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A short experimental play

Carmengheorghe.com is a curated project, based on the idea of cultural import/export from Romania. Their current offering is a unique selection of Romanian masks crossbreed with spiritual semantics. Masketas intervenes into this cosmos with an instant play: following the masks into their current homes in Berlin, the travelogue reveals a twisted contemporary fusion between performance and folklore preciosa.   

INTERIOR LIVING ROOM

11:30: Mia and Gica are both on their laptops. Coffee glasses, light brown foam lining, the light falls softly  through the shades.

MIA:  So what would the abbreviation be? EW? Extra works?

GICA:  You think we should add a category?

MIA:  Yeah for all the loose works that  don’t quite fit, that front page, the colophon.

GICA:  The Roman lettering, that lamp that  was not a part of the series, let  me email them and see if they can  add a category for us.

MIA:  Great. 

Mia gets up to refill the tea.

MIA:  Did it ever work though? The only  couples I know that work, work like  companies.

GICA:  I mean they were together for  eighteen years right, for eighteen  years, and then bang she walks out,  he doesn’t even find her, she just  leaves one day to the next.

MIA:  Fă Doamne fereastra ușă!!  Did you know that cock in Romanian  is female!

GICA: What! 

MIA: Pula is a girl!

(places a glass with fresh tea  on the coaster next to Gica  and sits back down) (CONTINUED) 

I.

MIA: Try that tea. 

GICA:  Thank you! And not even like fucked up, you know, the money was easy,  that nice house, known for throwing  these nice orgies here and then and  bang. 

MIA: That draw to the line, that draw of  equilibrium confirming itself, I  mean the exemption confirms the  rule, but the deeper she goes (hand  movement) the more she’s gonna  launch out. I mean I see that  straight line right in front of  me, moving out from underneath me, straight white into the distance  and wham it moves up from the  ground and into my face, what are  you gonna do, you not gonna be able  to handle it. Yesterday he said to me, having is  better than wanting, haha I was laughing, my dad used to say mehr  haben und weniger sein. I wonder how to construct this new  relationship, how do they work, extra works!

GICA: When we went to the world cup ...

MIA: What? 

GICA:  ...when we traveled to Brazil and  we had tickets to all the games and...

MIA: (smiling) Alright soccer go.

GICA: We’re in Rio right and you know how  the tickets go through this lottery  and we’re there and it’s the  quarter finals and Germany wins  against France and we of course, I  mean! We get into this trance and  (MORE)(CONTINUED) 

2.

GICA: the exhilaration that goes through  my body and we’re floating through  space and then bang! Against Brazil  seven one, SEVEN ONE, they win  SEVEN ONE! one and one and another one! the shock, in BRAZIL! In their  own country! and we’re there on  purpose and with every win, with  every goal I feel, it creeps up on  me, I just feel emptier and emptier  and we move through the tournament  and waaam they win and I was at the  end of it, I was taken apart, I  have never NEVER in my life felt  such a deep sense of emptiness,  having arrived that left me with  nothing.

MIA:  She gets up, blows it up and bang bang bang because what is she gonna  do. Have they written back to us? Let’s go to Pula!

GICA:  Where is that?

MIA (smiling): Croatia! Extra works!

GICA (smiling): And the redemption song, I’ll make  us another coffee.

MIA: Thank you.

You can purchase the romanian mountain creatures here.

Photo: Giorgia Palmisano
Text: Yael Salomonowitz 

Thank you Andrea Faraguna & Filippo Weck, Ana Ofak & Steffen Berkhahn, Bianca Girbinger & Kristian Rädle and Lena Zimmermann for letting us into your homes.

A short experimental play

Carmengheorghe.com is a curated project, based on the idea of cultural import/export from Romania. Their current offering is a unique selection of Romanian masks crossbreed with spiritual semantics. Masketas intervenes into this cosmos with an instant play: following the masks into their current homes in Berlin, the travelogue reveals a twisted contemporary fusion between performance and folklore preciosa.   

INTERIOR LIVING ROOM

11:30: Mia and Gica are both on their laptops. Coffee glasses, light brown foam lining, the light falls softly  through the shades.

MIA:  So what would the abbreviation be? EW? Extra works?

GICA:  You think we should add a category?

MIA:  Yeah for all the loose works that  don’t quite fit, that front page, the colophon.

GICA:  The Roman lettering, that lamp that  was not a part of the series, let  me email them and see if they can  add a category for us.

MIA:  Great. 

Mia gets up to refill the tea.

MIA:  Did it ever work though? The only  couples I know that work, work like  companies.

GICA:  I mean they were together for  eighteen years right, for eighteen  years, and then bang she walks out,  he doesn’t even find her, she just  leaves one day to the next.

MIA:  Fă Doamne fereastra ușă!!  Did you know that cock in Romanian  is female!

GICA: What! 

MIA: Pula is a girl!

(places a glass with fresh tea  on the coaster next to Gica  and sits back down) (CONTINUED) 

I.

MIA: Try that tea. 

GICA:  Thank you! And not even like fucked up, you know, the money was easy,  that nice house, known for throwing  these nice orgies here and then and  bang. 

MIA: That draw to the line, that draw of  equilibrium confirming itself, I  mean the exemption confirms the  rule, but the deeper she goes (hand  movement) the more she’s gonna  launch out. I mean I see that  straight line right in front of  me, moving out from underneath me, straight white into the distance  and wham it moves up from the  ground and into my face, what are  you gonna do, you not gonna be able  to handle it. Yesterday he said to me, having is  better than wanting, haha I was laughing, my dad used to say mehr  haben und weniger sein. I wonder how to construct this new  relationship, how do they work, extra works!

GICA: When we went to the world cup ...

MIA: What? 

GICA:  ...when we traveled to Brazil and  we had tickets to all the games and...

MIA: (smiling) Alright soccer go.

GICA: We’re in Rio right and you know how  the tickets go through this lottery  and we’re there and it’s the  quarter finals and Germany wins  against France and we of course, I  mean! We get into this trance and  (MORE)(CONTINUED) 

2.

GICA: the exhilaration that goes through  my body and we’re floating through  space and then bang! Against Brazil  seven one, SEVEN ONE, they win  SEVEN ONE! one and one and another one! the shock, in BRAZIL! In their  own country! and we’re there on  purpose and with every win, with  every goal I feel, it creeps up on  me, I just feel emptier and emptier  and we move through the tournament  and waaam they win and I was at the  end of it, I was taken apart, I  have never NEVER in my life felt  such a deep sense of emptiness,  having arrived that left me with  nothing.

MIA:  She gets up, blows it up and bang bang bang because what is she gonna  do. Have they written back to us? Let’s go to Pula!

GICA:  Where is that?

MIA (smiling): Croatia! Extra works!

GICA (smiling): And the redemption song, I’ll make  us another coffee.

MIA: Thank you.

You can purchase the romanian mountain creatures here.

Photo: Giorgia Palmisano
Text: Yael Salomonowitz 

Thank you Andrea Faraguna & Filippo Weck, Ana Ofak & Steffen Berkhahn, Bianca Girbinger & Kristian Rädle and Lena Zimmermann for letting us into your homes.

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