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Hauchtext: Liebesgedicht

Hauchtext: Liebesgedicht
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    • Breath Text: Love Poem
    • Hauchtext: Liebesgedicht
  • 1970/1973
  • video, b&w, sound
  • 2min, 24sec
In this video poem VALIE EXPORT speaks to the screen; the body-language action involving her loud, sensual, breathy voice is the main event, while the semantic content as "love-poem" is deliberately more of an afterthought. The focus is instead on the moment of not saying something out loud, of pre-linguistic expression. Only when the viewer follows step-by-step the letters breathed onto the glass pane as well as the performer's head movements does a sentence become decipherable, which says: "I love you." Jo.S.