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True Stories (Tafelspitz)

True Stories (Tafelspitz)
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    • True Stories (Tafelspitz)
  • 2000
  • video, color, sound
  • 5min, 50sec
In "Tafelspitz," the artist—elegantly dressed and styled—visits her favorite downtown café and orders the eponymous traditional Viennese boiled beef dish. But the portion of meat she is served turns out to be so inelegantly oversized that she has great difficulty concealing the effort required to “polish it off.” As the diners seated nearby observe her with stolen glances, she slices up the piece of meat, which hangs far over the edges of her plate, and stuffs a good bit of it into her handbag while some fairly large pieces fall on the floor in the process and are gobbled up by another diner’s dog. S.E.