idea manufacturer, general director of the dream factory
1- THE STATE DOESN’T PLACE BOMBS
2- TO PLACE A PIPE-BOMB LIKE AN AMATEUR, ISN’T IN THE FUNCTION OF THE STATE
3- THE STATE APPROVES LAWS
4- THE STATE MURDERS LAWFULLY
5- THE STATE DOES NOT BREAK INTO APARTMENT, IT IMPOSES TAX
6- THE STATE DOES NOT WRITE „ROMAS TO INDIA“ ON THE PIPE-BOMBS
7- THE STATE SENDS THE PEOPLE ON THE LEGAL WAY TO INDIA
8- MURDER HAVE NO STATE PATIENCE, WHAT THE STATE DOES WITH THE LAWS, THE MURDERS DO WITH THE PIPE-BOMBS
Hüseyin Isik, January 1996, Vienna
OBERWART'95
Question: What ist he difference bewteen a pipe bomb and the residence permit?
Answer: The first kills quickly and painless, the second slowly and painful.
Gypsies in my life
The educator of the dancing bear.
Flowerseller.
People, collecting coal out of the ashes.
The laughter of the girl in tram number 2 on the last ride to Sariyer.
The tinning women.
Beggars, fortunetellers.
Old women, selling dried clove and unripe figs,
with childern in their laps.
Gypsies from Cayirbasi.
Gypsies from Kustepe.
Gypises from Sulukule, that I don’t know.
Gypsyquarters in Gelibolu.
The screaming of the gypsy taxi-driver, in prison with us in Büyükdere (1976):
„For sure I’m going to steal, brother. We are always guilty.“
The most beautiful girl at High School Feriköy, Yurdanur.
Changeover of class affiliation, denying their extraction.
The hangman.
Gypsies, without space neither in the moslem graveyard, nor in the christian.
Time of the Gypsies is teh most beautiful time.
Concentration camps, that I heard and read of, but never seen.
Gypsy musicians, that I searched out in Istanbul.
In Istanbul I never heard real gypsy music, never counted with the Mastica.
In Vienna it’s not easy to be bestowed the titel „gypsy musician“.
Here Gypsies aren’t called Gypsies, but Roma, Sinti etc.
A signpost – ROMA TO INDIA
This signpost is attached to a pipe.
In reality, the pipe is a bomb.
It is a trap.
Dis Romas can’t go to India.
They are blending with the earth.
They died where they were born.
Rom is an Empire.
Why should the Romans go to India?
Caesar isn’t alive any longer anyway.
The one placing the pipe-bomb wanted that the Romas go to India.
But dead can’t go to India.
Romans come from Rom.
First we called the Turks Rum, and then the Greek.
Istanbul was East-Roma.
I was born east of East-Roma. Easted.
The grand poet Mevlana Celalleddin was also a Rum.
Then there is a hard liquor called rum. Seemen drink it.
But dead can’t go to Rom, not to India, they can’t go nowhere and can’t drink rum.