

A main part of the project is a book called: 1001 New Flirt Expressions

The video characters:

The Rain, The Fucker, The Horse, The Risk, The Friend, The Lost Love,
The Found Love, The Passion, The Hope, The Illusion, The Hopeless,
The Nervous One, The Guitar, The Wine, He, She, We and the special guest is The Mirror

Poetry part: Inspired by my father- the poet and writer Volen Nikolaev and
two of his works The Paper Tiger and The Nostalgia Store

A part of the text:

„-I love the rain, it is as the weather is playing piano, now it is here,
but after a while far away...
The Rain
It is time to go, it is time to stop. I have other plans, but I will leave you my
most  beautiful glisten...
The Mirror:
Its me again. You are not afraid of your self, or are you? May be we all have it in our
selvs- a different selve. May be some of us are afraid of it, as if it is something in a
shop window. Thats why they are protecting them selves with agression, they don’t
want to understand the others and they will act this way till they have broke this other part.
The Horse:
Who are you? Why are you staring at me?
The Risk:
I am The Risk
The horse:
You are the one who make people love me!
I am just a horse in the beginning of the new century, the new era. And what about you?
The Risk
I think you are not afraid. I think we are going in the same direction. We live.
We follow one or a few versions. Destany gives us exams and like this chooses
which one is for us. Absolutly modern exams with IQ tests and other new technologys
and brain checks. Things often happen by accident, well at least the others belive so.
The others who close them selfs of, who are contend, what is acceptable to society.
This is what is called: decency. They don’t want to see the chance and to go in to
onother path in the labyrinth. To meet other people, to live in a different way.
To love in a differen way. To enjoy, work in a different way. They  turn their cold
face the other way, they clime the stars to the iron door and than close
it infront of the stranger. They swear the person who deals a wronge phone number.
They are afraid, oh how afraid of the feeling evan of a small risk.
But he risk dose not care, it makes the presant fuller, it awords us with the past,
with the memories. It gives us the right to have strange dreams...evan after time gone by.
The Horse
Is there someone waiting of me?
The Risk
Is there someone waiting of us?