In the intervention »Trial-Living in Slubfurt«, the loggia at the Place of Heroes in Slubfurt* is directed westward. Folding-stools, table and grill-ton are ready to use. Interested parties are given a key to gain access to the loggia nearby the monument against Fascism. The walls are painted in the prefered colour of the temporary user (*Slubfurt is an artificial word, a combination of Slub(ice, Poland) and (Frank)furt at the river Oder).
In the intervention »Pulheim Castling« two square areas (5×5 meters) are selected. One is located in front of the Pulheim high school. The other is located in front of the abbey in the district of Brauweiler, a distance of 5 kilometres. With the help of a professional archaeologist the sites are measured, meticulously documented and then their locations are exchanged. Road surfacing, grass, asphalt, bicycle stands, a piece of fence and garbage bins change location. The cobblestones and their white marking lines are clasped in a steel girder for transport. They are carefully re-aligned in their new location.
The portable park bench »TRASBA« was designed with two configurations in mind. In it’s furniture-configuration the TRASBA provides seating space for up to 6 persons. In it’s mobile configuration it rests on the shoulders of one strong carrier-person. It can be moved effortlessly over several kilometres. All projects by Christian Hasucha.
»Oahu« is a wooden wave island placed in front of the water-castle Villa Concordia in Bamberg/Germany.
»Jungle & House«.
The installation »Holiday On Ice« is based on a classic ice skating rink built inside a penitentiary in Erbach/Germany, in which the inmates were invited to participate in an icehockey tournament. By Gregor Passens.
»Attributing Value (Refractions)« is an ongoing video series documenting various artist’s works. The works are environmentalized and refracted through the structural data of artist Damon Zucconi himself. Sofar completed are Bruce Nauman: 100 Live, 100 Die; Carsten Nicolai: Syn_Chron; Pierre Huyghe: L’Expedition scintillante; Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipse VI; 0100101110101101.org: jodi.org “%20Transfer”.
»Zenith Alignments«. Using star tracking software, minor zenith alignments with celestial bodies were found to occur at multiple intervals throughout the course of the day over various locations. These precise locations were located via GPS. 3-point areas were located at sites of the zenith alignments. These areas were highlighted and clearings were made to coincide with the alignments. So at the moment of the alignment Damon Zucconi would be exposing the ground and aligning himself with the line that extends to the star. These specific alignments were unique to these specific locations, occurring once an annual cycle. This could largely be seen as the process of integrating himself with 90 degree angles, in turn, demarcating larger phenomenological alignments and relations: “the body mapped onto the land onto the heavens above.”
»’At’ Asserting its Object Status«. Found sculpture.
»2d Orthogonal Line Drawing«. Drawing with laser and mirrors. All projects by Damon Zucconi.
In »Cop Talk« (2005/2006), representatives from national police forces are invited to give presentations at art academies in Europe, illustrating the opportunities within such a career and encouraging students to join up. For a country to have an effective police force, its constituent employees should reflect the demographics of its society. It is perhaps inevitable that members of arts communities are under-represented in the nations policing and this presentation is an attempt to address this situation and to begin to reverse this bias. Project initiated by Chris Evans.
»Klok« and
»Vuilnisbak« (both from 1995) by Marjike van Warmerdam.
“Autonomous Instrumental”, “Acoustic Space Mirror” and “Theremin” by Haroon Mirza.
»Living With A Log«. A forty-two foot long log weighing two tons, was obtained, transported and placed inside of private residence.
»Exploding The Glass«.
»30 Pounds Of Salt«. Seasalt aquired during the project »This Garden, making salt and evaporation drawings«. All projects by Hugh Pocock.
A fast rotatign LCD-monitor generates three dimensional phantom images which can be observed from all sides, without the aid of special glasses or the like. The image shown is a simple vector movie based on the novel »Flatlands« by E. A. Abbot, in which a square living in a two dimensional world receives a visit from a ball. This Spatial Vision Device is called »Hanoscop« in tribute to an inventor, Mr. Hanisch, who patented a machine based on similar principles in 1966
»The Flying Carpet« is a hovercraft powered by a leafblower.
The propeller of a marine outboard engine has been replaced by wheels, which make the »Independent Trailer« an autonomous vehicle.
»Spleen« is a freeze-frame explosion, an autopsy on motor and chassis that encapsulates the utopian fantasy of the overhauled scooter, driving off into the sunset.
»Das Schaukelhaus«.
A »Bonanzarad« has this name only in German speaking Europe. Teenagers, who invented it in the 60s in Long Beach and built it out of junk, never had the intention of constructing something faster or better than existing bikes, rather it was a pre-teen, Pop era status symbol. The many details and saddle seat evoked the feeling of riding a horse or an Easy Rider motorcycle. A playing card mounted in the wheel spokes created a motor-like noise, just as here, the chainsaw is used constructively. Through an alteration to the chain on the rear wheel, the vision is obtained, and the Wannabe‘s dream is realized…
By pedaling, electricity is generated that powers the motor for an electric wheelchair, that makes the »Healed Home Exercise Bike« move. The tachometer indicates the phantom-speed.
By controlling the suction of 35 burning cigarettes the »Cigarette Display« device can display simple graphics, letters and symbols. All projects by David Moises.
»Marclay’s Bike«, a modified BMX from 2006 and »Delay« (Microphone, tripod, power amplifier, revox, cables) from 2005,
»Rushmore Mount« from 2005 and »Burning Mrs O’Leary’s Cow« (DVD video) from 2006 by Dominique Blais.
“La Dent Blanche” and
“Study for a Painting of a Lonely Heart” by Stefan Banz.
In the project »Corpus« Vidar Hertov investigates diffrent aspects of value. His attempt is to see if it’s possible to do a value transformation from one object to another. Using the car as a precious material and then treating it very ruff to let the material represent the value in the final product.
»The Bowl« by Vidar Hertov.
Performance “Stolen kiddy bike”,
live performance object “Crack Canavas”
and posters by Sonido Gris.
Street Jewellery by Damien Regamey.
Tokyo Art Machine, selling works by European and American artists in Japan. UK Art Machine, selling works by Japanese Artists in the UK. By Yoke and Zoom.
Road rage by Yoke and Zoom.
A Full Folded Dictionary by Sam Winston. The sculpture contains no adhesive or binding and its shape is emerged from the 80,000 folds that went into it.
»Gott erscheint am Kopfkissen« from 2005 by Tazro Niscino . Containers are constructed around the statue at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst in Gent.
Hegel, Kafka, Kant and Jung by Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez.
“Leisurely Terrorists” by Sarah Bednarek.
