Ślady wierności (tracks of faith), PL-Gdañsk 2005

by Angelika Fojtuch and BBB Johannes Deimling

Duration 10 minutes

Description of action Angelika Fojtuch (AF) kneels in front of milkpot and an old coffeepot. She pours in the old coffeepot the milk, that directly runs out of a chink on the floor. With a rag she wipes the milk and wring out the rag over the coffeepot. So she tries to collect the milk in the pot, that all the times runs out of the chink on the floor.

BBB Johannes Deimling (BBB) is standing on the stairs and helds a red rose wrapped in newspapers in his hands. One after another he takes a page of that newspaper, held it like he reads it in front of him, burns it, so that it burns between his hands. After all pages are brunt, he take the rose and goes to AF, stops her action an gives her the rose in her hand.

BBB picks a petal of the rose and stucks it into the face of AF. AF hits BBB with full force on the right cheek. Once more BBB picks up a petal of the rose and stucks into the face of AF. Again AF hits BBB hardly in the face. This action will be repeat some more times. With the time the face of AF fills up with red rosepetals and the cheek of BBB reddens after a short time. Suddenly BBB breaks the stalk of the rose and AF let it fall in the same moment. BBB takes AF on his back and carry her out of the room.

Photos: unknown and SAMISDAT