Execution Box

09-2008 ⁄ Project

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Mixed media installation at shortlist exhibition of Columbus Art Sponsorship Project 2008, Columbus Art Foundation, HALLE 14 at Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany, September 5th - October 26th, 2008, 700 x 350 x 200 cm

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The installation Execution Box formally relates to public parking slots where prostitutes and their customers can have undisturbed sex inside of a car.

Inside the exhibition space, I constructed a set of 4 Boxes, each containing a special scene. Box 1 has an art space socket with a nervous disco light effect on it. The ground is covered with a dirty carpet taken from the Computer Games Fair 2008 in Leipzig.
Box 2 is filled with well preserved building materials taken from the Computer Games Fairs  waste container. (Thus I’m abusing the exhibition ground as a private storing space for materials I might have use for someday.) Box 3 contains a condom automat and an emergency stop button to turn off the disco light in Box 1 temporarily.
Box 4 shows a battered lectern surrounded by grey walls. Out of the lectern comes a monotonous computer voice, ironically commenting all the other art works of this exhibition in audio guide style.

The real "Execution Boxes" in Cologne and Dortmund

The real "Execution Boxes" in Cologne and Dortmund

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