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Je Suis Malade (2008 – ongoing)

video series
2008 – 0ngoing
one-channel video, sound,  installation, 4 min 38 sec

In the video series Je Suis Malade (2008 – ongoing) children 8 -10-year-old, girl or a boy, are reinterpreting the French chanson Je Suis Malade, originally sung by the Egyptian-born French singer Dalida. The video is filmed in such a way, that the performer is standing peacefully in an unidentifiable dark space so that only she is visible. The content of the song the girl is singing in a language she does not understand, has a theme that is inappropriate for her age. In fact, the text is speaking about a woman in great pain due to her unrequited love. Formally the video is made in one single shot and loop-projected. The song’s lyrics, which highlight lovesickness and paralysis it ensues, contrast with the child’s performance, which amounts to an instrumentalization of the quintessence of youthful innocence for purposes of visual consumption. Indeed, this blonde girl becomes herself the generic child attempting to convey to us a product in a language and experiences foreign to her. This is in and by itself, a subtle illustration of the pathology (malady) of our globalize consumerist society.

Je Suis Malade feat. Fidan/ Azerbaijani Version, 2014

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Fidan, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec

Je Suis Malade feat. Tanja/ Ukranian Version, 2011

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Tanja, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec

Je Suis Malade feat. Kip/ Australian Version, 2011

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Kip, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec

Je Suis Malade

installation view, Je suis malade / three-channel video installation, exhibition Donetsk goes contemporary, Donetsk, Ukraine, 2011

Je Suis Malade feat. Nibras/ Indonesian Vers. 2017

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Nibras, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec

Je Suis Malade feat. Maggie/ Australian Vers. 2011

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Maggie, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec

Je Suis Malade

frame from the promotional video Je Suis Malade

Je Suis Malade feat. Si Tompel/ Indonesian Version, 2017

frame from video Je Suis Malade feat. Si Tompel/ Indonesian Version, HD Video, 4 min 38 sec. The puppet is produced in collaboration with Iwan Effendi

Je Suis Malade

 

Je ne rêve plus je ne fume plus
Je n’ai même plus d’histoire
Je suis sale sans toi je suis laid sans toi
Je suis comme un orphelin dans un dortoir

Je n’ai plus envie de vivre ma vie
Ma vie cesse quand tu pars
Je n’ai plus de vie et même mon lit
Se transforme en quai de gare
Quand tu t’en vas

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu’elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
T’arrives on ne sait jamais quand
Tu repars on ne sait jamais où
Et ça va faire bientôt deux ans
Que tu t’en fous

Comme à un rocher comme à un péché
Je suis accroché à toi
Je suis fatigué je suis épuisé
De faire semblant d’être heureux quand ils sont là

Je bois toutes les nuits mais tous les whiskies
Pour moi ont le même goût
Et tous les bateaux portent ton drapeau
Je ne sais plus où aller tu es partout

Je suis malade complètement malade
Je verse mon sang dans ton corps
Et je suis comme un oiseau mort quand toi tu dors

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
Tu m’as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m’as vidé de tous mes mots
Pourtant moi j’avais du talent avant ta peau

Cet amour me tue et si ça continue
Je crèverai seul avec moi
Près de ma radio comme un gosse idiot
Écoutant ma propre voix qui chantera

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu’elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade c’est ça je suis malade
Tu m’as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m’as vidé de tous mes mots
Et j’ai le cœur complètement malade
Cerné de barricades t’entends je suis malade

 

I Am Sick

I can’t dream no more, I can’t smoke no more
I don’t even have a personal history no more
I am dirty without you, I am ugly without you
I am like an orphan in a dormitory

I don’t feel like living my life no more
My life stops when you leave
I don’t have a life no more and even my bed
Turns into a platform on a train station
When you leave

I am sick completely sick
Just like my mother when she used to go out at night
Leaving me alone in my despair

I am sick, perfectly sick
You arrive – one never knows when
You leave again – one never knows where to
And it’s been nearly two years
Since you last gave a damn

Like on a boulder, like on a sin
I am hooked on you
I am tired, I am exhausted
Of pretending to be happy when they are here

I drink all nights but all the whiskies
taste the same to me
And all the boats exhibit your flag
I don’t know where to go anymore, you are everywhere

I am sick, completely sick
I pour my blood into your body
And I am like a dead bird when you are asleep

I am sick, completely sick
You have deprived me of all my songs
You have emptied me of all my words
Though I was talented prior to your skin

That love is killing me and if things keep going
I’ll die all alone with myself
Near my radio like an idiotic kid
Listening to my own voice that will sing

I am sick, completely sick
Just like my mother when she used to go out at night
Leaving me alone in my despair

I am sick, that’s it, I am sick
You deprived me of all my songs
You emptied me of all my words
And I have a sick heart
Surrounded my barricades, can you hear me? I am sick!