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1999
newnow --> 18-08-99 casqueiro - blue-white-windy coincidence-sky - omi and Teresa have been traveling and installing calc-satellites or presenting calc, Silke and Luks stayed in casqueiro, working mostly on the new CI for the Hospital de Jarrio
and on WEBILD, which became the communimage in the meantime. and has been officially online since june - growing like hell!
Silke? Supersilki who arrived in april, two weeks before Teresa and omi left... will stay till september and be our first real assistant! she landed in Oviedo when Esther from skim.com was here. (www zürich you know, wired by the roth-brothers..) Esther came to chillout and to recharge their spanish, in all senses.
april - Teresa and omi leave for switzerland, where they meet marCo Koeppel, to build with him the "artbud" or DROPone, as we call the "architecture" for IL ARTE AL CENTRO 99. we can treat the material with more experience this year and everything works better than we had imagined. the DROPone-tentsystem was done in two days (thanks to the people from the EISHALLE WIDNAU! and to TIMEcloud).
a lot of tunnels - a lot of digimages
we visit Rudolf Sagmeister in the KUB and bring him a little surprise: a poster-grid composed with webcam images we downloaded a year from KUB's lifecam. he likes it so much, that we decided to do a print series to sell... you can order it online or download it for free and print it yourself. our life and webfriend Evi Rüscher (who also did the new KUBsite) helps us to do the QX-file...
our plans for the OK-Linz changed radically. the spaces we wanted were wanted by other people and in the end we got the three rooms we wanted at last...
although we almost gave up... but then the orange tree from near Las Aceñas inspired us and like a fresh rain the idea was born: a park for L.A.
we like a lot how the idea of a swapspace swapped itself to another level of expression. the three rooms start to look good to us.
we visited the tree every day untill our last day in Casqueiro, took digi-images of him in many different skymoods and lights. we leave with 300 mega orange-images. .
and also with essence-of-orange-oil - by chance we met Arturo and Isabel, an inventor and a philosopher, who bought a huge old farmhouse in our neighbourhood! 15 years ago Arturo invented a kind of Mosquito-killer. we can use the prototype of his invention to spray a fine orange-essence-cloud into the central-room of our Linz-installation every 15 minutes.
when Paolo tells us that N55 from Kopenhagen is also participating and that they are planning to install a "hydroponic unit" in the corridor next to our work, we ask them if we should plant orange seeds there. they send a nice mail back and some days later later we send the seeds to copenhagen, where N55 is planting them. when they arrive in Linz some leaves will be showing...
the OK-Linz - we never worked in a house with such professional and open people! we can close doors like they were never there and open new ones like they've never been closed. thanks to Georg Seyfried, Eva Immervoll and their ideas and technical crew we will open a show on the 21st of May!
we've been looking forward to for a long time
Paolo did a really good catalog:
LKW - THINGS BETWEEN LIFE, KUNST (ART)& WORK LEBENSKUNSTWERKE
it can be ordered directly from the OK...or
ISBN : 3 - 8 5 4 1 5 - 2 5 2 - 3
and right away the Linz-LKW gets invited by the KUB (for summer 2000) and by the new KUNSTHAUS in Biel (for autumn 2000)! we, and also Ross Sinclair and Faisal Abdu'allah want to make something completely new for those houses. but calc will follow the orange line...
Cecilla from N55 points out that in a "california" L.A. context the oranges industry makes big social problems. we didn't know, we will get more information about it! we used the name L.A. only to point out the changing of significance between "centers" and places like Las Aceñas...
Silke sends every thursday a "life-image" from L.A. to the Linz museum entrance. these images show the process and changes of the piece of closed-land in the center of Las Aceñas. the printer will stay for one year in Linz - last image will arrive on the 18th of May 2000."
luks sends a great image from the new goathouse they just finished!
between Linz and Biella, where we soon will install DROPone, omi goes to Weimar and Berlin, Teresa back to Widnau. Weimar - so many Goethe and Schillers! they cloned them in all kind of materials and they are behind every corner. and more places than that! but no time to meet statues - students are waiting! the little calc-speach omi does in this gallery (Esther - sorry, but what was its name?) was a "success". nobody left before it was finished. and Steffen Wolfrum and Esther (oops, and what was your name??) from the cultural association HERZBLUT are very nice people. they get married a few days after omi leaves.
while omi goes to Berlin one day after to visit the KUNSTWERKE, Teresa clears up one of the last details for the DROPone-tentsystem:
the little rubber rings that fix the fine aluminium tubes much better than the the scotch-tape we used last year for TIMEcloud.
Berlin! Mitte! just Mitte and KUNSTWERKE, thats enough for now. a lot of digital images of the yard where they wanted the SCHLAFHAUS and we will propose a new system for "A FLEXIBLE PROJECT-OFFICE", as soon they give us an offcial invitation. maybe for 2001. next year we can't do another bigship, it's booked up.
Ellen Blumenstein, the right hand of mister Biesenbach, is very friendly and let omi see the yard from all windows and views. Dan Graham did a great glass-cubes-restaurant-architecture in the same yard. Ross Sinclair already told us in Linz about the problems of installing something next to it... it's true?...lets see...
communimage goes online officially. Luks and Silke work on the design-side, Malex and Roger on the programming-side. they finished the interface and some other onliners, like Johannes, Gilo, omi; Teresa...we decide to not start with "Image Zero", but to leave what showed up during the testphase. Johannes had the good idea to ask mister Picard, who just globed around the world! but naaah, Picard has no time to do a firstpatch, he's sponsed out...the pope neither, didn't even answer the telephone...
first bildbauern are patching quiet pitchpatch. SITO and some semi- under-cover agents from high-grid (THE ORIGINAL!) start a minipolemic in the message board...reverent Ian Feldglocke brings the hotheads with warm words to listen to reason!
but in Biella! we are the first. where are all the others? we arrived the day when Michelangelo had four bottles of wine to decide which wine will be the IL ARTE AL CENTRO-wine. we try and try and decide too late, all bottles are empty, weren't they all very good?
"ooo life is sooo beautiful" sings Michelangelo, and we are happy to be here!
the next days we find time to talk about the invitation for vienna.
we imagine to install oneDROP - Segno Arte in vienna, a combination of DROPone and Michelangelos Segno Arte. we want to do a little online- programm which allows to draw and save his Segno Arte on a single netlinked c-station. in the kunsthalle-Wien these Segnos can be printed out every morning and put to walls, where the Segno Arte-memory grows also in "real-space"...
but first we have to install and make the experience of DROPone! only a few days and the "Artists in Residence" are coming! and we also want to help the Pistolettos to take control and responsibility over the 5 c-stations they just ordered... a pleasure to put in DROPone, we have to call marCo right away, we all imagined because of the spaceheight it would not stand up, but its flexibility stands up almost by itself!
the "A.i.R." are coming, one after the other! Teresa does a great job and finally all stations and the net works! and the place is crowded: CITTADELLARTE opens officially!