Part I: Dystopia = Revolte!

Dystopia
Tongued with fire -
Waves of fire that come from the sea -
Saturn Devouring His Son,
(Also bearing the epithet "fate"),
Consumes him in an act of cannibalism.
He holds in his arms the child who has died:
The first experience of pain.
We haven't had any reason to be happy for a long time.
The angels exult and weep,
Sometimes you know which tears were meant for crying.

Revolte!
No matter how it turns out,
Even if it's only a glass of water,
I remember where a toad may live,
Fledglings and worms,
And I remember 333 quails flying over 333 silver roofs;
We would surprise each other with alphabets made of twigs
From the humanoid sketchbook of nature.
The dreaming memory of land,
Transient world of his ancestors, country of her longings;
Refugees welcome; polizei? Nein, danke!

Dystopia
There's no tranquil place on earth for our love -
The decaying local world (destined for oblivion)
Bridge of sighs, ruins of the church,
In spasm, in excruciating pain, crawling on the ground, vomiting
Right to execution, will of the executioner
Privilege of sword -
Amputation of fingers or arm, drawing of tongue, branding of eyes -
Merely impertinent places trying to make themselves important,
Prostheses of the bourgeois.
What are you angry with the most?

Revolte!
"Sex-Orgien Radikaler Studenten!"
Microseconds of ecstasy -
Tender feelings for a lady of questionable reputation:
Venus Humanitas -
The material of our art is our own bodies.
Your Serene Highness!
I hide my face in you, you hide yours in me, daydream-guerillas;
Retreat to a fairytale underwater world,
The intoxicated land with only two house you can find in the dark,
Against a slow devouring inside and being swallowed up by the outside.

Dystopia
A hereditary predisposition to hysteria,
An addiction to both morphine and cocaine;
I couldn't bear the sight of a dying horse,
The world's schizoid soul, it's crazy, gaping split.
Fighting our brothers for our share of the worldly goods:
The icy city is burning away
A step towards Gomorrah,
Wounds with which an entire generation could identify;
Too many tears have corroded the mechanism.
The most tiresome affair in the world!

Revolte!
We are pacifists!
You must have chaos in you!
In this sign I shall conquer,
We stepped to the sill ourselves.
Be calm, stay calm,
Nobody will ever see us again,
Heads tucked in, surrendering to the night,
Bound for the deepest night of all.
Even ghosts disappear toward morning,
And "today" is too much for me, too gripping, too boundless.

Dystopia = Revolte!

Part II: Love or Nuclear

The first separation was already so painful -
Becoming and being gendered.
Genital Panic -
Eerie childhood -
Angry young girl, don't care a fuck about everything -
"Nil omne" (all is trivial).

Except when we love.
The lovers write to each other often;
Degenerate artists describing a utopian place,
Girls with grim expressions, vampire fangs,
Die kinder der resistance
Waiting for a kiss to be turned back into a frog.

Begging tree-woman,
Miss Dead Moon,
Tomorrow you'll be a housewife:
The drowning and the drowned,
The left and right pain,
Feet tied up and fingers stuck in the earth.

ボヤージュオブザムーン [boyaaju obu za muun]:
"I just wanna be a cosmic dancer!"
"I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy!"
Defy the adult world,
Living as a man and a woman,
Back to the universe.

Cento Sources

• Graffiti from a basketball court on Nordbahnstrasse
• "Little Gidding" by T.S. Eliot
• Titles of various VALIE EXPORT pieces
• Saturn Devouring His Son, Francisco Goya
• Signage from the Beethoven Pasqualatihaus
• Signage from the Freud Museum
• Erlkonig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
• Signage from the Albertina & Albertina Modern
• Disturbing the Peace by Vaclav Havel
• An interview with Kurt Vonnegut
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• A Czech tongue twister
• "Nostalgia" by Billy Collins
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
• Josef Sedlak writing about Bela Petrik
• Signage from the Ingeborg Bachmann exhibit at the Literaturmuseum
• A sticker on a telephone pole
• The Castle by Franz Kafka
• Captions of Bela Petrik's photos at the Central European House of Photography
• "Operation Unaffected, Fictional Interview with R" by Jakub Zelezny
• Signage from Old Town Hall Museum in Bratislava
• "Point of View" exhibit catalog
• A newspaper headline display at Literaturmuseum
• Audio clip about VALIE EXPORT at the Belvedere
• A letter from Beethoven
• Lines and titles from the artwork of Yoshitomo Nara
• Audio clip about The Last Human (Ecce Homo) by Anton Hanak at the Belvedere
• Too Many Tears Have Corroded the Mechanism, Georg Baselitz
• "Take This Cup From Me" by Ruth Padel
• "Shirt" by Robert Pinksy
• "Dart" by Alice Oswald
• Gender as Soft Assembly by Adrienne Harris
• Sign under Allegory of Vanitas by Pereda at the Kunsthistorisches
• "Sketches" by Max Frisch
• A poster in a park
• My classmate Karina, in conversation
• Sign under The Temptation of St. Anthony by Huys at the Kunsthistorisches
• Sign under Landscape with Philemon and Baucis by Rubens at the Kunsthistorisches
• Signage from the Georg Baselitz exhibition at the Albertina
• Signage from the Hause der Musik
• And probably some other things that I forgot...