Brest (F), 1917
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?
Brest (BLR), 1956
Urban sites are visited by a figure, dressed in a camouflage suit, who shows neither the traits of an individual, or even of a person. The socalled ‘Ghillie Suit’ was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting and that was later also used during the First World War. Its camouflage effects the anonymisation and the neutralisation of the person who wears it in public. macghillie, a -prefer not to- figur, an actor without idenity, transforming past and future into here and now, oscillating between the hyperpresence of a mask, and visual redundancy. It traverses the modern urban environment in which conspicuity holds ambivalent currency, wavering between cumbersome affirmation and visual arbitrariness. It is a variation of types like ‘Bloom’, ‘Bartleby’, or the ‘man without qualities’, which have transgressed their original literary existence and have become the tropes of philosophical debates around the postmodern politics of subjectivity.
Coffeebreak of a devolution, 2012
The ongoing project consists of :
- macghillie murmuring, withdrawing from self, re-visiting the history of camouflage and cybernetics. http://macghillie.krcf.org/1
- macghillie here, there, anywhere. urban remnants. http://macghillie.krcf.org/2
- free access to macghillie-suits in different towns, don`t become a STAR, become macghillie! http://macghillie.krcf.org/
- macghillie featured by Cabaret Voltaire Zurich http://macghillie.posterous.com/
RIXC, Riga, “Art of Resilience”, 2012
reART:theURBAN, Zürich 2012
St. Moritz Art Master, “MacGhillie”, 2012
Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, “Al Dadaida: The Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism”, 2012
Moscow Biennale, “DADA Moscow”, 2011
Museo MAGA, 2011
Share Festival, Turin, 2010
Folkwang Museum Essen, Hacking the city,2010
U- Zentrum für Kunst Dortmund, TRUST 2010
Karthause Ittingen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Schritte ins Verborgene, 2010
Expodium Utrecht, Mind the Bollocks!, 2010
[plug.in] Basel, online project beam me up, 2010
Kunstpassanten Zürich, urban intervention 2009
Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, September 09, clandestine 4 days-Performance, 2009
