The multi-media project Cross Currents is the third part in the Yugoslavian War trilogy with Pietà (Neue Galerie, Graz, 1996, produced in collaboration with scenario URBANO) and Motel Vilina Vlas (Sprengel Museum, Hanover, 1996) forming the second and third parts respectively. Like its predecessors, Cross Currents is based on historical events surrounding the conflicts in Former Yugoslavia, events which placed a spotlight on the sexual dimension of the war. Although passed over in the general coverage of the hostilities, these events involving genocide, rape camps and sexual slavery are in many ways defining symbols of a war which consciously used sex as a cultural and military weapon. While Pietà and Motel Vilina Vlas respectively investigate the genocide and rape camps directly associated with the course of the war, Cross Currents looks at its aftermath through a narrative dealing with the relationship between a young mail-order bride who has fled from Croatia and the Serbian bodyguard hired to ‘protect’ her after she is forced into prostitution in Berlin. This plot conjures up the world of the refugee in flight from the war. In a broader sense, by interrogating this slave trade operating within the prostitution industry, Cross Currents presents an outline of the fundamental intertwining of male and female sexuality within prostitution, one of the institutional heartlands of contemporary western society. The project exists in three different versions: an interactive installation, a video installation, and a CD-ROM . (Dennis Del Favero)