Preface

As my work in progress is partly a kind of research, it sometimes takes years to find the right focus for a certain moment. Basic input for that part -- "seven leafes" -- was the night, I've been talking with "Kera", once tank-commander of the formerly Yugoslav People's Army, who did a mission in Vukovar. [link]

The things he told me about these days let me think on experiences and consequences of my own family and the Austrian people after World War II. (What about that evening, when I was just a teenager and my grandma handed me two books: "Mein Kampf" by Adolph Hitler and "Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts" by Alfred Rosenberg?)

In 2006 I asked the German Artist Johannes J. Musolf to manufacture those seven leafes for me as symbols for the seven slavic nations of Yugoslavia. I wanted to use it for a process named "burnings space" [link]

This happened, when my long term project "the long distance howl" slowly turned into "next code". The leafes first were shown at "forum stadtpark " in Graz, unwrapped by fotographer Gerhard Gross [link]

After that the leafes went to viennna. I did there a reading, sharing a set with "SPLITTERWERK", as part of "Sprechen ueber Architektur" ("talking about architecture") at "BENE Forum".  We called it "next code: passion" [link]

Another part of this session was dedicated to Andrej Monastyrskij and an action he did 1978 at the Kijewgorskoje Fields: [link]

This was the day, when Frank Ablinger ("monochrom") set a "moment" with the seven leafes as a part of a serial of "short run exhibitions" [link] After steps like that I decided 2008, to put a part of the seven leafes into the ground of western Serbia, in the area of Gornji Milanovac, which is quite near to the area of Srebrenica (Bosnia).

This was part of a trip, documented with a set I named "idem na divan" [link] (The photographer Gerhard Gross, I mentioned above, was memeber of this crew, so he got involved again. He buried one of the leafes there.)

The Installation "seven leafes II" as part of "next code: exit" is related to another installation, I realized in Weiz, about 15 kilometers north of Gleisdorf. It is named "Glaeserne Saetze" ("sentences made of glass") and is dedicated to the victims of Jasenovac: [link]

martin krusche

P.s.:
The image at the corepage shows Nikola Dzafo (on right side) from the serbian group "Led ART Klinika" (beside Nikola Macura). I appreciate that he was here in these days ... especially for what he did in time of Milosevic and of course for what he still stands.

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