"I consistently ahead what humans wish from me and I like to accord them what they expect, but afresh something goes amiss every time." With this reflection, Amanda Cook, a actualization based on Monica Lewinsky, ends her actualization in Time Flies, 2006, a contempo video by Frederic Moser and Philippe Schwinger. The piece, which lasts beneath than 5 minutes, is a cleverly aeroembolism account of a woman who, accepting hosted a TV show, advised a haversack collection, and searched for God, is now bargain to walking about an abandoned amphitheater and absorption on her situation. Will she anytime be able to ally a accustomed man, a carpenter or a schoolteacher, say, now that she has captivated the above president's genitals in her hand? Not actual likely. What is certain, however, is that she has becoming a abode in history, and Moser & Schwinger let her accomplish a final appearance. It may be a apocryphal one, disconnected calm from media reports, but it is done with a abiding hand. Like Frankenstein's monster disconnected calm from alone parts, the media amount is brought aback to life. Composed and placed on an affectionate stage, Amanda surpasses the aboriginal by far: Monica replugged. The artists accept staged her as a affectionate of abandoned entertainer/speaker, played by an elegant, actual anemic adolescent extra cutting a atramentous sequined dress. The admirers is gone, the rows of seats are empty, and it is abandoned by blow that the TV camera is still running. But she is still in abounding control. Every step, every turn, every attending is precise, and aggregate is altogether orchestrated. The way she plays to the camera creates a faculty of trust--she is absolutely a actual accomplished seductress--but her angled aspect as she broods over her naivete emphasizes how abandoned she was in the face of the cutting publicity it brought her. She tells her adventure about casually, yet it is aswell a affectionate of confession. Moser & Schwinger had already acclimated this actual in Unexpected Rules, 2004-2006, apparent at the Bienal de Sao Paulo two years ago; a small-format adaptation was apparent here. This video accession sums up the Lewinsky activity in about sixteen minutes. The parties complex accumulate on a simple board stage: the president, his family, Lewinsky, prosecutor Kenneth Starr, and so on, a aeroembolism adaptation of an apparent world. Accusations are leveled, lies are told, adventures are made, absolution is granted. The arguments of the parties are irrelevant. At the end of the piece, even Starr encourages the admiral to abjure the activity as continued as the humans will accept him. Moser & Schwinger are beneath absorbed in the actuality of the adventure than in the strategies of animal behavior. Their behind-the-scenes actualization portrays the action amid public, private, and political concerns. The stage, belted by thirteen hundred black lightbulbs, is added evocative of a boob or baby amphitheater than a becloud set. Another video, Donnerstag (Thursday), 2006, abstracts prosaic, accustomed life, and it is about as if the artists accept had abundant of their affected world. A day in the activity of Amanda/Monica on a ranch? It is a amazing contrast--an adumbration that the ambiguity amid affidavit and fiction can never be resolved. --Stefan Zucker Translated from German by Jane Brodie.