Apparatus

Ursula Kiesling and Maki Stolberg

ESC im Labor im steirischen herbst | September/Oktober 2006 Intermediate Spaces Apparatus - IEFS: Ursula Kiesling and Maki Stolberg interactive installation, opening 23.09.2006 (until 15.10.2006) 2x2m Installation: mirror, tv, dvd, foto camera, self timer, red floor covering, div. material For the time of the participation, the apparatus offers the freedom of art for self portayal via remote control. Results and continuation of the IEFS survey 6.-12.11.2006, Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana ,,Zwischen zwei drähten taucht auch irgendein kleiner funken auf." "Between two wires somewhere there also appears a small spark." (edward krasinski) With the investigation and presentation of an artists organisation ("mitgliedererhebung /member census" 2005 - 2006) the IEFS made its beginning: an attempt to document internal relations/networks, and to use a common space with placeholders. During the "kirschblütenprojekt" 2006 the focus lay on the compilation of these intermezzi/intermediate spaces/ interactions that accompany the coming about/failure of a group exhibition. For Intermediate Spaces at ESC we install an apparatus picturing our working methods as well as the visitors/observers/participants and possibly all personell involved. Terms like attempt, apparatus, compilation, census point to the notion of using (pseudo)scientific methods in order to use their unresistable power of persuasion for our purposes. Measurements of all kind, image creating and statistic practices, interviews, observing participation, etc are being deployed in order to make invisble effects of the trias artist observer material accesible to ratio and perception.