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  • Black Airground -
    A row of three large parachutes were fixed around their perimeter to the floor and continuously inflated with air. A light bulb above each parachute was the only illumination in the installation, and they were individually activated by the pitch and
  • Smokescreen -
    ... behind which the building completely disappeared for a while. Portions of this smoke-screen were white, yellow and black.
  • ...Continuous Sound and Image Moments is a hand-drawn black-and-white animated film loop with no beginning or end. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands of drawings (rather than any individual picture) is the subject of the...
  • Televents
    ... TV sets were made for a television broadcast by the V.P.R.O. For instance, the TV screen was replaced with a white painted black balloon on which film was projected - when the balloon was inflated the white paint and thus the projected image flaked off.
  • ... was seen walking up to the museum window and smashing it with a pickaxe. Or the Venetian blind over the window was closed, blacking out only the projected part of the room.
  • ... In the first Shusaku gave a Buto performance on the edge of a raised circular steel construction within which the image of a black bull was painted on the white floor. A video camera pointed at this situation was connected to a computer in the second room....
  • ...In this work a chrome-plated column stands on a round black terrazzo base inlaid with brass signs representing a Hebraic astrological map. This column has a viewing aperture, two controlling handles, and a pair of loudspeakers. Looking through the opening in the...
  • ... each time addapted to the site architecture. In some cases this ment that the work was shown inside a specially constructed black box - but wherever possible the work was integrated into and made use of the building architecture. For instance at Felix...
  • ... emulates an idealized cylindrical projection system. The vertical edges of the individual projected images are faded to black gradually in order to minimize the visible gaps between adjacent images. The user interface, a modified video camera,...
  • ... death. The image thus recorded exists no longer. Each photographed fragment disappears from the screen and is replaced by a black silhouette. With each click of the shutter, a part of the world is extinguished. Each exposure is then printed out. As soon as...