In ERB Issue One, we published several photographs from Yamandu Roos’s Europeans (2015). The book is a record of a found continent, with glimpses of forty countries. One photograph was titled, « I am in the Team — Effectivity, Responsibility, Order », and showed a business-casual conga-line leaving a pale blue building in Odessa in 2010. It spoke powerfully to the moment. But there was another photo that Europeans did not include, with most of them conga-lining back in. Back to work? Back to play? Hard to say.
From the office of the future to the office of the past. What endures?
« A black cat sneaks across a flower bed toward a shed, past some asters, and squeezes into a gap an arm's width wide. Some worn-down club-goers lay wasted on sofas, sweat and smoke in a late-summer landscape. » On Berlin clubs and Calvino's cat flâneurs.
« Eine schwarze Katze huscht über ein Blumenbeet in Richtung eines Holzverschlags, an einigen Astern vorbei drückt sie sich in eine armbreite Lücke. Einige Abgefeierte lümmeln auf Sofas; in Schweiß und Rauch in dieser spätsommerlichen Club-Landschaft. » Über Berliner Clubs und Calvinos Katzenflaneure.
→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.
← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
→ → 求索 / 你引导我来未来
← ← 来未来我导引你 / 索求