Stropnik, Mladen
No. 785
"Momriding"
Artist: Stropnik, Mladen
Title: Momriding
Subtitle: ...Not Knowing a Word in English
Duration: 0:04:23
Year: 2002
Genre: Art video / Performance / Fiction

 
ABSTRACT
The artist has filmed his mother who reads to him over the phone the rejection letter from the British embassy to which the artist has applied for scholarship: “I applied for the scholarship. The British embassy i.e. their Department of Culture has rejected my application. I received the mail to my old address in Velenje. Mom read the letter to me over the phone. Mom doesn’t speak i.e. has the knowledge of foreign languages (perhaps a little German). I made the subtitles after the sound of the read letter.” (Source: Artservis' Collection, http://www.zbirka.artservis.org/eng/mladen-stropnik)

 
TEXT
Momriding
Umetnik je posnel mamo, ki mu po telefonu bere zavrnitveno pismo britanske ambasade, kamor je umetnik apliciral za štipendijo: “Iskal sem štipendijo. Britansko veleposlaništvo oz. njihov oddelek je zavrnilo prošnjo. Pošto sem dobil na star naslov v Velenje. Mama je pismo prebrala po telefonu. Mama ne govori oz. pozna tujih jezikov (mogoče malo nemško). Po zvoku sem sestavil podnapise prebranega.” (Vir: Artservisova Zbirka, http://www.zbirka.artservis.org/mladen-stropnik)

 
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