Entslastlungen AKA Pipilolottis Fehler (1988)
By Pipilotti Rist
A nursery rhyme or a poem? displayed over a royal blue background the words "I see. You see. I see you seeing. You see me seeing. I want to show what I see. You want to show what you see. Nirvana in the rose garden". Then the sound starts, a powerful woman's voice repeats the words after they are written on the screen, singing them in German. The enunciation of each phase is marked by a drum roll. Images also appear very abruptly -- the face of Pipilotti, dirty, hatched with white lines and saturation blotches. Then the same nursery rhyme appears again displayed on a blue background, this time in English. And the same voice repeats the line in German in almost exactly the same way as before. We gradually distinguish the images of a concert (the titles tell us that this group is the Reines Prochaines, the musical performance group that Pipilotti established, and which she had belonged to for many years. The tone changes and a new text appears in English "Are you good, are you bad. Are you big, are you small" and a ritonello on the electric organ plays at the same time. The image makes a central superimposed rectangle appear, in which we see Pipilotti outside in the middle of gard…
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