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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

... an easily ignored carrier of disease and sign of urban cultural malaise—suddenly becomes an animal. The temporary and artificial alteration in the bird’s coloring is enough to bring about its renaturalization....

...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 ritual of the traditional...

... the external world as a blurred mass of people, whose voices merged in an incomprehensible murmur. In this work, the artist serves as the object of an experiment, testing the perceptual and psychological effects of a rotating system in which the...

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

...Landscape Painting shows painted landscapes—a desert scene with cacti and rocks and a jungle scenario. The artist traveled to two locations in Mexico, where he selected an appropriate segment of land and organized a team of local helpers. He paid these helpers to...

This film shows a monochrome landscape beneath a strip of sky. At first barely perceptible, a subtle movement is noted throughout the peaked contours of the waves—an organic contraction and expansion of a mountain-like skin. It is with the congealed

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,

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

...In separate installations of the History Apparatus, the artist planted in each location a stump from a tree that had lived over a hundred years: on the central square of Neumarkt in the town of Arnsberg and on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The...