2000 T & o go to Bregenz at the end of september. to de-install spacePLACE, to visit famely'n friends and to think about what to propose and do in UNIDEE, where they'll go after a trip to the "famous Zumthor-bath" in Vals, Switzerland. Madin and Beetli invite them to come. Madin is Beetlis boyfriend and Beetl omis cousin....what a valley, what a village! the bath is much better than the homepage promised, but not as good as so many people toled us. not at all. the water is great, entering water is like entering a feeling. but why do all newbuild elements have these radical angular and rough shapes and make the feeling harder as the water asks for? you can take your life while relaxing on one of the borders of the bath's and cut your neck. doesn't water ask for round shapes, soft corners? or does Zumthor want that the water makes softshapes with time (almost everything made out of slate)? lets come back in 200 years. well, the hotel is funny, sometimes even pretty, expansive...we reservated a room which was "renovated by the architect": like sleeping in a design museumshop - table from Grey, chair from van der Rohe, bed by Zumthor... but everything is okay after we have the first meal. they know how to cook here! 3 days chilling out in rosebud water in the foggy valley of Vals. the moody russian waitress transforms the ambient in a kind of postsovietic science fiction. but the best architecture we saw was a little chapel in the last curve before leaving the village.. cyberhelvetia.ch - still secret, still evolving in a closed circuit will be a parallel project while we will work in UNIDEE. and AETHER3 - the project from Penelope Wehrli, you remember? Penelope invited us and 9 more (like Kyong Park from Detroit, Milla Zoufall from Berlin, N55 from Kopenhagen or Stefan Muenker from Berlin too...) to talk on the phone about questions like "for what would we fighting for?", "do we have 'utopias'?". these talks will be "shown" in Munich in an ex atom reactor somewhen in january 2001. the cyberhelvetia.ch (cybe) our job is dealing with the question how to present cybe in real life within the swiss expo.02 ex- hibitions, which will open spring 2002. with martin, one of the bosses of belleville, who is behind the cybeproject, we agree to have weekly mail-, chat- and telephone sessions. every week we will give feedbacks and inputs in order to find ideas and a first concept till end of october. Luks and Ricardo will partizipate the process from Spain. arriving in cittadellarte, first week of october. incredible rain storms the night before, when we stoped in a small town near the lago maggiore. heavy showers sounds like big fire. when we arrive Tal, Steffen, Biju, Yoav and Esther are playing volley in citta's yard. a strange sceleton hangs on a rope which is crossing the whole yard. Lyn, another Zero, is here since a month. the following month will last a year! so many people, questions, reasons for parties! the "cooperation" with Tal Adler ended quick. too much things and speculations between us. check out his collectors item #52! october in headlines: fresh chaos and order, "the university of ideas" is born, but only few people seem to realise it. opening of Eytan Shoukers PENPAL project, and son's & fathers within the context of THE BORDER. every week working on cybe too, Benoit Roussel runs a "cinč club", every wendsday in the performance space. [Alberto from Veracruz-Mexico writes an e-mail. he saw communimage in Mexico ciudad and liked it. now he wants to write an article about the project in a fanzine he's doing there. Johannes sends him two posters from the new years image we did almost a year ago.] we present to Michelangelo the idea to make a kind of magazine for UNIDEE, he likes it, we start right away. the same work (files) we can use later on to do the web site. the magazine wants to be radically visual, images and URL's. probably just on CD and mainly for the a.i.r (artists in residence) - like a very visual adressbook.... Michelangelo will do the next artistic direction of BIG TORINO 2002 (page from 2000) the bienal of Turin! he asks us if we want to work with him for the concept and...yes, sounds very interesting, but we have to talk to Luks first... end of october - revolution - two days where everybody puts everything on the table in UNIDEE. but the table stays almost empty - evolution. Teresa and omi stay some more days, after all a.i.r. and zeros left, to talk with Michelangelo about next year. mainly about how we can conect the exhibitions more to the contents of UNIDEE. this year it was like a contradiction: to invite for "heterodox art", but presenting "orthodox art". we'll work out a proposal when we all are back home in mothership... now we talk about our last subject for this time: the piece for Bolzano. together with Michelangelo Teresa and omi talk and imagine about a window, which can change position and view, attitude and content. we will continue the talk by e-mail and telephone, its geting late - ciao amici, ciao, we stay in contact... but now >> fast forward > nevertheless T & o need a week for the 1500 miles. time gets slower, but seems faster, when you are tired and travelling. <-- page -->