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Ken Okiishi
Stills from ‘(Goodbye to) Manhattan’ by Ken Okiishi
Okiishi has been living between New York and Berlin since 2001, and (Goodbye to) Manhattan combines materials from that experience (filmed between 2006 and 2009) into a seventy-two-minute, semiautobiographical transposition of Woody Allen’s classic Manhattan. Okiishi’s cast of characters is pared down to Manhattan‘s three female protagonists, interpreted by key players in the artist’s actual New York/Berlin life; its script is the Google translation, into English, of the German version of Allen’s original.
Watch the video here
Robotlab
Robotlab, ‘The Bible scribe’ (2007)
The installation ‘bios [bible]’ consists of an industrial robot, that writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it recreates the text step by step.
Starting with the old testament and the books of Moses, ‘bios [bible]’ produces the whole book within seven months continuously. All 66 books of the bible are written on rolls and then retained and presented in the library of the installation.
(Robotlab is Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz and Jan Zappe)
Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger, ‘Peter’
The idea of the ‘Peter’ sculpture installation was that all of these sculptures would be clustered together as you see them here in a way that they’re getting into eachother’s space and they make looking at any one sculpture impossible without the interference of all the others. The sculptures are not made by Kippenberger himself, they’re made for him by his assistant Michael Krebber, an artist in his own right.
‘Peter’ was a word that Kippenberger liked to use a lot in a very general way, almost like we now would say ‘whatever’. But it also had a punning aspect in which St. Petersburg was where the Hermitage museum was, and where one could find displayed hundreds of works of art in closed configurations on the walls as opposed to the isolation that we think of in modern western museums.
DEMOCRACIA
DEMOCRACIA, ‘Eat the rich/Kill the poor’ (2010)
Intervention on a hummer limo for transportation of collectors and art lovers during Armory Show 2010, New York. (Photos by Rodrigo Pereda)
Michael Asher
Michael Asher, ‘Think small’ (2010)
Asher’s piece is a reproduction of a 1959 print advertisement designed by Doyle, Dane, and Bernbach for the marketing of Volkswagen in the United States. “Think small” was the tagline in the ad and it became the concept of the campaign. Asher’s piece performs a kind of time travel, stretching back a half a century and replaying a historical campaign for our present consideration. When the “Think small” ads came out, America was firmly committed to a post-war economy perpetuated by the rapid growth of consumerism. Going against that grain, the “Think small” message encouraged investment in a reliable, affordable car rather than an oversized, flashy one. Visually and linguistically, the message of the campaign was to consume less, not more. Yet the ad’s critique of big consumerism performed well for corporate capitalism: many cars were sold, and the ad itself is credited with creating a sea change in the way advertising is created.
(the original ad – right-click and ‘view image’ for enlarging)
Adam Chodzko
Adam Chodzko, ‘Corner’ (2007)
Made for the exhibition ‘Gallery Exchange’ at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main.
Thank you, Jason!
Job Koelewijn
Job Koelewijn, ‘The world is my oyster’ (1998)
At the Fons Welters gallery in Amsterdam, Koelewijn removed a soccer goal-sized part of the back wall, which created a view into the neighboring gardens.
Timm Ulrichs
Timm Ulrichs, ‘Selbstausstellung’ (‘Exhibition of the self’) (1961)