“Instant Home” travels in a simple moving box and takes only two minutes to inflate into a pitched-roof house. Complete with furniture. Instant Home set up in locations typically considered uninhabitable- city parking lots to suburbian driveways, to the deserts of the western United States.
“Grand Avenue” (Downtown LA, 1999), “Vasquez Rocks Natural Area” (CA, 1999) and “Santa Monica Beach (LA, 2002). Project by Valeska Peschke.
»Grey Area« (12 Atttempts to hide in an office environment) from 2001, »Fuck It Up and Start Again« (One guitar smashed and mended 7 times) from 2001 and »Individual Features Removed« from 2004 by Sofia Hultén.
»Events With Unknown Outcome« shows various objects (beer crates, a blanket, ball and plastic bag) in the park surrounding the last border watchtower still standing since the GDR in Berlin. Sofia Hultén secretly videotaped whatever happened to the objects from the vantage point of the tower.
“Because every hair is different” and
“Heute bleibt die Küche kalt, wir gehen in den Wienerwald” by Marlene Haring.
In the work Connecting, Victoria Skogsberg recreates a popular ‘psi’ experiment that tests the possibility of receiving messages from the subconscious. In the ‘real’ experiment the ‘receiver’ is situated in a sound proof room, seated on a comfortable reclining chair wearing headphones and large black glasses. White noise is played continually through the headphones and the glasses, equipped with stroboscopic lights, are programmed to emit red flashes into the eyes which allow the body to relax. Skogsberg’s re-creation contains similar props to the real experiment but takes place in what seems like a domestic environment excluding the apparatus and technical equipment we would assume to belong in such a place. Her image suggests that with the right state of mind and a few simple tools it may be possible for anyone to connect to a higher realm.
Endo-Undo (Sales Display of Medical Hip and Knee Prothesis, Endoprothesis) by Jules Spinatsch.
Dance Steps Painting Diptych ”The Technical Vocabulary of an Interior Decorator”,
”The Falling Leaves of St. Pierre” and
“Make it with you: Slow Dance Club” in collaboration with Assume Vivid Astro Focus by Los Super Elegantes.
Nowhere Left To Bury The Dead. Headlines of the Hackney Gazette posters written down by Lucy Harrison and posters of the Hackney Gazette collected by Leigh Clarke.
Defoe Cars. The writer of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe had many pseudonyms and different careers including spy and journalist. When he published Robinson Crusoe he was living in a house in Stoke Newington, a village just outside London. This house is now a cab firm which until recently was called Dafoe Cars.
Spam. List of names of senders of spam email, presented as vinyl text on the walls. By Lucy Harrison.
