summary
- Author : Tanja Ostojic
- Duration : 7'
- Original Title : Crossing Over
- English Title : Crossing Over
- Year : 2001
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Bio : Born 1972 in U?ice, Serbia, the former Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Description : The artist started the project Looking for a Husband with E.U. Passport in August 2000. After publishing an ad with this title, she exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. Following correspondence over six months with a German man Klemens Golf, their first meeting was arranged as a public performance in the field in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in 2001. The video documents this meeting with subtitles visualising the search for the other, getting closer to the other, as well as thoughts by strangers who were also about to encounter an intimate relationship.
Description : The artist started the project Looking for a Husband with E.U. Passport in August 2000. After publishing an ad with this title, she exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. Following correspondence over six months with a German man Klemens Golf, their first meeting was arranged as a public performance in the field in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in 2001. The video documents this meeting with subtitles visualising the search for the other, getting closer to the other, as well as thoughts by strangers who were also about to encounter an intimate relationship.