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Anja Kreysing: Akkordeon / Elektronik

Ruth: Storytelling

SEARCHING FOR THE WHITE CUBE
Rottstr5 Kunsthallen / Bochum
As part of the performance based group exhibition SEARCHING THE WHITE CUBE Travelling Cinema collaborated together with the sound artist Anja Kreysing(midi-accordeon, electronics) using 16mm film-loops(found-footage and handprocessed) and life sound of the projectors by contact microphones. Inside Rottstr5 Kunsthallen a cube-room out of projection fabrics was created, offering some people to sit down inside the cube and tell their story to capture the moment and create a reflection of space within a moment. The projected images and and storyteller could be observed from any viewpoint inside the exhibition space being intervened by the the created life sound and noise.
Ruth, a woman who accidently came to the Rottstr 5 on the first day of the 2-performance-night was invited to tell a story, that regards an important moment in her life, a story that she did not had the chance to tell before and also a story which concerns her as a woman.
If you cant understand the story because of sound or lack of German, please scroll down for the transscription and translation.

Transkribierung von Ruths Geschichte / FOR THE TRANSLATION SCROLL DOWN
„Ich bin Ruth
Ich bin jetzt 81
Ich bin eingeladen eine Geschichte zu erzählen
Eine Geschichte aus meinem Leben
Ich habe geheiratet
Da war ich 18
Im Sommer nachdem ich das Abitur gemacht habe
Mein Vater musste mitkommen zum Standesamt
denn ich war ja noch nicht volljährig
Wir haben dann ein Zimmer gehabt bei meinen Eltern
Eine Wohnung war 1954 nur sehr sehr schlecht zu bekommen
Wir haben dann einen Sohn und dann noch einen Sohn
und dann hat mein Mann mit einer Schubkarre begonnen auszuschachten und ein Haus zu bauen
Als das Haus fast fertig war kam ein kleines Mädchen zur Welt
Sie hieß Veronika
Meine kleine Tochter
Sie war sehr missgebildet
Der Arzt sagt es ist eine Genmutation
Ein ganz kleines armes Geschöpf
Meine Schwiegereltern haben nie sich getraut das Kind an zu schauen
und in dem halbfertigen Haus hat uns auch niemand besucht
Die Freunde nicht
Die Nachbarn nicht
Die kleine Veronika, sie wurde 7 Monate alt und ist dann gestorben.
Ich habe dann noch zwei Söhne bekommen und war dann Ehefrau und Mutter.
Das ist meine Geschichte.“

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
c60collaboratorium.de/projekt/searching-for-the-white-cube-1.html
khm.de/nocache/en/news/events/event/article/2989-searching-for-the-white-cube/nCall/136/
Anja Kreysing

big thanks for the documentation to Lisa Bensel and Dato Chaganava