Public Space Beirut, 8 Taxis, Goethe Institut Beirut, Zico House Beirut, Gallery SD Beirut, Lebanon
Mobile Installation of 86 hours.

8 local collective taxis follow a given pathway through the city crossing a variety of segregated areas. An electronic sound art piece is displayed during the trip based on a dialogue in the movie « Beirut -The encounter» (1981) by Borhan Alaouie. In the original dialogue the 2 characters of 2 different religions record their thoughts on an audio-tape to each other reflecting two different positions facing civil war, as one decides to leave the city and one decides to stay.

To listen to the sound art piece, passengers can take the taxi at 3 taxi stops or catch it randomly during the trip. 3 Video-Installations are shown in parallel at the Goethe Institute Beirut, Zico House, Gallery Espace SD showing a collage composed of material of the original film and material shot in contemporary Beirut. The work revisits the concept of Habitus after Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu while making use of a common transport system and limited time line.

Electronic sound piece composition: Perceval Bellone
Voices: Leila Mansour and Wissam Khalil
With kind support of ENSAPC Paris, Institut Francais, Goethe Institut Beirut, Zico House Beirut, Gallery SD Beirut
Thank you Borhan Alaoauie, Zico, Monika von Krafft, Wadieh Saffiedine, Jalal Toufic and the associated taxi drivers.

Skyscraper Berlin-Hellersdorf, Germany

Painted boat skeleton 700 cm x 180 cm, DLR graffiti logo (commissioned to a local graffiti Artist), T-Shirt creation for 12 sailors

The work das boot was created during an Artist-in-Residence stay in Berlin-Hellersdorf known for its socialist module type based architecture characteristic for former East Germany architecture style. After the fall of the wall many urban regions were deserted with people preferring another life style or in search of jobs and apprenticeships and most of the apartments became untenanted. 2 of the skyscrapers where turned into an Art project giving 50 international artists the possibility to create new work during a period of 3 months. das boot reflects on the moment of transition in fabrication of the urban and societal tissue while proposing a boat skeleton placed into a playground. In a desire of collaboration with some Graffiti Artists present in the urban area of a logo is commissioned to one of them using the letters DLRG (German Life Saving Association) for a series of wearables of team members who participated in the work creation.

With kind support of Bundeskulturstiftung, Shrinking Cities Program Initiative
Curator: anschlaege.de (Christian Lage, Steffen Schuhmann, Axel Watzke)

Museum Shuttle Bus Kieler Museumsnacht, Germany
Sound – and Light installation, 10000 papers, violet semi-transparent film for windows.

An electronic sound art piece created from audio-video material using the technique of repetition, acceleration and reversal of a theme is displayed for Museumsnacht Shuttle Bus Audience. The windows are covered with violet transparent film to create an atmosphere of Twilight. Some piles of paper are installed at the center of the Bus to engage with Audience on the dichotomy chaos-order, idealism and reality.

With kind support of Museumsnacht Kiel Germany
Curator: Ulrich Horstmann, Gallery Umtrieb Kiel Germany

West-Germany Art Space Kreuzberg Berlin, Germany
Wall Painting 700 cm x 400 cm

The work is a reproduction of a functional wall painting depicted from the Central Istanbul Bus Station into a gallery space located in Berlin Kreuzberg. In a text by Susan Sontag in the book “On photography” she states “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” The work reproduces a photography taken from a functional painting in a public space into a Museum space generating the question of authorship.

With kind support of West-Germany Art Gallery Berlin.

Garden Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Berlin Germany

The work is composed of the wrapped Artist’s Archive. As an intervention in the outer space of the National Museum for Contemporary Art the work thematizes the question of participation, inclusion and space.

With kind support of Democracynow.org

Bay of Zlarin Island, Croatia
Duration: 5 nights of 6 hours

1001 tea candle lights are placed on the water surface as their positions are fixed through an underwater string and weight system so to mirror the star system in its summer constellation. The greek title suggests a place, an interval or a vase located outside of the polis.

With kind support: Association Punta Arta, Institut Francais Croatia
Curator: Marina Viculin , Assistant Curator: Ivana Mestrov

Garden Komplot Bruxelles Art Space, Belgium

2 painted signs, 1 Museum of the Day poster, 1 blue painted arm sculpture connected to a tap water source. Komplot Brussels Art Space, Belgium

The work thematizes a wave of terroristic acts in Paris and Bruxelles. It is inspired by a work of Joseph Beuys created about the RAF terror acts by Baader Meinhof suggesting a parallel between a terrorist act and an artistic act. The title refers to a work of the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers who created a series of works featured by the Institution he created himself.

With kind support of Komplot Bruxelles Art Space

Cathay Cinema Entrance Area, Shanghai China

Different voices perform the words Yes and No in various languages inviting the audience to reflect on the ambivalence of a choice or to emphasize on the need to perform an action.

With kind support: Cathay Cinema Shanghai
Curator: Tanara Li