Hold the Line
2000 |Sculpture, Tiergarten, Berlin
«In Hold the Line, the artist transposes her way of creating installations into an urban situation. A few meters from a public phone box, she has built a bench out of thickly bundled, multicolored telecommunication and data transmission cabling.This bare jumble of material destroys any illusion that the transmission of data is an essentially immaterial operation. The bench is on the edge of a vast and busy road, streaming with buses, trams, cars and other forms of transport which characterize a metropolis. The fleetingly ephemeral, hardly tangible essence of this flurry of media is underlined by the presence of phone boxes and letter boxes. Located squarely at the bus stop, the bench offers a seat for those waiting for the bus and a brief interface in the traffic of data and people in a city.» (Nina Güllicher)
Exhibition
2000 Satellit, Z 2000, Berlin-Pavillon, Berlin
- Tiergarten Berlin (Photo:Sonja Feldmeier)
- Tiergarten Berlin (Photo:Sonja Feldmeier)
- Tiergarten Berlin (Photo:Sonja Feldmeier)
«In Hold the Line, the artist transposes her way of creating installations into an urban situation. A few meters from a public phone box, she has built a bench out of thickly bundled, multicolored telecommunication and data transmission cabling.This bare jumble of material destroys any illusion that the transmission of data is an essentially immaterial operation. The bench is on the edge of a vast and busy road, streaming with buses, trams, cars and other forms of transport which characterize a metropolis. The fleetingly ephemeral, hardly tangible essence of this flurry of media is underlined by the presence of phone boxes and letter boxes. Located squarely at the bus stop, the bench offers a seat for those waiting for the bus and a brief interface in the traffic of data and people in a city.» (Nina Güllicher)
Exhibition
2000 Satellit, Z 2000, Berlin-Pavillon, Berlin