georgia and russia.

24 August 2008 · by Tintin Wulia · in (re)collection of togetherness

Georgia and Russia live together imperfect harmony. Side by side with South Ossetia, which has no passport of its own. Yet.

Ebony and Ivory thought war was obsolete. My piano keyboard was wrong.

I look forward to adding South Ossetia to my passport collection. In the meanwhile, I will be looking into exhibiting only the two passports — Georgian and Russian — on two giant plinths. The work will be called, simply, Georgia and Russia. What more can I say?

On second thought: the title will be Georgia, Russia and the Wrong Piano.

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As a result of an auction in Sarah Vanhee's The Great Public Sale of Unrealised But Brilliant Ideas, my bio has become a collective bio:

When they were thirteen, Tintin Wulia and Christiane Berndes wished that Peter Pan would lose his shadow in their neighborhood, because they thought that Peter Pan was kinda sexy. Night after night, they would think a happy thought, wishing that Peter would find them if they could fly. Nothing happened – Tintin and Christiane discovered that Peter had much preferred Wendy.

Three decades later, Tintin and Christiane are still discovering many things. One, that Peter Pan is a fictional character invented by James Matthew Barrie. Two, that the fact that Peter is fictional doesn’t mean that he’s illusory. They are also discovering that, three, it is not a happy thought that one needs to be able to fly – it is, rather, the combination of a passport and a valid visa. And also, four, that the fact that one needs a passport and a valid visa to be able to fly is just shitty.

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