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mail — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:04:20 +0000

»DREAM« June 28, 1963, pillow, mixed media by Stephen Antonakos.

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

»Hooley«, 2008 by Phillip Maiwald.

mail — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:38:00 +0000

»Video as Suburban Condition«, 2007, is a compilation of videos that explores how self-publishing video websites like YouTube change how people imagine suburban places such as back yards or parking lots as settings for showing themselves to others. It was made as a contribution to the »Video as Urban Condition«.

»Untitled I (Google Sleep)«, 2005-2006, installation with photos of anonymous sleeping people. Each photo was selected from an archive of over a thousand of images of sleeping people whose photos were published on the internet and who were found by Google’s image search engine. By Martijn Hendriks.

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.