»IN THE GRIP OF THE LOBSTER«, 2006, (290 x 396 cm, cotton, linen) by Cosima von Bonin.
“The Mystery of God Revealed“, 2004 by Heidrun Holzfeind. The video tells the story of Hal Beckoff, a 62-year-old singer, actor and writer from New York. In 1997 he quits his 10-year job as a legal secretary at a law firm in Manhattan to devote all his time to writing his second book, a bible interpretation called “The Mystery of God Revealed”.
»Plane Landing«, 2008 is a sculpture of an airplane in a permanent state of landing. On July 4 and 5, 2008 Plane Landing appeared at the Zurich Airport. By Aleksandra Mir.
»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.
»Scenic Overlooks«, 2005 by Ayse Erkmen offers an homage to a way of experiencing images that is slowly dying out. Eighty-four landscapes (generic desert, mountain, and forest images purchased from a data bank) were projected onto the barrier wall. These oversize electronic postcards unfold gradually in uneven sections, from top to bottom, like an image file opening on a computer with a slow modem connection.
“The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else”, by Lisa Oppenheim. 35mm slide projection using images downloaded from the internet of sunsets taken by soldiers in Iraq, then positioned in front of the setting sun in New York.
“Everything You Rearranged/Everything You Left The Same (The Branch)”, 2008 and “Everything You Rearranged/Everything You Left The Same (The Car)”, 2008 by Alexandra Navratil.
Excerpt from a CAD video fly-through of the »The House That Herman Built« project by Jackie Sumell. A house dreamed by Herman Joshua Wallace, who has spent over thirty-six years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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