FACT, Liverpool 2010, “MyWar – Identity and Appropriation under War Condition”
A voice is retelling a TV-report about a failed and half way interrupted suicide attack of a Palestinian boy on an Israelian checkpoint, or, is the voice renarrating an imagination about a hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security [...]
huwwara_anybody, looking
March 8 10
macghillie – just a void
January 10 10
macghillie is roaming around, defying a goal, without intention, withdrawing from purpose, crossing the cybernetic loops. macghillie defies classification, attributions are shifted into the void, no will to communicate. recognition does not help. how long this can last in a postutopian space? are there moments for something that does not want to be anything?
be prepared! tiger!
October 29 09
FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History
Cleaning up after the 20th century. What is progress now?
LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón, Spain, 22.10.2009 – 05.04.2010
Feedforward. The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forceslargely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies [...]
my Black Cat
September 15 09
Aros Museum, Aarhus 2009
My black cat is black
My black cat is rebellious
My black cat is not easy to control
My black cat is not a variable
My black cat is undefinable
My black cat is irregular
My black cat is illegal
NEWBORN – undeliverable?
September 14 09
A NEWBORN sign was circulating through the media, i.e. New York Times, Syndey Morning Herald, BBC and Pravda, and had been made visible by hundreds of internet-postings in blogs, Flickr and Youtube. The media presence made the sign apparently hyperprecise and generic: One could get any information about the sign: Produced by the global advertising [...]
BlackBenz Race
September 13 09
BlackBenz Race BBR focuses on the often hidden space of Albanian migrants in Switzerland. BBR is aiming to render temporarily visible the dynamics of the Swiss/Albanian migrational space by conducting a semi-fictional car race from Zurich (CH) via Bari (IT), Tirana (AL) and Tetovo (MAZ) to Pristina (Kosovo, UNMIK controlled) and back to Zurich. A [...]
Die Lesegesellschaft
June 12 09
“Die Lesegesellschaft” konstituiert sich für 6 Monate in Ludwigsburg als eine per Telefon adressierbare Gemeinschaft, die sich an einer gefalteten Betonmauer im Stadtraum auditiv manifestiert. Als Ausgangspunkt des Projektes haben Teilnehmer/innen von Integrations- und Deutschkursen ihre eigenen Lieblingstexte ausgewählt und in ihrer jeweiligen Muttersprache und in deutscher Übersetzung über ein Telefon in die Mauer der [...]
naked bandit/ installation
June 11 09
“naked bandit / here, not here / white sovereign” […] addresses places where suspects are held, and where their rights as citizens and their legal status as prisoners of war are suspended. In their interactive installation […], knowbotic research have created a setting in which the arbitrariness of anonymous free-floating power can be perceived, but [...]
naked bandit / code work
June 11 09
naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign
set-up for audio, code processes and the voice of the audience
knowbotic research 2005
minds of concern
June 10 09
knowbotic research’s Minds of Concern::Breaking News consists of a gallery installation, web interface, and news-tickers. The project web site contains a Minds of Concern list of groups, movements, and non-governmental associations (NGOs) that have a global presence on the Internet. By clicking a name, visitors trigger a set of network processes that investigate the security [...]