Fragments

[to be engulfed] - [absence] - [adorable] - [affirmation] - [alteration] - [anxiety] - [annulment] - [askesis] - [atopos] - (no classification)] - [waiting] - [to hide] - [pigeonholded] - [catastrophy] - [circumscribe] - [heart] - [fulfillment] - [compassion] - [to understand] - [behavior] - [connivance] - [contacts] - [contingencies] - [body] - [declaration] - [dedication] - [demons] - [dependency (depended from)] - [expenditure] - [disreality] - [drama] - [flayed] - [to write] - [errantry] - [embrace] - [exile] - [irksome] - [fade-out] - [faults] - [festivity] - [mad] - [embarrassment] - [Gradiva] - [habiliment] - [identification] - [image] - [unknowable] - [induction] - [informer] - [unbearable] - [outcomes] - [jealousy] - [I-love-you] - [languor] - [letter] - [loquela] - [magic] - [monstrous] - [silence] - [clouds] - [night] - [objects] - [obscene] - [crying] - [gossip] - [why] - [ravishment] - [regretted] - [encounter] - [reverberation] - [waking] - [scene] - [alone] - [signs] - [remembrance] - [suicide] - [thus] - [tenderness] - [union] - [truth] - [will-to-possess]


It is not one lover - a model lover, a supra-individual one - like the male voice used by Roland Barthes in his book A Lover´s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments d´un Discours Amoureux, 1977) who uses modular components from the fields of literature, philosophy, and intellectual history; it is twelve artists - lovers - who speak in Annja Krautgasser´s video Fragments. They do not talk about love itself, they articulate the figures of love in the moment of the body´s gesture caught in action and not in contemplated response; it is the contemporary structures of the notion of "dating" that should reinvigorate a discourse - itself pursued by thousands of subjects - already of an extreme solitude from the outset.

(Franz Thalmair)