2000 back on the green coast! some days of just breathing and walking, sleeping...first of all we do the new UNIDEE-site. studio2 was growing well! Luks and Alvaro managed the new steps. Casqueiro looks better then ever! Ricardo does the presentation concept for the "spirit level". in cittadellarte we met Mark Bain - the fantastic soundman! we asked him if he could help us to do the technical sound part of the piece. Mark didn't see any problem and sends us a plan, which is based on hydrophones. some days later, after Curt sends the construction plans he made with a swiss artist blacksmith, we send the plans to AUA EXTREMA -> sorry just deutsch. would be great if they want to realise our idea - the money we could put directly into the progress of studio2! Ricardo made a streetsign for the park for L.A. thats good - a little step to make clearer that we got a playground in our center. next year we definitly want to continue the parkwork - some benches, a fireplace, a projection-wall, water, light... we are working on the second step for the new universitiy in Bolzano...impossible to imagine something real, because we still can't do the model of the space - the architects are still moving walls and changing details...but we write a basic concept which clearly shows the direction of our installation - working title: r e a l i t y v e r s u s l i f e . university is "reality", outside the windows and doors is "life" and in between is our piece. a bridgepiece again, versuspiece...our first project with time and a real budget (60.000.000 Lire), 2004 it should be done - and: start! yippiiii - they selected the spirit level to be realised! we get a phonecall from Javier, a profesor in Bilbaos faculdad de bellas artes. Soto, who studies there made the contact. Javier invites us to do the last speach, in a serie of speaches, about our way of (net)working. okay - we'll be there on the 21st of december, fine - we always wanted to know Bilbao better! another aether-call. Penelope and Kyra choose in this 4th and last round who talks to whom - omi talks again with Stefan Muenker from Berlin. thats perfect, he would have chosen also him...again a pleasure to listen and talk to Stefan. we talk about god and dog, world and ownworld, how we can imagine that good ideas or projects can reach more stupidity and drowsiness of people. from the subject to the project (Villem Flusser). we agree that we need a fresh and full portion of humility. omi decides what Mila Zoufall proposes in another talk - to avoid the term ARBEIT (work). horrible word! and used in such senses that it doesn't make sense anymore. but how else can we call it? SPIELEN (play)? sounds much too FUN, too american way of can...SCHAFFEN (create)? too pathetic? anyway - but this could heal a bit: to recognize that every desiccion is a "creative act" and therefore we are humans and re-spons-ible. we are dialogical animals learning to express and impress, all life long. what else? work becomes network (Benoit Roussel). Richard Jochum lets us know that dis-positiv worked well in Bregenz, he'll send us some of the magazine he did in addition. Johannes calls.. he tells us from a new project he wants to do during the world economic forum in Davos and asks us if we want to join - do the interface. yes! the project is called HELLO MR. PRESIDENT and the idea is to throw with a laser projector massages which arrive by sms and through a web-site onto a hill next to the place where all the mister presidents have their talkes. 160 signs, running letters, like a huge (<-150m->) "open Jenny Holzer board"... its still not fixed, Johannes talks tomorrow with a president from the swiss TV, in order to win them as a sponsor for the project. Eva, miss president of the association of the local. retail trade ASACUNA and owner of Navias fashion shop ESCANDALO, calls and wants us to make a concept for a protest action they want to do from Vegadeo till Luarca. they want to act against the big stores groups, which are planning to build mega malls along the cantabrian coast. we don't like megamalls in small town or villages, and agree o develop an idea till next week. when we talk about how these places would look like in the worth mega mall case, we imagine all little stores closed, no windows, but bricks... we propose > to not work activly with massmedia, save all the money for the actions in the associated villages and towns. > to concentrate in "closing" all stores for a week of the pequeño comercio (retail trade): all stores from Vegadeo at the galizian border till Luarca, 50km in the east (around 500) should be visually closed for 7 days with grey brick paper. all windows, all shops. just the doors stay open. inside all stores its darker, the streets look cramped - science megamall fiction... > to inform just the massmedia, politicians, etc., not the. people, > to make special events in each shop during the whole week and a big conclusion fiesta on the last day. sunday night all wall-papers will be removed from all windows, back to the usual view. we calculated that we have to print 10.000x1m of brick paper. if they accept our concept we'll show it soon on calcaxy. as it was art. brickchristo. soon they'll have a meeting and decide which proposal they want to realise (another two firms will present an idea). short before we leave to Bilbao we present ours to Eva. she likes it! she'll let us know in 5 days what the meeting brought...when we will be back from Bilbao. <-- page -->