has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
(Unintended interpretations #)
You brothers, who are mine,
Poor people, near and far,
Longing for every star,
Dream of relief from pain,
You, stumbling dumb
At night, as pale stars break,
Lift your thin hands for some
Hope, and suffer, and wake,
Poor muddling commonplace,
You sailors who must live
Unstarred by hopelessness,
We share a single face.
Give me my welcome back.
-H.Hesse
Inspired by the film "Man On Wire" this piece juxtaposes two iconic events in the life of the Twin Towers in New York City. One is the amazing tightroping stunt performed by Phillippe Petit in 1974 just before the towers were completed. The other is the horrific attack of 2001 orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden which brought about the Twin Tower's destruction.
Both clandestine schemes were carried out by foreign cells making multiple trips to the US for research. Both had a charismatic leader inspiring a dedicated core group of collaborators working on different continents. The similarities between these two events is uncanny and remarkable, but their ends and goals could not be more disparate.
Two ambitious spectacles. One purely violent. The other, ultimately harmless and playful.
