Cia Rinne
Cia Rinne (Gothenburg, Sweden, 1973) is a poet and artist based in Berlin. She writes minimal, visual and acoustic poetry in different languages, and collaborates on performances and sound installations. Her publications include the books zaroum (Helsinki, 2001), notes for soloists (OEI Editör, 2009), both published in France too with Le clou dans le fer (zaroum et notes pour solistes, 2011) and as UBU Editions, as well as the sound piece sounds for soloists (in collaboration with Sebastian Eskildsen, 2012) and should we blind ourselves and leave thebes (H//O//F, Moss, 2013). Works of hers have been shown a.o at Signal Malmö, the Turku Biennial, the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, the Grimmuseum Berlin, Den Frie and Overgaden in Copenhagen, at the ISCP in New York, and at INCA Seattle. She has also collaborated on documentary projects with photographer Joakim Eskildsen, their latest common publication being The Roma Journeys (Steidl, 2007). Her new book including the recent series l’usage du mot was published by kookbooks (Berlin) in 2016.
sent a letter
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a brief brief
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dear ,
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xx
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you lack three things:
o …
o …
o …
(three letters each)
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sir titude
sir tainty
sir tainly
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the idealist
idea
idea
idea
idea
idea
idea
ideally, continue.
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it is only getting better/
it is only getting worse/
it is only getting better/
it is only getting worse/
it is only getting
i bet
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friends and enemies
(stockhausen’s childhood)
the french were our enemies
and the english were our enemies
and the italians were our friends
and the spanish were the friends
and the japanese were the friends
and the russians were the friends
(but that changed a year later;
then the russians were enemies as well)
and the finnish were friends, etc.
I didn’t know what to do with this.
(childhood friends)
the russians were our enemies
and the americans were our friends
and the french were our friends
and the italians were our friends
and the british were our friends
and the communists were our enemies
and the capitalists were our friends
and we didn’t know what to do about it.
(adult enemies)
the americans are no longer our friends
and the russians are no longer our enemies
but the muslims are our enemies
and the immigrants are our enemies
and the terrorists are our enemies
and the gypsies are our enemies
and we don’t know where it all will lead.