Orders and Borders
Anja Rau's Flickwerk explores the real meaning of a German cellphone ad in which a chameleon escapes into the city -- and the city changes color. Release of tension? Denial of [b]orders?
Or perhaps this is about the sensual liberation of Pleasantville, the grey city of our isolation brought back to life by the wild little creature? Recall Bricklin's observation: cell phones replaced CD players as the Things We Carry on the street because phones give us direct contact with people we care about. Audio discs and radios gave us broadcast contact from the stars and the music industry, and that's not nearly as alluring as the chance to make contact with people we know, to flirt or play games or simply to phone home.