Cariana Carianne (USA/Chicago)

crox 119 : Borders. What prevents you today? april 2004. Publicatie van de CD-rom BORDERS (CarianaCarianne 2004, Croxhapox); A discourse on borders. Solo-project. Openingsuren maandag tot zondag, telkens 9u tot 18u, en dit van 4 tot 27 april 2004. From 'A discourse on borders':
Carianne (Ce): It seems so fitting to talk about the inception of borders before our installed conversation begins on the same subject. Cariana (Ca): After all, borders are continuous.
Ce: Can there be an after? Since borders are continua that sit on plateaus never dissipating.
Ca: So the conversation begins. It is not about Geeps and J. Beuys, but it is about the two existing, or finding that the two exist, as all borders look on and peer in.
Ce: The television is just one more thing that needs to be turned off. In our heads it rings, just as the cellular phone sits at our ribs.
Ca: So, what would Beuys do?
Ce: He would have chalkboards for sure. This would be a perfect opportunity, if it were his show. Our installation needs chalkboards as well.
Ca: But we have the walls. Can we transport the walls?
Ce: That would be up to you and your domain. That would be our show. We have objects and maps. We could nail the walls each day. We could allow the borders to come to us, interrupting our individual attentions and intentions. We have no projectors with exceptional cords. Only a light bulb and our vocal cords. Arms filled with materials is troubling me. I wish them to be rich and textured and inviting and evoking. Plain, dull brown paper is so much more diffidult to transform. It would be exciting to see what they have in Belgium. Lights might be slightly different. Cords might be slightly longer or they may come in troubling short sizes.
Ca: What are maps anyway?
Ce: They are simply anything that signs or signifies. They certainly do not have to come in the shape of a square. If they come in the scape of a square, then I suggest you look at it again and ask yourself what you really see.

Tweede soloproject juni-juli 2006, ‚Dwelling Field‘, synchroon met projecten van Debra Tolchinsky, Dianna Frid, Sarah Westphal en Jamez Dabramski Dean. Publicatie van crox-card 35 (Dwelling Field) en crox-boek NR 3: Borders (ISBN 90-76593-O4-3).
Crox-card 33 toont een still uit de videofilm ‚Dwelling Field‘ (2005); een litanie van citaten.

Extract from ‚Borders‘: ‚Neither remembers the push nor the fall, except that the bridge receded into the horizon and, as we passed through the water crust, the sun, sounds, and the distant figures faded. More than anything else we remember that underneath the water nothing was sharp.
Very quickly we found ourselves sitting on top of a large rock discussing death. Although we were young, we knew that we were filling with water and that we were dying. By all accounts we recall this new environment as quite pleasurable and as a consequence one of us wished to stay and die, while the other hoped to explore the land again.
I was the one that wanted to stay. She asked me if her face looked pale. I told her it did not – although it did. She did not believe me and so she said nothing else. Without an answer I looked around some more. I was so amazed that everything was so quiet and soft – death did not seem so awful or even finite for that matter. Gradually my eyes looked back at her. I had wanted to talk some more. But she began to rise. I panicked. Instantly I was frightened by my surroundings – I had never been without her. I was suffocating. I could not be without her. It was just one second – maybe two – that I grasped her ankle and rose to the surface to face the woman on the bridge.
The last thing we remember is that the sun had faded, the air was cold and our lungs were filled with the Allegany River.‘ (p. 38-40)/