siamo tutti noi
The intent of «siamo tutti noi» was to create a meeting plattform for the visitors outside the exhibition window and the inner life of this window. The view into the rooms is intransparent because of an opaque coat.
Just a few little scraped out spots permit a view to the inside - it's a wordless encounter.
Although the persons have been selected under certain criteria, their identity is unknown.. The visitors are invited to «get an idea of the other person».
«siamo tutti noi», schau!fenster, Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Sachseln, 2011-12
LCD Monitors (variable dimensions) / MPEG-Player // Video HD / PAL / colour / endless-loop ©2011
Interview, Evelyne Donno-Temperli, Lucerne 
ALISA
The video shows traces in and around Paris from removed, illegal settlements and / or previously occupied locations, namely images not having found entrance in the public media, but rather the moments after, the remains of the mostly violent evictions. The story is formed from what is not visible, from traces, void spaces and silence.
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Music: Eliane Baggenstos, NY 2011
video projection / 1 sound level // Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 10:56 minutes ©2011
al-Qahira
This video traces different impressions from eleven peripherally located boroughs of Cairo.
The video shows traces from inside buildings and apartments as well from streets, places and yards. It is a walk through new built settlements, gated communities, informal areas and older quarters dating back to the Socialist Period, making the multi-layered society and their different forms of representation visible. The first view enters the interior of private homes, focusing on specific details in close-up images. The second view tracks the walk through the streets, documenting cars, people and restaurants from a waist-high perspective, shot with a moving handheld camera. The last view points on the facades of the buildings, following the structure of the different levels and their design.
All 3 video channels are keyed in specific colors and slightly blurred. We never know where we are exactly, what area we have entered, which flat and which social environment; even when we think we are somewhere familiar, we remain uncertain.
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Music: Eliane Baggenstos, NY 2010
artellewa, space for contemporary art, Giza/Cairo, 2011
3 channels – video projection / 1 sound level // Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 60 minutes ©2010
transverse city
Cairo in miniature. Video loops of different length show small observations within the urban life of Cairo by day and nigh which seem to be noticed en passant. The short loops and the frequent repetition do not really represent the recorded
reality in an objective way. They draw the attention of the viewers to small details, movements, and moments; they emphasize the unspectacular and avoid stereotyped views as well as they admit the hidden, he unseen and the unnoticed.
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Connections, Kunsthalle Luzern, Lucerne, 2011-12
Wall painting with 11-21 LCD monitors 7, 8 or 10” (variable dimensions) // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / endless-loop ©2010/11
mona lisa's getting on...
Quote - Unquote...
«Kopie und Zitat», Alpineum Produzentengalerie and sic! Raum für Kunst, Lucerne, 2010-11
2 LCD monitors 7" with gilt frame // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / 7:54 minutes ©2010
di notte*
Stories and/ or thoughts which are formed at night… Quietly, silently but also restless and often confusing.
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Text: Jana Vanecek / Voice: Anna Katharina Diener
Selection 09, Museum of Art, Aarau, 2009–10
Videoszene Zentralschweiz, o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Lucerne, 2010
CAFE DES REVES, Helmhaus, Zurich, 2011
LCD monitor 40” / 2 headphones / MPEG-Player // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 4:39 minutes ©2009/10 / German (English subtitles)
beautiful home
The six screens show a glimpse into private living spaces; through the window the camera observes the areas in which the tenants and owners withdraw, some of whom have spend part of their day in public.
4 budgerigars sit in their acrylic glass boxes, enclosed, motionless, bored and absolutely see through....
12 figures reduced to their basic body form present themselves in stereotypical poses and eloquent gestures. What they allude to – their home, their private sphere – is not (no longer) visible.
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Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2009
inside out, Kunsthalle Lucerne, 2010
CROSSOVER, Passage 35, Gizah, Egypt, 2010
6 LCD monitors 8“ / 4 LCD monitors 8“ with an open MPEG-Player in an acrylic glass box / 12 plastic figures on an acrylic glass pedestal // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 in 4:3 / colour / stereo / 14 – 35 minutes ©2009
il tran tran
A day in the life of a budgerigar, shown in an endless loop. This type of bird originates from Australia, the first example made it to Europe in 1831 as a stuffed animal.
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Collection, Edition 5, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, 2010
1 LCD monitor 8” with an open MPEG-Player in an acrylic glas box / 1 sound level // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 6:55 minutes ©2009 (limited edition)
Tran Tran #1
Again and again, sometimes faster, though mostly in a steady rhythm the bodies make their rounds.No release from the sometimes senseless daily life.
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4 LCD-monitors 17” in laminated wood // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 3:32 minutes ©2009
slanting lines
A grilled chocolate rabbit, a well camouflaged soldier, endless walking, moments in a flight simulator and other scenes – there is no continuity.
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6 LCD monitors 8” / 1 sound level // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / 0:05 – 11 minutes // audio 11 minutes / Dolby Digital 2.0 looped on DVD ©2008
.CH
My own pictures and sound footage have been woven into a new short story: stereotype, ritualised acts outline the field of tension of authenticity, fiction and cliché..
The soundtrack is a collage of old films, current political debates, literature references – bound and united through their connection to Switzerland.
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Schweiz für alle!, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, 2008
Identité: Suisse – Identität: Schweiz, Centre PasquArt, Biel/Bienne, 2010
Hierig – Heutig. Tradition im Aufbruch, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, 2010
6 LCD monitors 8” / a free standing element of laminated wood / 1 sound level // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / 0:48 – 2:02 minutes // audio 6:41 minutes / Dolby Digital 2.0 looped on DVD ©2008
qui.là.dappertutto
Three short video loops show bodies and movement in enclosed space. The (apparently) continuous repetition of the same thing: stagnation or a state beyond rest, marching on the spot, aimless wandering. Between idling and an endless loop, there is no, hardly any, only the trace of space.
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Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2008
EST - OUEST Project, Espace72, Dison, Belgium, 2010
2 LCD monitors 40” / 1 monitor 19” // video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / without sound / 0:45 – 1:00 minute ©2008
via
5 of the 9 LCD monitors show a person sitting on a chair. Opposite these pictures of waiting, there are 4 landscape pictures: a view of the sea, of the railway tracks, a glimpse of the sky and drops of water, which collect on the lower edge of a steel bar. From time to time, passing trains, planes, ships and thunder interrupt the tranquility and stillness.
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BACKDRAFT, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, 2008
Werkbeiträge von Kanton und Stadt Luzern, Kunstpanorama Lucerne, 2007
9 LCD monitors measuring 10”/12”/15”/20” / 4 sound levels // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 23:37 minutes ©2007
era ieri
The video shows various people in front of a neutral background and in identical, portrait posing situations.
Some glance downwards at a note and then into the camera, others focus on a far away point, then lower their heads. They remember something, it plays in front of their eyes, without speaking.
The 4 audio boxes positioned at head level, tell short stories in which people tell of their daily life
or exceptional experiences in their relationships.
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Selection 07, Museum of Art, Aarau, 2007–08
1 video monitor 19” on a pedestal / 4 active boxes with audio files // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / 11:02 minutes // audio 3:56 – 11:32 minutes / Dolby Digital 2.0 looped on DVD ©2007
look, all my sky is full of comets
The 33 small pictures show freshly married couples in typical photo poses.
A heart-shaped decoration made of Murano glass, which is usually used on wedding cakes, and 5 copies made of icing sugar are placed on cherry wood pedestal and randomly positioned between the pictures. The writing on the wall shows 2 names in substitution for the many wedding couples, in slightly kitchy colours and style.
landpartie, Zurich, 2007
Writing (pink foil) / 33 pictures on canvas 13 x 13 cm / 1 heart-shaped decoration made of Murano glass / 5 replicas out of icing sugar / 6 cherry wood pedestal
yes, hundred and hundred of stars/nights/cigarettes/horizons…
101 small pictures, transformed into fine brushstroke
drawings, show freshly married couples in poses in which they present themselves in the daily press. The most wonderful day of their lives seamlessly aligns itself with only slight changes in gestures and body language to the next one:
Mass-produced, ridiculous and stereotypical, and yet so nice.
The videos show exterior and interior rooms in an urban settlement, the camera feels the façade,
endlessly turning in the sterile crossroad of the corridor.
Galerie Repfergasse 26, Schaffhausen, 2007
101 pictures on canvas 13 x 13 cm / 1 wall projection with sound level / 3 LCD monitors 15” // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 11:31 – 22:16 minutes ©2007
particella #I
In the video installation there are 2 monitor-units facing each other showing the colourful façade of an urban settlement in Tehran and the interior of the houses.The camera turns endlessly, positioned slightly off-centre, in the crossroad of the sterile corridor. 9 monitors placed together to form a block, show the empty cave-like passageways from various angles. The sterility is interrupted only by the voices and short appearances of the residents coming and going.
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10 monitors 15” / 3 LCD monitors 26” / 3 sound levels // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 5:00 – 21:12 minutes ©2007
particella #II
The video installation, comprising 4 LCD monitors, show s the house façade of a gigantic urban
settlement in Tehran, contrasting the interior of the building at a right angle. The view rotates endlessly on its own axis in the empty, devoid of people intersection of the corridors. Only voices hint that people live behind the doors.
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CROSSOVER, Passage 35, Gizah, Egypt, 2010
Double projection in the corner of the room / 4 LCD monitors 26” / 1 sound level // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 11:31 – 22:16 minutes ©2007
particella #III
The façade of an urban settlement in Iran can be seen on 4 video channels. The films, taken on 4 consecutive nights last 20 minutes and were filmed from the same camera perspective. The narrow private sphere is extended into the public room; the minimal insight reveals rhythms and patterns.
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CROSSOVER, Passage 35, Gizah, Egypt, 2010
Annual Exhibition of Artists from Central Switzerland 2009, Museum of Art, Lucerne
4 LCD monitors 32” // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 in 16:9 / colour / without sound / 20 minutes ©2007 / overworked version ©2009
L'Art de Vivre à Shanghai
4 video channels show, on the one hand a women in different positions of movement, and on the other the preparation for a concert, without however, the final performance. These films were taken during the «Années Culturelles Croisées Chine et France». In the background one can hear the real sounds of a department store during the presentation of «L’Art de Vivre à Shanghai».
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Selection 04, Museum of Art, Aarau, 2004–05
Tankställe, Malters, 2006
4 channels – video projection / 1 sound level / red carpet // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour/ stereo / 2:46 – 7:18 minutes ©2004
bel*vedere
The monitors are positioned in 3 rows on the wall. The videos all show the same façade, which was filmed periodically over a year. The alignment of the monitors and the position of the videos below one another are roughly equivalent to the three-dimensional situation in reality. The calm, freeze-frame like extracts hover on the edge between private and public space. A camera pans across the whole façade and reveals the whole building in a restless sweeping view.
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Selection 05, Museum of Art, Aarau, 2005–06
CROSSOVER, Passage 35, Gizah, Egypt, 2010
5 – 7 LCD monitors 17” (variable dimensions) / 2 sound levels // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour/ stereo / 1:45 – 5:30 minutes ©2005
Public Art - Gleis70
The different terraces are connected to one another by their design. The accessible areas are covered with stone slabs and gravel. A few small, connected areas are linked to form a net structure. Between these areas a rampant, hilly green area in the prevailing colours yellow, white, blue, red has been designed.
Conceptual development and design advice
On behalf of the cooperative building commission Gleis 70, Zurich 2006 –2008
Concept: Sabina Baumann, Daniel Herman, Isabel Rosa Müggler, Chantal Romani
tanken tanken tanken / TAKE AWAY
As part of the project «tanken tanken tanken», «TAKE AWAY» shows both kiosks being taken apart right down to the floor plan. Thus reducing the petrol station, as a landmark in the landscape, to its striking roofs. The interior of the buildings and their floor plans remain on the ground as clearly visible traces.
Various, reconstructed and put into service elements, marked with the words «TAKE AWAY», suggest from a distance an operational petrol
station. (All the projects undertaken with M Rüegg)
tanken tanken tanken, public art project, Rhäzüns 2003 – 2006
TAKE AWAY, public art intervention, Rhäzüns 2004
travelouge, Projektraum exex, Visarte Ost, St. Gallen, 2004
on the road.Still, Arge Europafestival, Drosendorf, Austria 2004
Information:www.tankentankentanken.ch // www.wortwerk.ch/travelogue //www.kakanien.ac.at
fragum.net / fragum*net
fragum.net is a website which is based on models of real constructions and simulates gardens in urban living areas.
fragum.net, 2003–2008
For the exhibitions an interactive offline version of fagum.net was developed. Via computer, up to 3 slide shows as well as audio functions could be controlled and the pictures rearranged.
Sound: Eliane Baggenstos / Lingo Programming: Tobias Waldmeier
Fortsetzung Folgt, Toni-Areal, Zurich, 2003
espace libre, Biel/Bienne, 2003
Kunstkredit 2003, Holcim Halle, Aargauer Kuratorium, Aarau
electric rendez-vous, plug.in Basel, 2003
Zweite Nachspielzeit, FUGE, Zurich, 2003
Internet site (2003–08)
1–3 slide projectors / 1 computer / 1–3 standing boxes covered with a carpet of lawn / 1 sound level
ricchezza
The four free-standing screens form a walk-in room. The videos all show films taken simultaneously: thunder and lightening, filmed from the same spot but with a differently adjusted zoom lens. Slowly and steadily raindrops collect on the end of the railing, clouds of fog pass by in the background, interrupted by thunder and drumming of rain.
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4 channels – video projection / 4 sound levels // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 1:39 – 7:25 minutes ©2005
emerge #1
A double projection in to the corner of a room creates the image of over-dimensional feet continually passing the camera. Due to the reflection, new patterns are continually being formed.
Double projection in to the corner // video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 7:30 minutes ©2001
2001
Various modal planes fly in front of a window; identical in type and make to all the planes, which for various reasons crashed in 2001. Upon closer examination of the planes tiny deliberate mistakes can be detected. The small metal planes on the floor belong to all the airlines whose planes never managed to leave the airport for a variety of reasons in the same year.
Installation #1, Luwa Areal, Zurich 2002
12 Modal and metal planes / booklet
Photography, be^fore (Selection)
Selection / 50x36 cm / 2002-08
Photographs of situations on façades, on balconies, in entrances to houses, and stairwells. Traces of individual «design», a glimpse of private conversations, different views.
Series: running since 2002
Helmhaus, Zurich, 2012
Malzfabrik, Berlin, 2011
Galerie Baviera, Zurich, 2008
Mega jet on aluminium or C-print / 80 x 92 cm / 50 x 36 cm / 75 x 54 cm
Single-Channel Videos (Selection)
04 06 08
Irland 2004, Iran 2006 und New York 2008. As different as the journeys and motives were – in the end everything fails in place by the sound.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 8:00 minutes ©2010
badaboom #1
October 2008 on Wall Street in New York – the stock market and its associated system fall… lower and lower…
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Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 0:56 minutes ©2009
badaboom #2
October 2008 on Wall Street in New York – more and more, faster and faster and with rising fear – and then a bit of twist…
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Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 0:54 minutes ©2009
badaboom #3
October 2008 on Wall Street in New York - the third and last part of the BADABOOMS. A colourful, undefinable and impenetrable blend…
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Video miniDV / PAL / 16:9 / colour / stereo / 0:59 minutes ©2009
era ieri
The video shows different people looking downwards at a note and then into the camera others partly focus on a far away point, then lowering their heads. They remember something, it plays in front of their eyes, without speaking. The sound has been cut from a variety of films and then combined together – the voices whisper to one another…
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 5:04 minutes ©2008
symphonique
A Chinese symphony that appears to stop when it should in fact begin. Filmed at the «Années Culturelles Croisées Chine et France».
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 2:40 minutes ©2004
seiryoku zenyo II
With strength and ease, in coordinated postures and sequences of movement, a woman demonstrates moments between movement and
stillness, always concentrating on the moment.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 1:57 minutes ©2004
shirshasna
A position in which the blood flows to the brain – in this way the mind becomes fresh and clear.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 5:11 minutes ©2004
seiryoku zenyo
Two girls prepare themselves for their fight. This video shows moments of concentration shortly before the action.
seiryoku zenyo – the optimum exploitation of energy.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 2:40 minutes ©2003
tanz dem fussball
The football World Cup 2002. The video shows excerpts of youths of varying nationalities playing football in a Swiss
residential area – time-delayed and pulsing rhythmically. The soundtrack played backwards awakes emotional moments of football games.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 5:05 minutes ©2002
a_ nach b
Two levels – a and b – in which the video starts and ends at the same time, superpose one another. The beginning of the first is the ending of the second and vice versa. In between lay about 200 meters, approximately 14 hours and an ordinary day.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 2:02 minutes ©2002
unter_wegs
The attempt to show «on the move» by means of condensing time and space into less than 2 minutes. Observe the hustle and bustle of traffic and people, accompany and yet withdraw from the gazing eyes.
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Video miniDV / PAL / 4:3 / colour / stereo / 2:02 minutes ©2001
emerge #2
Feet constantly walk past the camera. Due to the axial symmetry
reflection, kaleidoscopic patterns appear constantly in which the shoes overlap, disappear and recede from one another.
Monotone and stereotypes keep the beat.
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