orig. vinyl-lp in orig.hülle. tracks: a1 train of thought 18:55/ b1 old melody 0:36/ b2 banisters 3:37/ b3 the salon 3:38/ b4 window 4:32/ b5 the near at hand 8:17. "train of thought" was written, directed and edited by daniel laufer. narrators: lucile desamory, muirgen éléonore gourgues, hervé humbert, reading voice: eve bitoun. this record was part of the exhibition "daniel laufer – train of thought" from november 23, 2014 until february 8, 2015 at kunstverein harburger bahnhof, hamburg. curated by anna sabrina schmid. 'in the kunstverein harburger bahnhof, located in the former waiting lounge for first-class ticket holders, laufer designed a video installation revolving around a niche genre of literature called ‘armchair travel’ or ‘room travel’ inspired by the french author xavier de maistre, who wrote voyage “autour de ma chamber” (voyage around my room) in 1795. stories in this genre tell of travellers exploring the everyday world as if it were a foreign country by going on an imaginary journey around their own room. the hungarian film critique béla balázs described room travel as a state of mind in which one explores a space within the mind. laufer achieves the mental leap required to get into the mind-set of the armchair traveller – when the traveller gazing at a nearby object or out a window is transported to another place through the narrative – by relying on a cinematic technique called ‘match cut’, which is often used in film to indicate a change of scenery. this makes the editing technique appear as a modern-day version of the pre-cinematic armchair travel genre. laufer’s exhibition in the kunstverein harburger bahnhof features paintings, objects and a two channel video installation that was filmed partially in the kunstverein’s galleries and the golem club cinema in hamburg. in a transit space defined by high speeds, laufer plays with the idea of the ‘room traveller’ to explore the quiet and subjective slowness of armchair travel and inertia in movement.'(pressetext). sehr gutes exemplar/ very good copy.