Anna Jermolaewa |
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Ass Peeping “Der streifenden Blick, Hort des Analen" Peep Shows sind kostspielige Vergnügen für Voyeure, Einsame, Touristen und Polterabende. Verborgen hinter der Sichtblende eines Guckkastens und getarnt im Schutz der Nacht, wagen die Peeping Toms1 ihre gierigen, verstohlenen Blicke auf den zum Greifen nahen, doch sicher entzogenen Körper. Anna Jermolaewa stellt diese unabänderliche Einrichtung auf den Kopf. 1 Peeping Tom bedeutet im Sprachgebrauch soviel wie Spanner oder Voyeur, [Judith Reichart, Bregenz, 2003] |
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Ass Peeping “The fleeting glance, refuge of the anal” Peep shows are a costly entertainment for voyeurs, the lonely, tourists and stag nights. Hidden behind the screen of a peep box and covered under the protection of the night, the peeping Toms risk their greedy, furtive gazes onto the body which is within reach, yet safely withdrawn. Anna Jermolaewa turns this immutable institution on its head. [Judith Reichart, Bregenz, 2003] |
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“There is no rest for the weary; we’re lost, we drop blindly hour by hour, we who suffer, tossed like water from cheek to cheek, for long years thrown into uncertainty”: such might assuredly be the enchanting Schicksalsliedof Anna Jermolaewa’s take on the urban scene in her last book Ass peeping from onestar press. The contemporary reader here finds him/herself confronted with a multitude of rearends that make faces, in the literal sense of Catherine M.(for whom the anatomical center is the ontological center with which communication is immediate and unmediated). This invitation to investigate deeply also pushes us to move forward, to openly follow, without any hope of ever being able to see the other side of the dream decor. So let us dream, but let us also move on. He who follows is surely the foundation of he who leads. Philippe Buschinger (Paris) |