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DEAR HUNTER
installation, 2009
Custom built robot, 2 monitors, chains.

DEAR HUNTER is a system of three installations. Using mostly readymades, it reveals intersections between hunting and surveillance.

wilderness, longing & feedback, pathos in chains

A robot controlled by a microprocessor is crawling towards his own field of view. The attempts to move forward are so helpless and pathetic, that the chains attached to the floor act not as a tool of holding back a savage beast, but as a security mechanism which helps it to survive – if the “newborn” creature could move freely, it would soon cut of its umbilical cord of energy and optic nerve.

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Time is on my side
Installation, 2008
Record player, socket, thread, boxes

The tone arm of a record player is fixed with a thread, so after one turn, it jumps out of the track and back to its original position. The resulting loop is the first part of the refrain of „Time is on my side“ by the Rolling Stones. Over the period of the exhibition, the record became more and more scratched, resulting in a more and more distorted sound.

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Moses
Video performance, 2008
Video loop, DV (1:40) as a beamer projection on the wall, speakers

The „Hohe Strasse“ in Cologne leads right to the Cologne Cathedral and is one of the most-frequented shopping streets in Germany. There, i payed homage to the biblical character „Moses“ who parted the Red Sea in the Book of Exodus – walking forward, away from the camera with arms stretched out (thus forming a cross) and barrier tapes in my hands. Moses freed his people, my intention was to free the view by parting the crowd of shoppers and creating an empty corridor, an exodus of sight. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the performance was how frictionless the crowd adapted to the situation, a direct reaction to the authority of barrier tape.