»house-birmingham« was constructed between the 10th and the 21st of May 2004 in the middle of Centenary Square in Birmingham. Over a period of twelve-days a group of builders aided by student apprentices from the CITB / National Construction College and South Birmingham College simultaneously constructed and deconstructed a series of house shells reminiscent of two interlocking terraces. Five metres high, they were juxtaposed via a rotational symmetry and built from lightweight cellular concrete blocks, involving a new fast-bonding dry-assembly construction technique. By completion of the project, two separate terrace structures had been built in the same place at the same time. By Wolfgang Weileder.
»UNTITLED (NETWORK)«, 2007 performance with 4 laptops featuring Isabel Servan, Ana María Gutiérrez Domínguez, Javier Lobato López and Wojciech Kosma.
»VICTORY ␄«, 2007 performance with laptop and cable at Victory Square Metro Station in Minsk, Belarus. Both projects by Wojciech Kosma.
“Alternative Staircase” Christian Sievers.
»Black Square on Red Square«, 1992. A performance by Irwin in cooperation with Michael Benson, in which a square of black cloth, 22 meters to a side, was unfurled on Moscow’s Red Square, in homage to Kazimir Malevich and suprematism.
“Black Spot”, 2005 was a process in three stages. The first stage was to obtain a Satellite image of an area – in this instance Hyde Park, London. The second was to pinpoint a single pixel on that photograph and replace it with a black square of Polythene. The third was to take a second satellite photograph of the same area. By Phil Coy.
»Help« is a ceiling-mounted copper pipe originally conceived for an art fair. By Christopher K. Ho.
»Everything for Everyone at Once«, 2005 is a 16′ x 44′ rectangle of beige rubberized surface with a one-foot aluminum perimeter. It sits on a slip of land between a parking lot, an interstate highway, an outdoor storage area, a service road, and Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. By Christopher K. Ho and Daniel Bouthot.
“Opening Credits (New York)” and “Stand-In for a Rock’n Roll Altar” by Jacob Dyrenforth.
Safety Graffity on hedges by Katya Sander.
“The Stray Shopping Cart Project” by Julian Montague.
“Reality Soundtrack” by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.
“Intercom” – intervention on loudspeaker of a tramway station in Vienna. By Leopold Kessler.
“Tool for armchair activists” – this machine can receive text messages and convert them into spoken words. By Troika in cooperation with Moritz Waldemeyer.
“C5 Casino” – a roulette wheel was marked on a shut-down fountain in the centre of a roundabout at Europa-Platz in Aachen. The roulette ball was replaced by a moped rider. The corresponding casino was situated in a high-rise flat overlooking the square. By C5.
»Escalator« (permanent marker on escalator, 2003) by Ulrich Vogl.
“Green room” and
“Catapulp-Catapuppet” by Gruppo A12.
»Apparition: The Today Show, NBC, December 31, 2004« by Matthieu Laurette.
»Applied Geometry« (2004) and »The best circular bike ever made« (2003).
»Harness« (2006, A mouse cage mated with a music box. The compulsive energy of a running mouse generates Brahm’s Lullaby) and »Vacancy« (2006, altered toaster) by Robert Wechsler.
“Lighttypewriter” – the 264 light bulbs on the building could be controlled by 264 light switches on the street. By Constantin Luser.
“Die Kühe” and
“Der Leuchtturm” by Andreas Lorenschat.
