From left to right:

Serchado poemo en dek Kanti, 2002
A Couturat, 2002

Bunta Garbo, 2002
All works: digital prints mounted on forex

This project excavates the little-known work of the Belgian writer Andreas Juste (1918–98). Written in the ‘international language’ Ido, Juste’s entire literary output (of approximately twenty-five self-published novels, collections of poems, pamphlets and translations) is largely unavailable, and if it were so, it could only be properly understood by probably, at most, 1000 readers worldwide.

La Pekuniala Teroio di Silvio Gessell, 2002

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.

Photo © Jamie Woodley / Arnolfini