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.
This neon sculpture was first shown in the "Gallery 7/8ths Compassion", located in the Sternstrasse (Star Street) in Hamburg, which is next to the industrial slaughter houses of Hamburg.
One of these neon pieces ended up hanging in the Berlin Bendlerblock building, in the offices of the Federal Republic of Germany Department of Defense in the 1990's (it was purchased by Rudolf Scharping's Press Secretary). Don't know what ever happened to that one ... this one is still in my studio.
Curtis recorded all of her intimate conversations for a year. Nine 45-second segments of recordings from these conversations projected from 9 ducts. Curtis synchronized these segments so that every 45 seconds all 9 conversations happen to contain the same word simultaneously. Curtis transcribed all of her year's conversations to find a common word; she did not know what the word would be when she began. It was 500+ hours of transcribing, an hour of transcribing every day, plus 25 art assistants contributing time.
Installation mit 8000 Büchern und Computerkomponente auf 35 m2
Diplomausstellung in den Bildhauerateliers der Kunstakademie Wien.
Installation zur Entsprechung der eigenen Überforderung von der stetig wachsenden Menge an neuen Informationen durch den medial explodierenden Informationsfluss und der parallelen Unmöglichkeit einer derart fragmentierten Kommunikation dieser Daten in streng pragmatisch- linguistischer Hinsicht.
8000 im Raum aufgereihte Bücher bilden ein Basisfragment, ein begrenztes Archiv aus einem unendlichen Ganzen auf dem ich mich bewege und aus jenem ich selektiere um meinen persönlichen Blickwinkel, eine Achtelkugel aus zerschredderten Büchern unter der Decke mit Anmutung eines Schwalbennestes, auszumachen.
Unterstrichen wird dieses Setting von zwei Computerstimmen, welche aus Wickipedia und dem Guttenberg-Onlinebookarchiv durch Schrifterkennungs- bzw. Sprachprogramme miteinander kommunizieren
