installation
50 drawings ink on paper,
1 worker’s coat with a logo,
an artist’s book - the modified exhibition catalogue,
and video film – a tour around the show made in situ
Collection René Block-Berlin
After being preoccupied for years with the question of who goes to see and who pays for the shows he is part of, the artist finally got a chance to spend 7 weeks out of the 13 weeks run of the show of contemporary art from the Balkans titled “In the Gorges of the Balkans” and curated by René Block in the Friedericianum in Kassel, 2003. Doing for hours each day his Schadenfreude Guided Tours – performative lectures about the art works in the show made in the space of the exhibition, the artist was animating and uniting the works and the space for the audience. The resulting works – a video tape documenting a tour; the artist’s book – the catalogue annotated and covered with drawn and collaged comments; the coat used as a uniform; and the 50 drawings – letters to the other artists, are a special kind of testimony where the memory of a single yet huge show is preserved and kept by/with the work of one of its participants.