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.
HEARTACHE-INSURANCE
since 2003
Multimedia interactive project a soziale performance:
By becoming a member at the Heartache-Insurance one has to offer to do something that will help another member in case of a heartache. In doing so he gains the right to choose between the different offer whenever a heartache occurs to himself. The offers will be
presented anonymously of age and sex on www.liebeskummer-versicherung.de
Members will receive a certain number of lead hearts “broken into two pieces. Eachs Half fits the others, so that the members can identify each other by combining to broken heart halfs, just like the antique greek did with their so called characters, broken pieces of clay pottery. Furthermore every member has to file in their heartache on a form sheet. So that the authorization will bne double checked. What the members offer to each other is up to them. Nobody but the sufferer himself can tell what might help him in a condition of heartache. So it is really a task to the participants to make up something good and there is a brought variety of offers on the website already.
Unfortunately up to now the offers are only available in german. But there might be a Roskilde Festival Version of the heartache insurance in 2008. To participate one has to write his or her offer on a piece of duct-tape that will be placed on ones back. Instead of leaden hearts the members will receive a certain number of kidney beans and a sticker with the heartache-insurance logo to identify each other.
