“Resonating-With-Light” (Video) by Edo Paulus is an installation that consists of multiple small electronic units in a natural environment with sunlight. Each unit collects solar energy and transforms this energy into a repetitive bouncing of itself onto a metal tube, thus creating a kinetic and acoustic reaction to sunlight.
“Scrollbars” (Video) by Edo Paulus and Jan Robert Leegte.
A poster designed with reference to colours relating to the history of Cinema by Martin Frostner.
»Artist Clothing« lightboxes designed by Martin Frostner for Lena Malm and Charlotte Enström.
In the installation »Infinite Loop« (2004) a camera is rotated on its side and pointed into a television at close proximity. The camera feeds the image of pixels on the screen back into the TV’s audio and video inputs. The auto focus and auto exposure struggle to gain some coherence expected in an image, but cannot. The result is a fluctuating, oscillating signal.
In »Thaw« (2004) an empty swimming pool, a large mass of black, volcanic, basalt street bricks is interlaced with bricks of white ice. The cube will fall prey to entropy over the course of approximately 8 hours. The ice bricks fuse together and hold on to the bricks as long as possible, causing the structure to warp and sway pendulously before collapse. The brick cube rests on a steel table and hovers over a mirror, which floats above the floor. The mirror has microphones attached to it, which pick up the stochastic dripping of water and is amplified in the space, counting off the time between collapses. Both projects by Chris Musgrave.
»The Celebrity Series«. PDA drawings from Kelly Mark, Thomas Demand, Germaine Koh… Going to art openings and benefit events, Mike Patten meets with well-known artists in the visual arts scene. Once introduced, Patten takes out a small pocket computer, a Palm-type PDA, makes a quick demonstration, then, with explanations out of the way, asks the artist to improvise a small drawing on the device.
»HUO Drawings«. In spring of 2003 Charles Gute had the privilege of proofreading Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Interviews: Volume 1. With an awareness of the author’s art world stature, paired with a name that seems to have a greater-than-average vulnerability to typographic inconsistency, these drawings were created as a kind of cathartic antidote.
»Dutch Tape Funeral March (Marcia Funebre from Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”)«. The work consists of 13 rolls of duct tape initially placed at the top of the 16-foot-high gallery wall. On the day of the opening the rolls of tape were released so that they could “roll” down the wall under their own weight, a process that took over 8 hours to complete. As the tape reached mid-wall, viewers were able to see that there was a continuous strip of sheet music attached to the adhesive side of each roll. This sheet music was an actual transcription of the second movement of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, also known as the “Funeral March,” the linear length of which had been scaled to fit the 16-foot span from ceiling to floor. One of each of the 13 orchestral parts from the original score had been applied to each of the 13 rolls of tape, effecting a kind of super-slow automated performance of Beethoven’s somber work.
»Ant Climb Study #2« (video still) is a perceptual study of duration and movement. Here a live ant climbs the adhesive side of a length of masking tape. Appearing as an abstract mark, the ant’s progress is steady yet nearly imperceptable, akin to the movement of a minute hand on a clock. All projects by Charles Gute.
»No Soda : No Fun« from 2001 is an installation made of white Ikea furniture and black spraypaint by Elisabeth Arkhipoff.
Urban Exercise On Formation. This work by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on the pictorial content of a photographic glass plate negative of the 1950s, multiplied by computer and arranged in “formations”. It speaks of the need to study and understand the formations of the external world and the need to abolish the myth of the “community of inner selves”.
Installation The Crossing consists of five red and white revised replicas of a Nike hooded sweatshirt; one black and white adapted version of an adidas sports jacket; one wall-based net structure/garment with wall-painting and white vest; one pair of hand-made running shorts, a leather-clad metal stick…
Composition in Black and White, consists of 7 x re-constructed versions of an Adidas sports jacket model name ‘Phantom Electric’, made using a range of black and white geometric and reflective fabrics, displayed on gold wire hangers. By Lisa Gallacher.
