Once upon a time there was and there is…
Video 7'58'' - German with English subtitles
May 2005

Footage from the institutionalized kitchen of a retirement home (Haus Schönbrunn) in Vienna is combined with memories of its inhabitants (from baking bread, a cabbage’s vat to the pig’s dance).

The kitchen of memories meets the kitchen of the presence.

Texts and images do not identify each other; instead they distinguish each other, floating alongside one another and forming moving islands, nodes in a network of multiple relationships, which the viewer must create him/herself.

Once upon a time there was and there is... was on display at the exhibition „Mit den Augen essen“ in St. Pölten/Austria (September 2005) and simultaneously at the Haus Schönbrunn.