Uncertainty

Uncertainty
2009 - Intel Mac running OS-X 10.5, custom software

Fully functional out of focus web browser.

Freeze revisited

Freeze revisited
with Valentin Beinroth
2009 - water, food color, flavours (coke, black currant, licorice, cherry), counter top freezer

Edible ice guns handed out to visitors.

Kindly supported by Lounge Frankfurt.

503

Video: Rotraut Pape

503
2007 - skip container, VW beetle

Container sind Gebrauchsgegenstände: funktional, ungeschönt und irgendwie ehrlich. Eine kompromisslose Form, die sich an DIN-Normen hält und in RAL-Farben daher kommt. Ihre Anwesenheit ist temporär: scheinbar tauchen sie über Nacht auf, füllen sich und verschwinden wieder.

Die Arbeit "503" spielt mit einer ambivalenten Ästhetik des Funktionalen. Das Mobil sieht aus wie eine Mischung aus einem Nutz- und einem Militärfahrzeug. Es ist gross, kantig, fahrbar und man thront in ihm über den Dingen, ein real gewordener Jungentraum, ein "Jungsding".

Supported by:
IG Schwazzelabbefett, ESO Offenbach, Familie Puck

Weekends

Weekends
2005 - ink on paper

Unscharf Maskieren

Unscharf Maskieren / Unsharp Mask
2006 - mixed felt-tip pens on A4 office paper

The Old And The Weak

The Old And The Weak / Die Alten und die Kranken
2004 - sticker on front door of the Goethe Institute of Athens

When i made this drawing Mickey Mouse (born 1928) just had it's 75th anniversary. He's always been one of my least liked figures by Disney since he's so super serious, overly smart, always in control and somewhat uncool.

The ancient greek considered the owl to be the bird of wisdom. As Burghart Schmidt lays out in the introduction to the exhibitions catalog (*), wisdom is not smartness, it's something far more original, it's not about being able to add things up, it's an understanding coming from deep within.

(*) David Borchers, "emporter des femmes a paris", Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-921 997-48-8

Strange Vehicles

Strange Vehicles
2004, digital drawings, laserprint on office paper

Freeze

Freeze
with Valentin Beinroth
2003 - water, black inks

Over a period of several hours Valentin Beinroth and Florian Jenett placed about 50 handgun replicas in downtown Frankfurt. The guns were made from tinted ice, making them look real at first sight. The two created realistic situations, leaving the replicas behind as if they were lost or dumped.

WÜ-ZP-200

WÜ-ZP-200
2003 - carboard, tape, Toyota Corolla station wagon

Back in the mid-90s, Florian Jenett wanted to go Can-Am racing. Never one to let obstacles dismay him, he ignored people that told him, “You can’t afford to go racing on a German artist’s salary” or “Can-Am racing died in 1974.” Instead, he put together the Corolla-based racecar you see here. Complete with a homemade K&N filter conversion (necessitating a hood bulge) and sans catalytic converter, it was capable of over 100mph — at which speed its handling became unpredictable. – Wes Siler

Freies Training

Training Run / Freies Training
2002 - site specific video installation
DVD Pal - Loop with sound - 4:37 min

The installation is about spaces that tell a story that can't easily be read anymore, about ordinary rooms and the phases they go through in their time of being. It's about moving into a new place and asking yourself where all these small stains and marks come from that former residents left behind.

The weariness of the exhibition space immediately raised the question about what might have happened in there. I could see someone dropping a cup of coffee and leaving a stain on the carpet, there were workers tearing open walls to repair the plumbing. Whatever i was about to do here, i will and have to leave my own stains behind, mark these rooms.

For a while i wanted to have my own private indoor-skatepark. The rooms, being on the fifth floor, were perfect for that since i would be able to look outside and down on the streets and houses while skating.

The video was cut in a way to on one hand give hints by sound and image but on the other support the room with a soundtrack. It's nearly musical character, partly being totally silent, partly having a rhythm, was like an abstract picture of the time i spent in the rooms. A temporary mark that would go hand-in-hand with the stains my skateboard-wheels left on the walls.

Fast Funk

Fast Funk
2002 - event - 4 radio transmitters, pocket radios + bandeaus

Upon entry of the FastFunk Lounge visitors were given small pocket sized radios with attached bandeaus. A short video introduction was given on how to use the radios. After setting up the radios the visitors were able to receive one of our four "FF-Channels" which were transmitted from within the space as "unofficial" radio stations. Each of the channels had it's own content, FF1 was the information-channel, sending the bar's menu, the evenings timetable and general information about the FastFunk event. FF2 was an "Open Mic" installed in a small private room with a karaoke machine and an immense internet songbook. Two lectures were held from this room during the evening. FF3 was constantly reading out names from visitors of a previous event at the same location. On channel FF4 a live DJ program was send providing for tunes to fill the dancefloor.

FF-Team: Adam Drobiec, Carolin Brandl, David Borchers, Elisa Jolas, Florian Jenett, Johanna Piltz, Julia Lein, Kathrin Desch, Matthias Stelz, Natalia Zlateva, Sascha Langer, Ulrike Goll

Renntiere

Sporty Animals / Renntiere
2000 - archival inkjet prints (~A3) of digital drawings

Strebergarten

Viruses

Virus cards
1999 - laser print on office paper

For a while i've been collecting names of biological and computer viruses. I was interested in how these clever organisms would be named by us, their real and virtual hosts and vehicles.

Phishing At The River Of News, detail 2

Detail of Phishing At The River Of News recorded on 2009-11-29 from Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Splitterköpfe

Losing Your Head / Splitterköpfe
2000 - laserprint on office paper

Phishing At The River Of News, detail

Detail of Phishing At The River Of News recorded on 2009-11-29 from Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Allheilmittel

The Universal Remedy / Allheilmittel
2000 - archival inkjet prints

Medical illustrations sampled and "wrongly" reassembled.

Lost Birds

Lost Birds
2003 - archival inkjet prints (~A3, ~A2) of digital drawings

Phishing At The River Of News, documentation

Documentation of Phishing At The River Of News.

Hell-Dunkel

Black Eats White
2000