»Nogales« pairs a single 35mm slide-image of the walled town of Nogales, divided along the US/Mexican border, with an audio recording of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech at the Berlin Wall, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, 2008 by Maryam Jafri.
“Reconstruction of the oldest piece on earth” and photography of the oldest piece on earth (Text on photo: Oldest piece on earth/approx. 80 million years/No Photos/National Maritime Museum Greenwich. GB). By Mahony.
»Once Upon A Time«, 2002, a sequence of 116 slide base color images streamed through a PC hard drive and rear projected onto a screen with an integrated soundtrack. By Steve McQueen.
Functional replica of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen’s Chess Turk recreated by the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn (In 1769 the Hungarian engineer Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built a chess playing machine for the amusement of the Austrian Queen Maria Theresia. It was a mechanical device, shaped like a Turk, and it became the most famous automaton in history).
Photographs from the »Scene« series by Tomoko Yoneda. »Beyond Memory and Uncertainty«. American B-52 returning from a bombing raid on Iraq, Fairford. »EnglandBeach«. Location of the D-Day Normandy Landings, Sword Beach, France. »Forest«. Location of the Battle of Somme, Delville Wood, France.
»Uni-Form/s: Self-Portrait/s«, 2006. All the uniforms that Do-Ho Suh wore in 39 years.
»Fascia«. The structure of the apparatus gradually takes control over the face, pulling and stretching the skin, eyelids and lips into controlled/mechanized grimaces.
»Public Sauna«. For Pia Lindman an artist born and raised in Finland, public sauna bathing is a significant part of her identity. In the United States, issues of nudity prevent an experience of a Finnish sauna event both socially and physically. To further negotiate this cultural disjunction, she designed and built »Public Sauna« in the court yard of P.S.1. and kept it open for the public to bathe. During the year of 2000, approximately one thousand visitors at P.S.1. used the sauna.
»New York Times Performances«. Having collected images of mourners from the New York Times for one year, Pia Lindman took the bodily gestures of the mourners out of the news context and made drawings/diagrams. These images ranged from the aftermath of the World Trade Center, terrorist attacks in Israel, funerals of Palestinians, Chechnyans, to Russians. Using these drawings as her instructions she re-enacted the gestures in front of a video camera in her studio without revealing their original context. Later she moved into the public space and performed the re-enactments live. The locations have varied from Rachel Whiteread’s Holocaust Memorial on Judenplatz in Vienna, Battery Park New York, Mexico City…
»Believe« (Levitation in the Studio) 2002 and »Untitled« (Vulture in the Studio) 2002 are two of three videos taking place in João Onofre’s Lisbon studio. »Believe« pits the eternal power of magic against technology by inviting a traditional magician couple to perform a levitation in the artist’s studio. In (Vulture in the Studio) the wild animal climbs onto the tables mounted on easels that enclose the studio space, nibbling on the sheets of paper pinned to the wall as well as the books and catalogues arranged on shelves, and tries to take flight.
In the third video »Catriona Shaw sings “Baldessari sings Lewitt” re-edit, “Like a Virgin”« 2003, a passable vocalist interprets Madonna’s famous song Like a Virgin, but with altered lyrics: excerpts from Sol Le Witt’s “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969, which had already been sung by John Baldessari in 1978. Accompanying the video is an extended version original video soundtrack was released. Vinyl record, edition of 20 pieces.
»Instrumental Version« 2001, features the Chamber Choir of Lisbon, performing an acappella version of “The Robots,” an old electronic favorite from Kraftwerk’s 1978 album Man Machine. Vinyl record, edition of 20 pieces. All works by João Onofre.
“Photoshop Performance” by Oskar Dawicki,
“LEGO Concentration Camp Series” by Zbigniew Libera,
“Map Trap” by Wilhelm Sasnal and
“Faith in Means of Transport” by Zbigniew Rogalski. All: Raster.
Self-portrait with the Prosecutor Jeffrey Nice, 2003 and Self-portrait in White Shirt, 2002. During two years, Ivan Grubanov was frequently part of the severely limited audience in the trial to Slobodan Milosevic at the International Tribunal in The Hague.
Visitor series, 2002-3. Although he did not have the required authorization, he was successful evading surveillance cameras and other security measures as to make over two hundred drawings of the hearings, accompanied with short phrases that he wrote down, taken from the oral proceedings.
Tribune for a Leninist by El Lissitzky, shown at the Russian Utopia. The Russian Utopia is a compact depository of 480 architectural projects from the last 300 years of the Russian history that have never been carried out.
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