Skol–Centre des Arts Actuels, Montreal / Canada, 2009
on–site observations at seven public sites,
maps, each 69 x 100 cm (Ger. / Engl.)
Instructions for a Setting
This work was developed in the context of the performance festival VIVA!ArtAction in the programme of Skol–Centre des Arts Actuels. The call for the festival explicitly sought perspectives that connected actions in public space with a reference displayed at the gallery space. For each day of the exhibition I produce a new map. I adapt the layout, legend, format and folding of a standard map by the public transport systeme (STM) of Montreal. The street view is replaced by white space. Each map lists my observations of one public site in simple individual sentences using the imperative form. The coordinates of the location is marked by a dot. Over the course of the exhibition a new map replaces the previous one daily in the exhibition space. Copies of each map are available for $ 9.95 at the counter.
This artist publication was part of the exhibition no-isbn at Leipziger Kunstverein and is still part of the no-isbn collection. It was also shown at Botkyrka Konsthall in context of an exhibition on artist publication curated by Labyrint Press.
