La Pekuniala Teroio di Silvio Gessell, 2002 (left)

Video

Duration 09:00 min

The video shows documents from the life of Silvio Gesell, born 1862. He was first a commercial clerk in Spain, then an entrepreneur in Argentina, lived in Switzerland and moved to the life reform community “Eden” near Berlin in 1919. He is the author of numerous books on currency issues and was even nominated for Minister of Finance in Bavaria. Braun’s approach to Gesell emphasizes, also through the voice-over commentary spoken in the artificial language Ido, the gaps in interpretation and the misunderstandings that may be implicit to a reconstruction of this kind.

R.T/S.R/V.S, 2003/2012 (floor)

Tree discs, pond, water

The pond takes as its point of departure the opening sequence of Satyajit Rays' not implemented script The Alien, in which an alien's spaceship lands on a lotus blossom-pond and sinks to the ground. Beyond its actual significance as a possible filmset, the pond is to be seen as an accessible projection screen for the versatile associations Braun sets up between script, author and other protagonists and objects that are part of this trilogy.

All three wall hangings:

Photo © Jamie Woodley / Arnolfini