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Europe - 4:00 - 2004
A woman, or one who appearing to be so, dressed in a traditional
costume is holding up a mirror in which she sees the stars of the
EU flag. She starts to sing a song in which she declares her unwillingness
to marry someone (read: join the EU), and hoping for a better future
in solitude, singing: “If I can rule by myself”. But
inside her mirror there is another woman, dressed in the same costume,
who eagerly puts the image of an old officer/royality up for auction,
signing the contract and selling out the white linen I her brides
chest. But suddenly she finds that there is dirt/oil in the bottom
of her chest, and the stars of the EU is faded in soon followed
by reportage images of excessive consummation, environmental catastrophe
and third world starvation..
Amerika - 3:16 - 2002
Norwegian artist Ane Lan, dressed as a woman in Middle
Eastern attire, reclines in an Orientalist setting while singing,
\"Amerika, Amerika, where are you now?”
Elegi -3:33 - 2003
The artist Ane Lan is resiting/singin the poem “elegy”
by William Blake after peeping at a womans breasts through brocade
curtains. In the end he insists on showing the image of C.G. Jung
for the camera.
Ane Lan was born in Oslo, Norway in 1972. He
graduated from the National College of Art and design in Oslo in
2002 and is working in the field of experimental film/video, performance
and music. He has exhibited amongst other places, at The Whitney
Museum of American Art in NYC, USA and Reiner Roterfelt Gallery,
Munich, Germany. Lan is also participating in the 2005 Venice Biennial
with Performance.
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