WESTERN FRONT – Ideas Are Linked

Description:

Ideas Are Linked was a performance by Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich composed of a number of short scenes based on the interchanges between two performers of different cultural, artistic, and gendered perspectives.

Seen in black and white, Anna Banana and Jurgen Olbrich wave, smiling in the off-camera direction. Banana is dressed in a white collared shirt and dress pants, and Olbrich wears a vertical white plank with two holes for their arms, reaching their elbows, and one hole showing their face.

Seen in black and white, Anna Banana and Jurgen Olbrich sit on foldable chairs, Banana wears a white collared shirt and dress pants, and Olbrich wears white overalls, both have bare feet. Olbrich reads the newspaper, the floor is covered with a black vinyl sheet and clumps of a white substance.

Seen in black and white, Anna Banana and Jurgen Olbrich wave their newspapers at each other, their arms blurred from motion. Banana stands in a white collared shirt and dress pants, while Olbrich sits in white overalls. The floor is covered with a black vinyl sheet, littered with white powder and other newspapers. The background is white with a single wooden table on the right.

Seen in black and white, Anna Banana and Jurgen Olbrich sit facing each other, as Jurgen, dressed in white overalls, holds a newspaper to their face. Banana, dressed in a white collared shirt and dress pants, is ripping the newspaper pages.

Captions:

Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.
Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.
Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.
Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.
Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.
Anna Banana and Jürgen Olbrich, Ideas Are Linked, photo documentation, Feb 22, 1984.

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We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.