Portraits of Francis Bacon, Romy Schneider and Jonny Depp; part of the series “Phantom 00″ by Sonja Feldmeier. “Phantom 00″ resulted from the collaboration of various people of different age, different background, cultural and social affiliation. Looked for were fans which, from their imagination, described the face of their idol. As original material served a digital photo archives which the Criminal Investigation Department uses to produce composite sketches.
»Acoustic Survival Kit« consists of many acoustic atoms. Properly connected each acoustic module gives subtle signals and pulses to the environment. The surrounding light triggers the sound of the module. Changing light conditions affect the quality and level of the emitted frequencies. Signals of grouped modules interfere amongst themselves and with the sounds of the environment. By creating these links, bridges between private and public are established. By Miki Yui.
Video -and soundexperiments in the context of performance, installation and cinema by billy roisz/gnu.
13 rokakko (Japanese battle dragons) featuring portraits of 13 European leaders of right wing parties, being held by performers wearing parliamentary clothing. Performed at Heldenplatz in Vienna, where Hitler held his very first speech. The following leaders were portrayed in 2000: Christopher Blocher, Istvan Csurka, Gianfranco Fini, Gerhard Frey, Mogens Glistrup, Carl I. Hagen, Jörg Haider, Frank Van Hecke, Alexander Lebed, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Miroslav Sládek, Jân Slota and Cornelius Vadim Tudor. Project realised by Anne-Britt Rage in collaboration with Heribert Schiedel.
»Brücke« and »Treppe« (both made from wood, cardboard, newsprint and paint) by Anja Kempe.
»Sundays« by Esme Valk shows 11 dancers performing a polonaise in costumes created from used mattress fabrics.
»Temporary Discomfort« documents Davos, Genoa, New York and Evian/Geneva in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during the global economic summits. It combines different photographical genres: landscape photography, photojournalism and police photography, though here with the camera lens turned back at the security forces.
»We will never be so close again« shows portraits of people waiting in their cars at traffic lights in New York, Zurich and Paris. Both projects by Jules Spinatsch.
The »Media Pack Board« by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas is used for interactive performances and public screenings.
Participating in Andrea Zittel’s »High Desert Test Sites« Marie Lorenz made a Sauna by covering a rock with wicker and plastic.The steam inside the sauna came from pouring water over hot rocks. At night, the temperature in the desert drops significantly so the condensation covered the interior.
»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…
Video “Floating House” – A house adrift on the Atlantic Ocean gets pulled under by the force of the sea. By Paulette Phillips.
»Storage Piece« from 2006 by Haegue Yang. Steming from the situation of absolute lack of storage space, various previous works are transported and stalked in a pile on the wooden palette in order to fullfill another exhibition.
