Production

2005. Rebekka Reich + Anne Lorenz. TAXI MADRID (Marta / transcription - audio - postcard)

  

MARTA    MARTA-2

Name Play Size Duration
Pista 5
7.5 MB 8:14 min

Play the horn, caravan, paseo de la castellana

You see, I remember once, there was a lot of traffic, no.. like always… I was with… I always remember my brother with a mini… he had a tiny mini… and where there… they never respected him, because the car was so small, then the buses always got in front of him… or they through him out of the road for being so small.

We were close to the Corte Inglés of Castellana and a bomb exploded in one of the Ministries, I don’t remember which one, but…

I think one year they took off a lion’s head or something like that! And Cibeles.. was..

Silence

I would always want to go… with a tank around Madrid (laughter) to climb over all those cars that don’t respect me..

I don’t know, I escaped a bit from myself, maybe because I was half tormented due to my age.

Musical trip to the past – as if I were looking for something in the radio. First, back to the 60’s and later to – I think I finished in 81 with the song?

Annnnndddd… ah, I have something… now I’m in another time, sorry (she laughs)… I am in a previous era.

It happened in 81 or 82? Well, I do remember this, because they sent us to school, to our house… or, I don’t know if it was the same day, but my feeling was that there was a lot of police when I was getting out of school and beside the school in a little corner a military man must have lived or someone important… I remember having crossed the corner to get the bus and there were… policemen with machineguns, no… then, it was like passing over the corner and finding a machinegun pointing at your face.

School playground – Girls that laugh

…we waited… with some friends… I don’t know for what reason, but we have never been very… practicing, no – but it was like a great event, then we to watch how the pope passed by… ahh, the memory I have of an interminable wait, and we were three or four friends… hmmm… really waiting… and talking… and laughing and then the pope went by and it was a question of two seconds.. he passed by on a car with a, in its umit? And then (she laughs). That was all.

Fast sound of a car that goes from left to right…zzzzoooooommmmm

…I didn’t know what to do… with my life. I didn’t know, I didn’t plan to go to University, didn’t know what.. I was going to do.

(Then, to gain some time)… I left Madrid to study English in USA for six months, six months… and I stayed for seventeen years… (laughter)

The image is of… I don’t know if it’s an image that I have now more than anything, you know, like very dry… very hot and dry…

Crickets at night

Aannnnddd like dusty… I think that’s the image I now have, no, because where I now live is very green, very wet,

Crossfade to Castellana, to I was talking about in the beginning

 Then, my impression of Madrid is like.. there aren’t enough trees….

 

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Objects:American Magazine with a psychologic test, Military style bag

 Photo:Filling the test (magazine – pen – my waterseablue sweater)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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