Wisla, 16 mm b/w film, 8 min.

Dabernig's film Wisla shows two performers following the progress of a football game. They observe the playground attentively and gesticulate with the significant gestures of two participants in a conflict. Camera is pointed exclusively at them. At the same time, we hear sounds and the noise from a crowded stadium. As the game is finished, we become aware that the stadium is empty. In fact, Dabernig has combined the shots from the empty Wisla Stadium in Krakow with the sound recordings from two Italian Serie A football matches at the Friuli Stadium in Udine. This combination provokes a complex structure of dualities. "The unostentatious gestures of the two actors", says the artist, "which are nevertheless distinct in their expresiveness, are the catalyst for the incidental patterns which are given meaning by the incidental framework of the football match. As such they become a metaphor of social activity, an ambivalent expression of power and impotence".