1020 Vienna, AUT
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Alibi n (=E∞)
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Giessen
A filmed film and space installation, 2004 - in collaboration with Bernhard Herbordt.

A surveillance cabinet, that is monitoring itself - until the observer finds himself in a space behind reality, accessible through the sight-shadows in his field of view. The installation models a space out of fragments, out of calculation errors in its reconstruction and (spatial) mapping. A space that eludes its colonization. A space not construed for presences, but absences, subverting its own reality. In the folds and sight-shadows of the surveillance facility traces and findings of discoverers and colonists, fieldworkers and forgers have been inscribed. As a contradictory ensemble these artefacts form a time-transcending figure between Piri Reis (Ottoman cartograph who drew a map of the Antarctic already in 1512), Lynceus (the scout of the Argonauts), Christopher Columbus and Gouverneur Leutwein.