Traveling Cinema: Searching for the white cube

As part of the performance-based group exhibition “SEARCHING FOR THE WHITE CUBE”, Travelling Cinema collaborated with sound artist Anja Kreysing (midi-accordion, electronics) using 16mm film loops (found footage and hand processed film) and contact microphones, capturing two projectors’ sound in real-time.
 A cubic room made of projection fabrics was built inside Rottstr5 Kunsthallen: people could sit in it and tell their story. The happening was projected on the cube’s walls. The projected images and the storytellers could be observed from any viewpoint inside the exhibition space, accompanied by the real-time evolution of the sound and the noise.

Ruth, a woman who happen to visit Rottstr 5 during the happening, was invited to tell a story about an important moment in her life. It was a story she never had told before, and which had to do with the implications of her gender.
 If you can’t understand the story because of the audio or the language, please scroll down for a transcription and translation.

TRANSLATION OF RUTHS STORY INTO ENGLISH

"I am Ruth
I am now 81years old
I was invited to tell a story
A story of my life
I married when I was 18
In the summer after I completing high school
My father had come with me to the registry office
because I was not yet of age
We then had a room with my parents
To get an apartment in 1954 was very difficult
We had a son and then another son
and then my husband started to work with a wheelbarrow and to excavate and build a house for us
When the house was nearly finished a little girl came into the world
Her name was Veronica
My little daughter
She was malformed
The doctor says it's a genetic mutation
A very poor little creature
My parents in law have never dared to look at the child
and in the half-finished house also no one ever visited us
The friends did not
The neighbors did not
Little Veronica , she became 7 months old and then died .
Afterwards I got two sons and was a wife and mother .
This is my story. "

Links:
SEARCHING THE WHITE CUBE
http://www.c60collaboratorium.de/projekt/searching-for-the-white-cube-1.html
http://www.khm.de/nocache/en/news/events/event/article/2989-searching-for-the-white-cube/nCall/136/

Anja Kreysing
http://www.anjakreysing.tk

Documentation by Lisa Bensel and Dato Chaganava