Gelatin

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High Gelatindegrees

by Cosima Rainer

Boy-groups are super and Gelatin are sexy, too. As a genuine fan, I collect all of their photos and the articles on
their gigs. The boys are sooo cuuute, which is why I just can't decide whose name I should write on my
forehead with eye-liner. Is it going to be Ali, or Flo, or P...? I'm quite prepared to wait ages for their appearance.
But I never eat or drink anything beforehand, it'd be too dumb if I had to leave during the show. Well, I have
sometimes actually fainted. But I still enjoy that sort of altered consciousness and trance-like condition in the
midst of the heated, pulsating crowd; sometimes it's as if Gelatin were floating past in an air bubble ... Anyway
I've always got a cuddly toy with me to sacrifice to one of the young gods at just the right moment. This time it's
a cute little brown teddy, just like the one in their video Pinguine Fiction.
Then, after all the waiting, everyone screams at once. We girls feel confident and safe in the mass. Sometimes
we're so loud that you can't even hear Gelatin, they even almost lose the control over their own show. In one of
the hysterical highpoints of their last show, when they were naked, hanging upside down on ropes from the
ceiling, they were bombarded with their favourite utensils, cuddly toys and leeks. Gelatin always give a great
live show. Sometimes they change the whole space and, by doing this, also create extreme reactions from the
audience. Though the best thing of all was when I got very close to their van: I put the palm of my hand against
the window and Toby laid his own hand against it from the inside.

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