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...bodies. One of those was that of Suzette Trouten, 28, a Michigan woman who met Robinson online and traveled to a Kansas motel where he promised her work. Another is thought to be Izabela Lewicka, 22, a Polish immigrant who struck up a friendship with Robinson and, possibly, Lisa Stasi, a Texas single mom whom he employed...
...This is not to say that Schulze's medleys are solely documentary or homages to quotidian occurrences. In perhaps one of the best passages, a Schulze narrator, Danny, is frozen by the singular event of looking into "crocodile eyes," the grainy veneer of a cheap old Stasi desk. "Every time it happens, I promise myself I'm going to talk to the others about this amoeba-like grain in the veneer," he says. "We all have to spend our time staring at these lines and squiggles, which at the far left look like a crocodile's eye. But nobody ever...
...West Berlin. But he seems to have spent most of his time as deputy director of the backwater House of German-Soviet Friendship in Leipzig collecting, analyzing and passing on bits of information. He was thought to be close to his counterparts in the East German intelligence service, Stasi, who were notorious for their crude repression, though he claims he "never saw it." He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, respectable but hardly stellar...
...best thing about both these works--and it sounds almost too good to be true--is that they feel like they're set simultaneously in the past and future. In "Stasi City" one of the twins floats in the air, but she's wearing a yellow and maroon striped sweatsuit with stirrups. She surrounds herself telekinetically with other floating objects, but has pulled from the repository an aluminum Thermos and decade-old office furniture...
...Stasi City" and "Crawl Space," two video installations by Jane and Louise Wilson, will be at the MIT List Center for Visual Arts through April 9. Hours are daily 12 to 6 p.m., Fri., 12 to 8 p.m. Closed Mon. The List is inside the Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St., near the Kendall Square T stop. Admission is free...