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"...And there is a video on falling, on falling down the stairs, also on falling whose ultimate goal is to reveal fashion accessories, like in some stocks advertisement, but also on revealing what is hidden, what is under the skirt. That story about desire, about impossibility to decide because everything has already been decided upon, about falling-down-as-redemption, is actually quite simple, like a pop song - or as sophisticated as Laurie Anderson’s Bright Red. Did she fall or was she pushed?

The story nonchalantly shifts between advertisement, video clip, melodrama etc., equally persuasive in each instance. The neon sentence expresses desire. A desire acting as if knowing what it really wants, desire expressed in performative, establishing the subject constituted in the ambivalent non-space of cultural collisions, in which the demand to resignify or repeat the very terms which constitute the “we” cannot be summarily refused, but neither can they be followed in strict obedience, as expressed by Judith Butler..." *