Wish You Were Here

4 min single-channel video projection (2min. excerpt) - 2007

 

Can we ever fully grasp the nuances of a different culture? How possible is it to assimilate?

Wish You Were Here is a 4 min. video projection (looped) that records an improvised exchanged between a German speaker and a non-German speaker trying to learn how to pronounce the name of a famous tourist/historic site in Germany.