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mail — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:53:32 +0000

»On the First Day«, 2011 by Ry Rocklen.

mail — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:32:24 +0000

»Hooley«, 2008 by Phillip Maiwald.

mail — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:01:24 +0000

»Airstrip One« (2007) shows official FAA airport diagram documents of 23 domestic airports that Hasan Elahi has slept in transit.

»Tracking Transience: Altitude« shows a collection of over 450 airline meals that Hasan Elahi has eaten between December 2002 and January 2007.

mail — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:53:12 +0000

Pictures from the series “No sleep before I die” by Sibylle Fendt.

mail — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:41:07 +0000

“Resurrections II” by Harm van den Dorpel.

mail — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:16:05 +0000

“Untitled (Sleepers, Berlin) I”, “Untitled (Sleepers, Berlin) III” and “Untitled (Sleepers, New York) I” by Mariana Castillo Deball.

mail — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:30:40 +0000

The garage opens itself in a reversed direction by using its two garage doors as static walls which make this opening function possible.

Robert Barta changed his sleeping rhythm in order to stay awake during the night and sleep the day a week before the show. During the opening hours people could see Barta sleeping under the glass and walk over him.

The steps of the ladder move up- or downwards due to the visitors` position. This movement, controlled by a motion detector stops after a short period of time. This principle of switching on an escalator is known from daily life and adapted to this simple aluminum ladder. All three projects by Robert Barta.