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  • Crosstalk -
    'Crosstalk' is a new collaborative interactive performance work by visual artist Simon Biggs, composer Garth Paine, and dance artist Sue Hawksley. Software development by Hadi Mehrpouya. 'Crosstalk' is for two performers whose movement and speech
  • Glitch Traces -
    Images collaged from screengrabs taken during the development of the 'Crosstalk' project in 2013-14. Source: Simon Biggs
  • Punishment 1 -
    The landscape imagery in the photographs and videos of the Punishment series recall the paintings of the Romantic period: craggy mountains, deep gorges, the sea, and mountain lakes. These are large- format, classical motifs of nature, in which one
  • Der Schrei
    A yellow, two-meter-high siren slowly rotates around its own axis and produces a constant, penetrating, cyclical stream of sound that is modulated by the turning of the horn. Its powerful acoustic waves cause objects in the exhibition space to
  • Unusual, bright-colored birds were observed on the Piazza San Marco in the summer of 2012, and in Copenhagen in the same year similar birds were sighted, which largely maintained close proximity to pigeons. When looking at the birds more closely,
  • On a large white platform, the artist has arranged the typical Christmas scenario of his parents’ home: the family members, furniture and carpet from the living room, Christmas decorations, presents, and letters from family members. The annual
  • In a public exhibition space (Art Basel Unlimited), von Bismarck spent a week on a paraboloid-shaped cement disc, which rotated around its own axis at a speed of fifteen revolutions per minute. He slept, ate, read, and talked on the telephone while
  • Boulder I
    Boulder I is a rock that sits upright on a cushion. Walking around the object, the viewer notices that the object had a hole on one side and is actually hollow. On display is therefore not a stone but a stone surface. Given that the eye can only
  • An old wooden boat is suspended from a metal frame like a swing, moving forward and backward in an unnaturally slow and almost imperceptible motion. The boat neither assumes the bouncing rhythm of a wave, nor the smooth alter- nation of a pendulum,
  • Clockwork -
    Twelve concrete mixers are arranged in a circle in the center of a large rectangular space. They form an “erosion machine” designed to accelerate the decay of Vienna. The mixing drums are filled with architectural debris taken from various buildings