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»1992«, 2007. Vangelis Vlahos has collected material from different sources (media, internet, state archives, etc.) forming an archive that focuses on the context of the specific renovation in relation to the Greek policies in the Balkans. The research is based on the funding of the renovation of the former Bosnian Parliament building in Sarajevo by the Greek State and deals in general with Greece’s role in the Balkans, during the last 15 years.

»235.000.000.000 / 777.000.000.000.000« (2006) is an intervention at the main train station in Zurich and »Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies« (2004) is a series of billboards, posters and banners published in Bratislava. Both projects by by Oliver Ressler.

»Luftpost« (2003) and

»Rhizome« (2005) by Johannes Vogl.

»China Town Graz« (2003) and

»how to do that?« (2001) by Jun Yang.

“Marches for another season” is an ongoing project of banner marches initiated in 2003. By Tom Nicholson.

»Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year«, 2005. Maja Bajevic.

“Rooftop Room” consists of a tin roof constructed on top of a privately owned flat-roof house in Kustepe, Istanbul.

“Permanently Unfinished House with Cell Phone Tree”. A cell tower is disguised as a tree. The house remains unfinished, so the owners can avoid paying taxes. Visual pollution and deregulation shape both the built and the natural environments. All Projects by Marjetica Potrc.

»The Landscape Is Changing« (2003) shows demonstrators marching in silence through the streets of Tirana with blank mirrors.

In »Double Heads Matches« (2002/03), the production of 20.000 boxes of double-headed matches at Gherla Match Factory in Romania is documented. The production is done manually as the double-phosphorus dipping is not realizable through mechanic production.

»Diamond Corn« (2005). All three projects by Mircea Cantor.

»Table Tennis Players«, 2005, at the ARTZONE in Kyoto by COUMA. A table-tennis table was placed in the center of the venue and the six members stayed at the venue for as long as possible, playing table tennis while completing the work. COUMA consist of six artists who continue to pursue individual careers. The members are: Takehiro Iikawa, Teppei Kaneuji, Yuki Kimura, Manpei Tsurubayashi, Ai Nakagawa and Hyougo Hofuku. They met through playing table tennis. Into their works they reduce the world that emerges when the heights of table tennis are reached.

»G8 -The brooms« (2004) and »Save Manhattan« (2003-2004) by Mounir Fatmi.

»Models, a collection of 132 German police uniforms and how they should be worn« by Erik Kessels shown at the exhibition »Loving your pictures« at the Centraal Museum Utrecht.

»Useful Photography #002« shows a collection of anonymous ebay photography collected and edited by Hans Aarsman, Claudie de Cleen, Julian Germain, Erik Kessels and Hans van der Meer.

»Prothesen«. A video performance dealing with the topic of increasing mobility through technology and the changing behavioral patternerns of everyday life. By Christian Eisenberger and Michael Niemetz.

How one could walk with a lemon. “Complication of the Everyday” by David Adamo and Michael Portnoy.  Video.

Film stills from »Teenage Geography« by Mike Paré.

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.

Selection of images from the series »troops of defense / strategic places« by Vincent Debanne.

“Åsa & Peter”, “No title”,

“Smokeman”, “Dirk & Phyllis” and “No title” by Susanna Hesselberg.

The »Media Pack Board« by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas is used for interactive performances and public screenings.

Tim Berresheim and Jonathan Meese are New Amerika.

»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…