Nje gavarju pa njemezki / Ich spreche kein Deutsch (prinzensprache)
Nje gavarju pa njemezki/ I don't speak german (prinzenlanguage)

The installation consists of a wall with inscriptions, a TV set with some headphones and some seats.
The video shows the russian artist Anatoly Vyatkin in 2 situations, reading some texts and walking dressed as a russian prince through a small creek. Anatoly Vyatkin does not speak german at all. Nevertheless he is reading a text in german, fragments of statements of the russian filmmaker Tarkovskji. It is possible to imitate nearly all sounds of the german language by using cyrillic letters. Thus written in cyrillic letters the german words become readable and pronounceable for Anatoly. Since he is unaware of the content of the words resp. the texts he has no idea when, where and what there is to be pronounced or streched etc. The phonetics turn strange, some combinations of letters create challenging vocal exercises and it becomes difficult to understand not only the single words but also the meaning they carry.
The verbal aspects of the video are combined with movie - like sequences that speak a visual language. Anatoly walks through the water of a small creek pulling along a row of 5 buoyes. He comes out of a landscape and disappears in a tunnel that leads the creek underneath an urban space. Then the buoyes appear again out of the tunnel and float back to the landscape. Verbal and visual aspects of communication meet. But they have no illustrative character one to the other.
The read texts will be written in both, the cyrillc and the latin letters on the wall. The audience has the opportunity to follow the words also visually.

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