We
arrived in Odense (DK) 3 days before our performance and installation opening
in the Kunsthalle (29.11 - 03.12.1997) . We surveyed our rooms borrowed
furniture and odds and ends for our 'equator: hackers paradise' installation.
We had a partition wall built to divide the " ØtherLands" from the
older "Arctic Circle" video,
email slide show and image installation.  
We built 3 'hacker's chairs' for Florian, Udo and Philip (Felix wasn't
present) - the usual provisional workstations we always make when we're
uploading and installing from anywhere (ØtherWhere) on the road
- to use, and to leave behind as our trace for visitors. The festival also
featured Cardiophone from Hamburg, Peter Land from Denmark, as well as
artists Carolee Scheeman, Allison Knowles, Ben Patterson from America,
and Alastair Maclennon from Ireland... |
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*[Left
and Above]: Philip, Florian and Udo burning paper laptop and mobile phone
objects in the gallery. The objects were made in Singapore during August,
the month of the ghosts, and were burned in a pseudo-Feng Shui manner at
a point in the gallery where the paths between entrances and exits through
doors (and windows) met, as a offering to the ghosts, and a cleansing for
good luck with our technology. As it turned out we had no technical glitches
during the three day festival. |
 
*[Above]:
Installation views - "ØtherLands hacker's chairs"*
[Right]:
"ØtherLands hacker's chairs (2 - 3)"
*[Below]:
More "ØtherLands" installation views. |
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